Podcast appearances and mentions of Liam Young

The golden age of sci-fi was filled with utopian visions the future. These days, when sci-fi creators project ahead several decades, the world is looking a lot more dystopian. But there is a group of artists who believe that a better tomorrow is possible if we can imagine it first. Architects are finding that science fiction can be a great way to understand how their buildings will adapt to a rapidly changing world. I talk with architect and Texas Tech professor Jes Deaver about why she thinks sci-fi can inspire her students to not only think outside the literal box, but to have more empathy. Liam Young explains why he created a program at SCI-Arc to train architects who want to work in fictional or virtual worlds. And author Thomas R. Weaver discusses how he enrolled a city planner to build a pitch deck for a colony spaceship, and why floating cities may not be the best solution to climate change. This episode is sponsored by The Perfect Jean, Audible and Hims. Go to theperfectjean.nyc and get 15% off your first order when you use the code IMAGINARY15 at checkout. Go to audible.com/sunrise and listen to the audiobook of Listen to Sunrise on the Reaping. Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/IMAGINARY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The EPA designated two locations for sorting and processing locations for hazardous debris from the Palisades and Eaton Fires. Residents in both areas are concerned.  We must rethink city planning and development following the LA fires, says UCLA Professor Alex Hall, who advises building homes away from wildlands. Critics review the latest film releases: “Dog Man,” “Companion,” “Love Me,” and “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story.” Eat out to support restaurants that lost business due to the Palisades Fire. Evan Kleiman shares recommendations for west side eateries participating in DineLA, which is happening now. Using film, models, music, and costumes, artist and futurist Liam Young envisions a world where everyone on earth lives together in a single city. 

Architect Liam Young shares his thoughts on how science fiction can be a powerful tool for prototyping new possibilities, why problems like climate change urgently need planetary-scale solutions, and how speculative design can inspire meaningful cultural transformation.  Liam Young is a designer, director, and BAFTA-nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. Described by the BBC as ‘the man designing our futures', his visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today. As a world-builder, he visualises the cities, spaces, and props of our imaginary futures for the film and television industry. His own films have premiered with platforms ranging from Channel 4, Apple+, SxSW, Tribeca, the New York Metropolitan Museum, The Royal Academy, Venice Biennale, the BBC, and The Guardian. Bonus episode recorded live from the Dubai Future Forum at the Museum of the Future in partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation on 20 November 2024. Full-Video Version: https://youtu.be/gGyALHTnxk8  ABOUT THE HOST Luke Robert Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. He hosts documentaries for Futurism, and has contributed to BBC Radio, BBC One, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine. CREDITS In Partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation Producer & Host: Luke Robert Mason Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @FUTURESPodcast Follow Luke Robert Mason on Twitter at @LukeRobertMason Subscribe & Support the Podcast at http://futurespodcast.net

In this inaugural special live episode of Parola Progetto, recorded at Salotto in Brooklyn and presented in English, we are honored to host Paola Antonelli.As the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the museum's Director of Research and Development, Antonelli brings a wealth of experience and insight. During our conversation, we delve into her distinguished career at MoMA, discussing the dynamics of success and rejection, the evolving role of curating, and how museums function as research and development hubs for society. Antonelli offers her perspectives on technology, artificial intelligence, and the future of design, highlighting the critical importance of thoughtful analysis and cultural awareness in these fields.The links of this episode:Salotto, a hub for cultural research and production run by NYC-based Italian creative professionals https://salotto.nycDesign Emergency, curated by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli https://www.instagram.com/design.emergencyMoMA R&D Salons http://momarnd.moma.org/salons“Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival”, curated by Paola Antonelli at La Triennale di Milano in 2019 https://triennale.org/en/events/broken-nature “Planet City” by Liam Young https://www.moma.org/collection/works/450744 “Pirouette. Experiments and Turning Points in Design” curated by Paola Antonelli at MoMA in 2025https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5756“ITEMS. Is Fashion Modern?”, curated by Paola Antonelli at MoMA in 2018https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1638 "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies  

Visions of future worlds by storytellers of all kinds––filmmakers, writers, designers, and other artists––play an important role in our evolution. Whether they are utopias or dystopias, visual or verbal, they invite us to imagine what we could make of ourselves and of our planet, for good and for bad. Australian architect Liam Young is among the most respected and effective contemporary speculative designers and world-builders, focusing on the imagination of better worlds in which humankind recognizes its place and responsibility within nature––climate fiction.The climate crisis is real, and real ideas and solutions need to be implemented with urgency. The citizens of the world need awareness to pressure the powers that be and demand action, and even engineers and scientists need inspiration. However far-off they may seem, Liam's visions are based on current and available technologies, which he studies in depth to mine their positive attributes and attenuate their dangers.Liam, who is based in Los Angeles and often collaborates with Hollywood productions as world-builder, discusses his personal practice, which explores the intersections of technology, culture, and the environment to create immersive narratives that envision alternative futures. By delving into two of his epic works––Planet City and The Great Endeavor––he explains how world building can shape our understanding of potential realities and inspire solutions to contemporary global challenges.You can find images of Liam's work on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like Liam, are at the forefront of positive change.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ross Halls is joined by Matt Makin and Liam Young to discuss all things Ipswich Town. The boys share their thoughts on the new investment by US-based private equity firm, Bright Path Sports Partners and what it means.    They also look ahead to Ipswich Town Women's game at Portman Road and who will be named the men's player of the year.  Plus another addition of the Strike and ready for the final eight games! You can shop the KOA range here - Kings of Anglia | Spreadshop (kings-of-anglia.myspreadshop.co.uk) Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

In this episode we are joined by the acclaimed visual artist and costume designer, Ane Crabtree. Ane's substantial body of work includes her iconic, unmistakable designs for THE HANDMAID'S TALE (seasons one and two) as well as WESTWORLD (season one), and Apple TV's THE CHANGELING. As such, Ane has built a formidable reputation as a designer of the future and was described as one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, deemed so "for designing the apocalypse". Ane is a long standing collaborator with (previous guest of this show) Liam Young, including their most recent project PLANETARY REDESIGN which premiered at Venice Biennale in 2023. Ane also recently collaborated with Darren Aronofsky for POSTCARDS FROM EARTH which was made for The Sphere in Las Vegas. Her work reflects the rural roots of Kentucky and the rich influence of her Okinawan heritage as the backbone of her visual storytelling. In this inspiring and wide-ranging conversation, we discuss the theme of worldbuilding tand storytelling through costume design, includiing her work for THE HANDMAID'S TALE. We also explore Ane's creative and collaborative process, her journey from rural Kentucky to the peak of screen storytelling, the influence of her Okinawan heritage in her work and how she came to collaborate with Darren Aronofsky - and much more! About Ane Crabtree Ane Crabtree is a visual artist, painter, costume designer, and documentarian whose images conjure the hidden emotions behind the stories of memory, skewed reality, sense of place, and human nature. Her work in movies and television explores the use of deconstruction and dystopia, most notably in her original iconic designs for The Handmaid's Tale, seasons one and two. She is also responsible for The Sopranos pilot, Westworld season one, and Masters of Sex, seasons one and two. Inspired by the landscapes of reality, alchemy, nature, and direct documentation, Crabtree's approach to her designs explores the transcendence of the real, utilizing emotions as a conduit or emotional decoder for the audience. In 2018, Crabtree spoke at the United Nations, in support of the METoo movement, at the commemoration of The International Day to End Violence Against Women/Orange the World. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards (2017, 2018, 2019)for her work on The Handmaid's Tale and Westworld (2016). She has been nominated for four Costume Guild Awards for PanAm (2012), Masters of Sex (2015), Westworld (2016), and winning for The Handmaid's Tale (2018). Her first solo exhibition was "Designs for Dystopia" at SCAD Museum of Fashion and Film, featuring her sketches, designs, and wall of inspiration from The Handmaid's Tale (2018). Her work for The Handmaid's Tale has been shown at pop up exhibitions for Vogue Magazine/The Public Hotel (2017), The Paley Center for Media (2017), and is a part of the permanent collection at The National Museum of American History at The Smithsonian Museum (2018). This work was also a part of the group exhibition, Designs for Different Futures at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2019-2020), The Walker Museum of Art (2020-2021), and The Art Institute of Chicago (2021). Crabtree's work will soon be featured in a group exhibition, "Mother!" at The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (2021). Her most recent collaboration, with filmmaker Liam Young, for the National Gallery of Victoria Museum's Triennial (2020-2021), at MAAT in Lisbon (March 2021), and at the Shanghai Biennale (April 2021) features costumes in the short film "Planet City", directed and produced by Liam Young. Planet City is the first "design for utopia" for Crabtree. She served as costume designer, producer, and costume director for seven international artists, including herself. Her costumes for The Handmaid's Tale are now in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian Museum of American History.

What does mobility mean in the 21st century? In this episode of Where Next? Conversations with Map Project Office, host Oli Stratford is joined by designers Will Verity, Dr. Jaiyu Wu, Andy Wheel and Liam Young to discuss how autonomous and electric vehicles are softening the barriers between private cars and leisure spaces.With a rising interest in how we spend our time in cars, does the car itself need to be redesigned? And who is best positioned to create the new infrastructures, spaces and behaviours that these vehicles will demand? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we talk to Liam Young about his recovery from his brain tumour.  Liam tried the traditional route of counselling but found this wasn't for him but he found his perfect form of therapy through a personal trainer.Liam talks about how at 25 he had never prioritised his health, but after his diagnosis he realised how important health actually and how that led to him embarking on a fitness program which he says helped him to deal with the mental and emotional trauma of his diagnosis.If you would like to find out more about the ways a brain tumour diagnosis can affect your mental health and the support available you can find out more on our websiteIf you would like to speak to a member of our support team you can call 0808 800 0004 or email support@thebraintumourcharity.orgBetter Safe Than Tumour Christmas shop

Filmmaker and architect, Liam Young says that the scale at which we rethink and design cities needs to be commensurate with the immensity of the climate threat we currently face. He gives us a virtual tour of a his radically re-imagined future city.

This week Grace, Rob and James cover climate hange and democratic nationalisation, Planetary redesign, AI hallucination and automation, and The Zero Waste Festival.  7:08 - Emeritus Professor Rob WhiteVivien Langford from the Climate Action show interviews Emeritus Professor Rob White from the University of Tasmania. Vivien and Rob talk about Eco socialism and regaining democratic control of the essentials for survival, energy, water, land: the blockaders have thrown down the gauntlet and the banks and government subsidies are accelerating climate change, so is it unthinkable that they could be brought under democratic control? They explore how capitalism is the root cause of climate chaos. Rob describes democratic nationalisation and how we can produce and consume only what we need. 7:20 - Liam Young Rob talks to Liam Young, a director, world-builder and speculative artist about his exhibition Planetary Redesign which offers a radically optimistic take on a post-climate-crisis future. The exhibit is being shown from now until February eleventh next year.  7:43 - Elena Ashton Grace speaks with Elena Ashton, London-based content specialist at Zapier. Elena is an advocate for automation and loves telling stories of better accessibility for automation. Last week, we revisited a conversation with Dr Sarah Bentley, research scientist at CSIRO, discussing the difference between human and AI hallucintion. This time, Elena and I dive deeper into looking at different ways to prevent AI hallucination, but with the context of ChatGPT.  8:00 - Kirsty Bishop-Fox James and the team talk to Kirsty Bishop-Fox, the President of Zero Waste Victoria about the upcoming Zero Waste Festival - a free experience being held at Fed Square this Saturday offering insights into the environmental impact of waste and actionable steps to adopt a zero waste lifestyle, among many other topics. For more details and free tickets, head to zerowastevictoria.org.au.  Songs Played: Running with the hurricane - Camp Cope Sunshine - Emma Donovan It's a long way to the top - Lucinda Williams Mother's Child - Christine Anu 

In this episode, we're joined by Liam Young, founder of Harper, a technology startup that helps retailers deliver in-store experiences to their online customers. Listen as Liam explores the origin of his company and the hurdles he faced during COVID-19, a tiring time for any business.But there's triumph despite the challenges, and Liam expands on how he pivoted from a marketplace to adding value to merchandisers and retailers as a B2B2C company during the pandemic.Key talking pointsLiam's career background How he effectively sold his product to merchantsWhat's next for Harper from a growth perspectiveHis plans for expanding Harper to additional marketsWhat advice he'd give to people looking to get investments in their companyHarper's target personas and how they influence product decisions

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The list of contributors joining Lisa Mullen: Henry Eliot, author of a book of bookish lists which details everything from the different deaths of Greek tragedians to the contents of Joan Didion's travel bag; Florence Hazrat, New Generation Thinker and historian of punctuation; Liam Young, author of a book about lists as a way of organising knowledge, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed; and Joanna Nolan, a researcher in sociolinguistics at SOAS who asks whether lists are ever private languages. Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, List Cultures by Liam Cole Young and An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Punctuation Mark by Florence Hazrat and The Elusive Case of Lingua Franca: Fact and Fiction by Joanna Nolan are out now and you can hear Joanna talking about that research in a previous episode called What Language Did Columbus Speak? A Radio 3 Essay from Florence Hazrat called Pause for Thought exploring the way punctuation has developed over the centuries is available now on BBC Sounds The Free Thinking programme website has a collection of discussions exploring The Way We Live Now including episodes about breakfast, hitchhiking, immortality, writing about money, tattoos, mental health Producer: Luke Mulhall

What came first – space stories from the 1990s or the smartphone? The fourth episode of the "Future Dimensions" feature podcast by Mercedes-Benz demonstrates how fiction and reality consistently inspire one another. Ricardia talks to architect and film director Liam Young about why fictional worlds are also a reflection of our society. She asks design professor Dennis Cheatham how sci-fi technology is shaping our everyday lives. Learns from science fiction professor Lisa Yaszek why we should all dream of a better world, even in challenging times. And takes a deep dive into the fascination, power and responsibility of fictional stories with Jon Landau – the legendary producer of the Avatar films. Are you looking for additional insights into exciting visions? Explore our website now: https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/art-and-culture/zeitgeist/mercedes-benz-podcast

“Fiction is an extraordinary shared language.”Fiction is a product of culture but it also produces culture: it impacts how we see the world. The line between fiction and reality is a thin one, and the urban space is one where our imaginaries are often played out. Through his piece ‘The Planet City', Liam Young takes us on a cinematic drift through imaginary worlds: one fictional, one we are currently living in. What if we stepped back, made room and let global wilderness return? How do these fictional worlds we construct portray our technological possibilities and our gravest concerns? As already inhabitants of a planet city, we have remade the world. A new kind of story is needed to guide us into the future. We need to visualise our collective futures. We need to shape where we all want to go next. By telling the fictive story we get the chance to imagine a possible future, and by doing so, giving us the opportunity to imagine a new story for the planet: “As we write stories we also write the world.”

Liam Young is a director and speculative architect who is designing regenerative futures via provocative thought experiments. Planet City VR is the provocation of centralizing

El Espacio Fundación Telefónica de Madrid se suma por segunda vez a la Programación del Festival MMMAD, con la exposición “Liam Young. Construir mundos” y con los Encuentros MMMAD de pensamiento, en los que profundizaremos en las problemáticas e inquietudes del sector del arte digital de la mano de comisarios y expertos internacionales. En este encuentro, moderado por Diego Iglesias, co-director de MMMAD, contaremos con Ana Drucker, comisaria visual del festival MIRA, Yannick Antoine, coordinador y comisario de proyectos en iMAL y Cris Argüelles, arquitecta e investigadora. #MMMAD2022 Más información en: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/encuentros-mmmad-festival-urbano-de-arte-digital-en-madrid/ Versión en castellano en youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xCFmZTkYY Un nuevo espacio para una nueva cultura: visita el Espacio Fundación Telefónica en pleno corazón de Madrid, en la calle Fuencarral 3. Visítanos y síguenos en: Web: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EspacioFTef Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/espaciofundaciontef Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/espacioftef/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CulturaSiglo21

El Espacio Fundación Telefónica de Madrid se suma por segunda vez a la Programación del Festival MMMAD, con la exposición “Liam Young. Construir mundos” y con los Encuentros MMMAD de pensamiento, en los que profundizaremos en las problemáticas e inquietudes del sector del arte digital de la mano de comisarios y expertos internacionales. En este encuentro, moderado por Diego Iglesias, co-director de MMMAD, contaremos con Doreen A. Ríos, comisaria e investigadora independiente, Johanna Jaskowska, artista y diseñadora digital especializada en realidad aumentada, Martin Mayorga y Vanessa Murrell, comisarios y fundadores de la plataforma de arte contemporáneo DATEAGLE ART. #MMMAD2022 Más información en: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/encuentros-mmmad-festival-urbano-de-arte-digital-en-madrid/ Un nuevo espacio para una nueva cultura: visita el Espacio Fundación Telefónica en pleno corazón de Madrid, en la calle Fuencarral 3. Visítanos y síguenos en: Web: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EspacioFTef Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/espaciofundaciontef Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/espacioftef/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CulturaSiglo21

Liam Young is a speculative architect and director whose work spans design, fiction, and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows Thought Today, an urban futures think tank, and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio. He is also the director of the Masters in Fiction and Entertainment program at SCI Arc. His latest project is Planet City, a story of a fictional city for the entire population of earth. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jarrett and Liam talk about the elasticity of the term ‘architect', the value of storytelling and fictions, and co-opting culture to find new audiences. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/214-liam-young. — If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon and get bonus content, transcripts, and our monthly newsletter! www.patreon.com/surfacepodcast

Ross Halls is joined by Chris Peach, Matt Makin and Liam Young to discuss which striker they would like Town to sign and Sone Aluko extending his deal, Plus the latest addition of The Strike and the best/worst home game this season! Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

Liam Young is a former student who, by all measures, shouldn't have gotten along with me. When we first met, he was ultra-conservative and a newly enlisted Marine. But from the very beginning, he was interested in learning and being challenged. Seeing firsthand how the prosperity gospel is both a horrible misreading of the bible and a weapon used against lower-income people, Liam began deconstructing from evangelicalism early on. From there he saw racism and other forms of bigotry ingrained in evangelical culture, but here's where it gets interesting. Instead of sliding into liberal or progressive views, Liam looked more into older versions of christianity. It's not my thing at all, but it makes a kind of sense when you think about it. Contemporary versions of christianity have added white nationalism, bigotry, and worship of money to their religion, Liam went looking to church traditions that existed around 1500 years before evangelicals were formed. There he and his wife found theological answers to his criticisms of evangelicalism, but there was a catch. They found all this theological wonder in an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox church. In the end, Liam is a kindred spirit who cares about humanity while holding to his faith. I salute him for that. So many conservative kids came and went through my classroom who refused to engage in discourse about tough topics. Liam was always up for discussion, and he was an eager and active listener. All this made for an amazing story of personal convictions leading to growth and discovery. An inspiring and fascinating story all around. The Chapel Probation Instagram has been mysteriously shut down, but you can support this podcast on the Chapel Probation Patreon. Join the conversation about everything on the Chapel Probation Facebook group and sign up for behind-the-scenes info about this podcast and Scott's book on his Substack Newsletter. Music in this episode by Shin Kawasaki and Wingo Shackleford, Elephants with Guns, Azeem Kahn, and Scott Okamoto. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-okamoto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scott-okamoto/support

Ross Halls is joined by David Flisher, Matt Makin and Liam Young discuss the January transfer window as a whole for Town, February points predictions and look ahead to Gillingham.    Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

Liam Young is the co-founder of StaFi Protocol, a decentralized protocol that unlocks the liquidity of staked tokens. StaFi allows users to stake PoS tokens, and receive reward tokens, or rTokens, in return. These rTokens are a synthetic representation of their staked balance and staking rewards, and can be traded on a variety of exchanges and used in DeFi protocols. * How StaFi protocol was started and why it was built using the Polkadot ecosystem, what separates it from its competitors, as well as some potential risks for people considering using StaFi. They also discuss the future funding and outlook of the project, with an emphasis on building awareness in the community as to what exactly staking derivatives are and why they can be so valuable. You can learn more about StaFi at https://stafi.io/ Subscribe to Bull Flag Group: www.bullflaggroup.com *DISCLAIMER: The information provided is not legal, accounting, tax, or investment advice.

Laissez-vous guider dans un safari de science-fiction au réalisme époustouflant à travers Planet City : une métropole imaginaire de dix milliards d'habitants, imaginée par le réalisateur et architecte Liam Young. Étudiez les résultats potentiels d'un espace urbain conçu pour abriter la totalité de la population de la planète - et imaginez des réponses à ce qui est possible et durable pour la planète.

Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to house the entire population of the earth -- and imagine answers to what is possible, and what is sustainable, for the planet.

Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to house the entire population of the earth -- and imagine answers to what is possible, and what is sustainable, for the planet.

Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to house the entire population of the earth -- and imagine answers to what is possible, and what is sustainable, for the planet.

Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to house the entire population of the earth -- and imagine answers to what is possible, and what is sustainable, for the planet.

Rossco is joined by Francine, Bloomers, Mark Wakeley, Liam Young and Brad Archer for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss their feelings on the current situation at Town, what needs to change and thoughts on Paul Cook, plus The Strike and predictions for Lincoln! Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

Ross Halls is joined by Dan Botten and Liam Young for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss the positives and negatives from the winless start, the transfer window deadline and looking ahead to AFC Wimbledon  Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

Ross Halls is joined by Matt aka Bono, Harvey Davies, Liam Young and Ben De'Ath  for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss the opening day draw, cup exit, more new signings, Downes departure and much more! Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

Liam Young is an Australian-born architect, filmmaker and founder of the urban futures think tank Tomorrow's Thoughts Today. Creative director of MPavilion Jen Zielinska spoke to Liam ahead of the Living Cities Film Series, which features a selection of films curated by Liam in response to the theme ‘The Long View' titled Imagined Cities: Urban Futures Prototyped through Film. In this conversation, they discuss everything from speculative fiction and the collapsing of time to using fiction as a language and growing digital cities with Amazon bots. The Living Cities Film Series is presented in collaboration with ACMI and Open House Melbourne.

Ross Halls is joined by Liam Young and Brad Archer for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss England reaching the final of Euro 2020, transfer links, fans returning to Portman Road and looking ahead to the first pre-season game at Dartford Kings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

Bodies exceed humanity. They remind us that we are part of something vaster—and smaller—more complex, more connected than our mere existence as an atomized species. Our bodies, and bodies in general, are composed out of heterogeneity and multitudes. All bodies are wet collective bodies, defined by how they link to other bodies, places, environments, technologies. Think of breathing, clogging, decomposing, discharging, flushing, lubricating, melting, menstruating, transfusing. Bodies exist as trans- and extra-territorial beings. They live in hybridity. This porous condition produces a planetary wet-togetherness, a “commoning” force that constitutes all bodies as collective hydro-subjects. Wet-Togetherness is a collaboration between e-flux and the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water, curated by Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and YOU Mi, and organized and promoted by the Power Station of Art. It consists on 9 sound pieces in which 21 artists, activists and researchers enact aqueousness through sound. The series has been edited by José Luis Espejo and Rubén Coll with the sound design of Tomoko Sauvage, coordination by Roberto González García, and locutions by Yang Yang. Episode 3. Flushing: Hao Pei Chu and Liam Young Pipes connect our bodies with larger ecosystems. They help dispose of and relocate sewage while sustaining the image of its disappearance. Pipes enact the apparent separation between humans and their waste. They are part of the physiological trait, for they help us get rid of that which we no longer want to recognize as ours.   Image: Paula Vilaplana de Miguel.

Ross Halls is joined by Matt aka Bono, Liam Young and Harvey Davies for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss Ed Sheeran becoming Town's new sponsor, Kieron Dyer interview and look ahead to the final game of the seasonKings of Anglia is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KOA at MANSCAPED.com

“The future is a verb, not a noun. It's not something that we passively stumble into, it's something we all actively shape and define”In this episode, David Johnston sits down with director and architect Liam Young, co-founder of the Urban Futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today and the nomadic research studio Unknown Fields.The pair discuss how ‘humanness’ in the future will exist in tech blind spots, the importance of visual language to best detail a story, and the power of using fiction as an emotional Trojan horse to travel through potential futures in order to build the correct infrastructure today.

Ross Halls is joined by Jon Watson, David Flisher, Harvey Davies, Liam Young and Ben De'Ath for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss the takeover, Marcus Evans tenure and look ahead to MK Dons

Ross Halls is joined by Alex Bell, Liam Young, Thomas Seggons, Tom Bloomfield and Harvey Davies for another edition of our fans podcast as they discuss Paul Cooks start as Town boss, the out of contract players and Wigan predictions 

Ross Halls is joined by Tom Baines, Brad Archer, Liam Young, Thomas Seggons, David Flisher and Darren Maundrell for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town. In today's episode they discuss the sacking of Paul Lambert, appointment of Paul Cook, takeover rambling, recapping the latest wins and predicting the March fixtures

In this episode we are joined by Folly Feast Lab. Folly Feast Lab creates visually-led immersive and interactive experiences to address present social and urban themes, co-founded by Viviane El Kmati and Yara Feghali. Viviane is a Lebanese designer and creative technologist working at the intersection of architecture, storytelling, and artificial intelligence technologies. She has led projects for Google R&D, Alex McDowell, Worldbuilding media lab UCS, and Liam Young. Yara is a French and Lebanese architectural designer working at the intersection of architecture, and immersive technologies. She is a faculty at UCLA A.UD and has taught at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, and the Städelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt. This interview is part of the Lectures Interviews Exhibitions series at the Wedge Gallery. Learn more at wedgegallery.woodbury.edu.

Ross Halls is joined by Tom Bloomfield, Harvey Davies, Liam Young, Matt aka ViewfromtheU2 and Jon Watson for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they discuss the draw with Oxford, victory at Hull, the bomb squad, takeover rumours and previewing the upcoming games with Doncaster and Accrington 

Producer Ross is joined by Ben De'Ath, Tom Bloomfield, Harvey Davies, Thomas Seggons, Matt aka View from the U2, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they discuss the Lambert no show, the win over Blackpool and defeat at Posh - plus preview the Blues trip to Shrewsbury Town

Producer Ross is joined by Mark Tuxford, Tom Baines, Brad Archer, Jon Watson, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they recap the draw at Crewe, discuss the January transfer window and the loans debate

Producer Ross is joined by Benjamin Eyriey, Tom Bloomfield, Harvey Davies, Jon Watson, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they recap the Sunderland and Posh defeats, discuss the the front page and looking ahead to the fixtures in February

Producer Ross is joined by Tom Baines, Brad Archer, Jon Watson, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they recap the Burton win, discuss the new signings of Josh Harrop and Luke Thomas and preview the Blues next games against Peterborough and Sunderland

Producer Ross is joined by Marty Dye, Harvey Davies, Jon Watson, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they recap the Swindon defeat, discuss Wolfys comments and transfer plus preview Burton Albion 

This episode is a discussion with Liam Young. Liam is an Australian born archtect and film maker who uses design fiction and film in a really provocative and thoughtful and entertaining fashion. He also runs the MA in Fiction and Entertainment at the Southern California Institute of Archtecture (or SCI-ARC). His work explores the increasingly blurred boundaries among film, fiction, design and storytelling with the goal of prototyping and imagining the future of the city. Help support the Podcast by becoming a Patron. The Near Future Laboratory podcast, a series of discussions and chats in and around the topics of Design, Design Fiction, Design Strategy and Research. Your patronage helps us maintain our digital presence and, most importantly, lets us know you care about the value of this work and the time and effort that goes into its production operation.

In this episode I talk to Liam Young, who is a DJ and radio presenter. He is also one of the coolest people I know, a real rock star. We talk about music and Liam is very open and honest about his own issues with eating disorders. This is not always associated with men, being mostly associated with women. This is clearly a terrible condition that can impact upon anyone. Liams talking about this issue goes some way to address this and the associated stigma. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Producer Ross is joined by Brad Archer, Harvey Davies, Jon Watson, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they look back at 2020 for the Blues, describe the year in three words and give their New Year wishes for 2021

Producer Ross is joined by James Farthing, Harvey Davies, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's trip to Peterborough, thoughts on being back at Portman Road and going full circle Plus recap the Pompey defeat and Burton Albion win

Producer Ross is joined by Matt aka ViewfromtheU2, Brad Archer, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's clash with Portsmouth, thoughts on Andre Dozzell's new contract and discuss Marcus Evans apology.  Plus recap the Plymouth win. 

 Producer Ross is joined by Harvey Davies, George Mann, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's trip to Plymouth, thoughts on Paul Lambert, Lee O'Neill and Marcus Evans comments. Plus recap the last two results against Charlton and Oxford United

Producer Ross is joined by Matt aka ViewfromtheU2, Brad Archer, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young, Jon Watson and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's next game against Charlton, discuss the system, statement on Paul Lambert, looking back to the Shrewsbury win and Hull defeat.

Producer Ross is joined by George Mann, Liam Young, Jon Watson and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's next game against Shrewsbury, bring some positives after the negatives and looking at the next six games for the Blues.

This week, we're delving into our archive looking back to August 2014 to John Cale and Liam Young's project 'Loop 60 hz: Transmissions from the Drone Orchestra'. Produced by Ben Eshmade. Subscribe to Nothing Concrete on Acast, Spotify or wherever you find your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Producer Ross is joined by Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and David Flisher for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview the Blues clash with Portsmouth and dicuss the incidents that happened at Sunderland

Producer Ross is joined by Simon Bartlett, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and Jon Watson for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview the Blues clash with Crewe and Sunderland, Kieron Dyer's new role and much more

Producer Ross is joined by Matt aka ViewfromtheU2, Thomas Seggons, David Flisher, Liam Young and Harvey Davies for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview the Blues trip to Lincoln, free agent striker options and Luke Chambers appearance landmark 

Art director, illustrator, and concept designer for such titles as "Ghost in the Shell", "Captain Marvel" and "Assassin's Creed" Ash Thorp develops a storyline through his work process, dwells on his favourite tools for animation and 3D-renderings, shares tips on self-organisation and destroys the myth of creative block. Books Ash mentions: "Mastery" by Robert Green, "Eat That Frog" by Brian Tracy, "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield, "Damn Good Advice" by George Lois, "Manage Your Day to Day" by 99U. The lecture took place at Strelka in 2019 as part of "In Other Worlds" annual event series. To watch the full lecture followed by discussion with Liam Young and Mike Hill visit Strelka Institute YouTube channel: https://stre.lk/hg8O

Producer Ross is joined by Brad Archer, Thomas Seggons, David Flisher, Liam Young and Jon Watson for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Accrington Stanley at home, big discussion on the Project big picture and look at the transfer window as a whole for Town

Producer Ross is joined by Brad Archer, Thomas Seggons, David Flisher, Liam Young, Sindre Eliassen, Harvey Davies and Jon Watson for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's trip to Blackpool, reaction to Flynn Downes injury blow and discussion on Armando Dobra

Producer Ross is joined by Brad Archer, Thomas Seggons, David Flisher and Liam Young  for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Town's visit to MK Dons, reaction to James Norwood's injury blow and discuss the player of the month awards for September 

Producer Ross is joined by Liam Young, Jon Watson, David Flisher and Thomas Seggons for another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they preview Rochdale at home, discuss the fans' return paused and thoughts on the new Town signing

Producer Ross is joined by David Flisher, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young, Harvey Davies, Brad Archer and Jon Watson in another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they discuss the Kayden Jackson transfer sega, Downes returning against Fulham and preview the Blues visit to Bristol Rovers

Producer Ross is joined by David Flisher, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and Harvey Davies in another edition of our fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they discuss the Kayden Jackson transfer news, Brett McGavin signing a new deal and preview the opening League One game against Wigan at Portman Road

Producer Ross is joined by David Flisher, Thomas Seggons, Liam Young and Harvey Davies in the first edition of our new fans podcast discussing all things Ipswich Town.  In today's episode they discuss the latest news at the club, looking at pre-season overall and a preview to the big season ahead in League One.  There's also chat about the signings so far, team selections and thoughts on Paul Lambert 

LA City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell talks about his plan to incentivize telecommuting after stay-at-home orders are lifted and other ideas for a greener, cleaner LA. Also, futurist Liam Young says there’s a path toward a slower pace and deeper humanity. 

This week Brian and Duncan take a trip to the College Art Association conference 2020 and catch up with Natasha Egan from the Museum of Contemporary Photography. This wide-ranging conversation starts with surveillance and their current exhibition “In Real Life” featuring the artists Stephanie Dinkins, Trevor Paglen, Leo Selvaggio, Maija Tammi, José Orlando Villatoro, Xu Bing, and Liam Young and ends with what is the nature of photography in our contemporary world.   https://www.mocp.org/index.php   https://www.collegeart.org/

Slipping between the real and the imaginary. Filmmaker Liam Young uncovers the concept behind his film Renderlands, which portrays a global network of 24/7 workers generating popular Western culture from films to video games.   Artists explore the non-stop nature of modern life. Liam Young’s short fiction film Renderlands is set in the sphere of videogame companies and render farms in India highlighting a global network where outsourced workers operate 24/7. In Western design studios, wireframed structures are sketched out for imaginary cities and landscapes, which are then rendered by anonymous workforces in other countries into the high-precision digital architectures of video games and films. Renderlands is a utopia that exists in the screen alone – a virtual city that stretches from Los Angeles to Bangalore, constructed from the remnants of demolished landmarks, alien invasions, and outsourced dreams.   Featuring contributions from exhibition curator Sarah Cook and Jonathan Reekie, co-curator of 24/7 and Director of Somerset House.    The exhibition 24/7 - A Wake Up Call For Our Non-Stop World (https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/247) at Somerset House takes visitors on a multi-sensory journey from the cold light of the moon to the fading warmth of sunset through five themed zones and contains over 50 multi-disciplinary works that will provoke and entertain. The exhibition runs at Somerset House until 23 February 2020.   Producer: Eleanor Scott Sound Design: Harry Murdoch Mixed by Nick Ryan Featuring excerpts from Renderlands by Liam Young. 

In this episode anylabtalks featuring “Dezeen Day”, an international architecture and design conference took place on 30 October. The interviews were recorded in Dezeen Day at BFI Southbank, London. In this exclusive interviews Nurgul Yardim Mericliler and Emre Erdogan have talked with high-profile speakers and asked their motivation behind their speeches. This episode's guests are Paola Antonelli, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Rachel Armstrong, Liam Young, Benedict Hobson, Patrik Schumacher and Dara Huang. Thanks Dezeen for this opportinity! Enjoy the episode! Paola Antonelli is an author, editor and curator. She is currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Arthur Mamou-Mani is an architect and director of Mamou-Mani Architects and a specialist in digital fabrication and advanced bioplastics. Rachel Armstrong is professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University, she is a pioneer of living architecture, an approach that seeks to give buildings some of the qualities of natural systems. Liam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is the founder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today and runs the programme on Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc. Benedict Hobson is the Dezeen's chief content officer. We asked him what was his personal highlight of the day? Patrik Schumacher is the principal at Zaha Hadid Architects and founder of Design Research Unit at the Architecture Association. Dara Huang is an architect and founder of Design Haus Liberty and co-founder of Vivahouse.

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today, an urban futures think tank, exploring the local and global implications of new technologies and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio that travels on expeditions to chronicle these emerging conditions as they occur on the ground. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine and New Scientist, is a BAFTA nominated producer and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and MAAS in Sydney. He has published several books including the recent Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene and has taught internationally at the Architectural Association, Princeton University and now runs the ground breaking MA in Fiction and Entertainment at Sci Arc in Los Angles. Liam's narrative approach sits between documentary and fiction as he focuses on projects that aim to reveal the invisible connections and systems that make the modern world work. Liam now manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and prototyping the future worlds he extrapolates from them. This episode was recorded live at the 2019 Bogota AudioVisual Market (BAM). For more information on BAM www.bogotamarket.com and for Film Disruptors: www.alexstolz.com

Twenty-first century visions of the future now seem drawn from Hollywood horror films. Runaway climate change portends the wholesale destruction of economies and species. Scientists fear new mass epidemics. Old technologies are breaking down and new technologies are used for oppression and social control. The deluge of digital information makes it hard to separate truth from fiction. What are the risks of human society of entering a darker, less civilized age? Do the rise of authoritarians and political extremists portend greater barbarity in how our societies are governed? Even if we all agreed that we’re close to the apocalypse, do humans have the capacity to save themselves? University of New South Wales global biosecurity scholar Raina MacIntyre, SCI-Arc speculative architect and futurist Liam Young, and RAND Corporation defense policy researcher and former U.S. Marine Jonathan P. Wong visited Zócalo to examine whether the future will take us backwards. Moderated by Edan Lepucki, novelist and author of California, this Zócalo/Getty event took place in Los Angeles at the Getty Center.

It's our last episode of 2018! In this conversation, fashion futurist Amanda Cosco speaks with Liam Young of Harper Concierge, a startup that aims to bring the luxury experience to shoppers in the comfort of their own homes. Using Harper Concierge, you can preselect clothing online and then indicate a time window you’ll be home. Harper then sends a concierge to your door, allowing you to try on items at home, either while the concierge waits outside or helps, depending on the shopper’s preference. Keep and pay for items you love, while ones you don't are sent back with the concierge so you don’t have to deal with returns.Read the full blog post here --> https://electricrunway.com/delivering-the-luxury-experience-to-your-door/Learn more about Harper Concierge here --> https://www.harperconcierge.com/Follow us on Instagram --> https://www.instagram.com/electric_runway/Subscribe on iTunes --> https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/electric-runway-podcast/id1064514329?mt=2

I am happiest at work when I am surrounded by creative types and talking about creative endeavors. The LA Design Festival has come and gone, but for the past few weeks, I have been culling throughout the content from the event and putting it together in ways that I want you to hear and see it. Sometimes, that means changing the order and this is one of those times. Following is a conversation for anyone who considers themselves a “creative”, an artist, designer, architect or any other title that says, “I engage in creative endeavors.” The following conversation was held at the LA Design Festival and focuses on the origins and process behind creative thinking by four decorated practitioners of the art… Participants include; Liam Young, the Australian born architect, founder of Tommorow’s Thoughts Today, a think tank that explores imaginary urbanisms. Young has taught at Princeton, currently at Sci-Arc. David Charles is a creative director and filmmaker. He has worked on 72andSunny, he’s the ECD of the LA office for Dutch shop KasselSkramer and he is a Sundance New Frontiers. Kerri Elsmly is the Chief Creative Officer for experiential design studio, Second Story and Toby Past, the award-winning Group Creative Director at Sapient Razorfish. Toby’s brand creative work is extensive and includes work for Acura, AT&T, Disney Entertainment among others. This conversation is being presented to you before you hear the their panel on the subject of Design Thinking. The panel conversation was great and we will be presenting that, soon. But this conversation is about the process that goes into the creative thought process. Issues that you deal with every day from ideating an issue, trouble shooting, problem solving, falling in love with your own ideas versus letting them go and dealing with creative block. If you are a creative thinker, you deal with these issues daily. This is how some of the best in the business from different disciplines approach those very same issues. #design #Art #creativethinking #LADesignFestival Convo By Design - http://www.ConvoByDesign.com #ConvoByDesign Snyder Diamond - http://www.SnyderDiamond.com Miele USA - http://www.MieleUSA.com Vondom USA - http://www.Vondom.com Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com Convo By Design is presented by Snyder Diamond, always first with what’s next in the kitchen and bath. Snyder Diamond is a family owned and operated company that serves the Southern California design and architecture community as well as discriminating homeowners through remarkable customer service and a curated offering of kitchen and bath appliances, fixtures and finishes. The products at Snyder Diamond include the industry’s best, like the full line of Miele appliances. Miele is a family owned and operated company offering industry leading products since 1899. This includes a full line of refrigerators, ovens, steamers, cook tops, wine units, coffee machines, dish washers, ventilation hoods, washers and dryers. All of these products are made using the highest standards in manufacturing and industry leading technology to provide a superior class of appliance. Form, function and future, that’s Miele. Pair that with the standard-bearer when it comes to customer service and Snyder Diamond delivers dreamy kitchens that exceed expectation. If that is not enough, right now and for a limited time, Miele is offering some amazing and generous rebates and offers. For details on these and to see the full line of Miele products visit any of the three Southern California Snyder Diamond locations or visit online at Snyder Diamond dot com.

Transition from teenager to college-bound can be hard for any young adult, and frequently is increasingly more challenging for those with a disability to factor in. Liam Miller is currently a sophomore Computer Science major at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who is not letting Collagen VI slow him down - he’s active socially and academically, as well as plays for the Philadelphia Flyers PowerPlay - Power Wheelchair Floor Hockey. Liam shares with us his experiences transitioning to college and the importance he learned in planning ahead.

My guest today is Liam Young, an architect and visionary futurist filmmaker who uses his design background combined with experience in crafting environments to prototype new worlds — worlds that reveal unexpected aspects of how we live today and how we will live in the future.   Liam teaches speculative architecture and world building at Sci Arc, a leading architecture school. He founded Unknown Fields, a nomadic studio documenting expeditions to the ends of the earth, exploring unusual forgotten landscapes, and obsolete ecologies. And Liam has co-founded Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a futures think tank envisioning fantastic speculative urban settings of tomorrow.

In our longest episode ever, Laura and Jack are joined by the journalist Liam Young to talk about his new book Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism, which analyses the Corbyn movement by centring the newly engaged youth at its heart. Along the way, the gang touch on honey-horny Richard Dawkins, Amol Rajan's bizarre sycophancy towards Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, New Labour's rank authoritarianism, how Blair fucked the youth, how Blair was over-reliant on polls and created a deeply contradictory form of definitely-not-populism, and how Blair did Britpop and murdered shoegaze. A lot of Blair talk, really. Blair on the brain.

Liam Young is an Australian born architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms. Building his design fictions from the realities of present, Young also co-runs the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine, and Dazed and Confused and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has taught internationally including the Architectural Association and Princeton University and now runs an M.A. in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc. Young manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and visualizing the fictional worlds he extrapolates from them.

EP II — Liam Young is a speculative architect who in his own words, works between documentaires, fictions and futures. He tells stories about the global and urban implication of emerging technologies and he uses techniques from film, fiction and performance to explore what the future might look like, and what are the emerging trends that beginning to shape those futures around the world. Liam Young is co-director of Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio, and founder of urbanism think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today. Special thanks to http://FITC.ca for setting up the interview. The interview is recorded during FITC Amsterdam X. Mentions. Tomorrows Thoughts Today — http://tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com Unknown Fields Division — http://unknownfieldsdivision.com Film: Hello City — vimeo.com/161942797 Film: In the Robot Skies — vimeo.com/184429206 Performance: Drone Orchestra — https://youtu.be/y4QQzzU2diM Book Neuromancer by William Gibson — https://goo.gl/fwBOH6 Live Performance / Exhibition 1 APR 2017: Liam Young will bring an Expanded Cinema Performance version of ‘In The Robot Skies’, joined by musician Forest Swords at STRP Biennale in Eindhoven, NL — https://strp.nl/en/program/liam-young-au/ 30 MRT — 13 MAY 2017: Liam Young: New Romance, the first U.S. solo exhibition at Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in New York, USA. — https://www.arch.columbia.edu/exhibitions/51-liam-young-new-romance The Neon five. Book: The City & The City by China Miéville — https://goo.gl/DGllY8 Event/Conference: Any event outside your comfort zone Food: Dutch fries with mayonnaise Movie/tv: Black Mirror — www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/ Miscellaneous: Travel If you have questions, I love to get your feedback on Twitter www.twitter.com/neonmoire If you enjoyed this episode please let Liam know via Twitter at www.twitter.com/liam_young Brought to you by Neon Moiré Hosted and edited by Thomas Dahm www.twitter.com/thomasdahm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neonmoireshow/message

Architect and educator Liam Young joins Paul Petrunia and Nicholas Korody in the Archinect studio for this week's One-to-One. Young, a kind of architect-non-architect (his definition of the role may vary), concerns his design and creative work with the anthropocentric futures of our globalized society, in architecture, energy, and technology. Standard among his many roles are co-director of the AA's Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio, and founder of the urbanism think tank, Tomorrow's Thoughts Today. Current projects include developing a new masters program at SCI-Arc in fiction and entertainment, and leading a studio at the AA. Special thanks to SCI-Arc for helping set up the interview.

Conversation recorded with Liam Young in London on May 13, 2015 http://the-archipelago.net/2015/05/14/liam-young-the-geological-and-technological-landscape-production-of-our-cities/

Welcome to Visionaries, a podcast dedicated to futurological thinkers brought to you by Future Human and the V&A. We seek out people who are reimagining innovation in their field, and ask them to apply their intelligence to emerging trends. Liam Young is an architect at the thinktank Tomorrows Thoughts Today. Their work focuses on researching ‘urban futures’, and examining past visions of future buildings to better understand the contemporary evolution of their industry. He describes how he works with production designers and special effects teams from movies such as Alien and Blade Runner to visualise the role of the city in a digital world. Could we see the emergence of ‘data suburbs’, a technologically stratified housing market, and ‘weaponised connectivity’, as governments and corporations seek to control urban environments? And are utopian visions of architecture useful or profoundly misleading? Presented by Ben Beaumont-Thomas.

My apology for being very unproductive these last weeks since I am particularly busy with projects in which I'm directly or indirectly involved including the interview with Neeraj Bhatia (here and here) which, as I wrote in a previous post, may go to another platform. Again, when official, I will let you know where and when to read the interview. However, I may post not-selected questions/responses in this blog.Another project on which I am working is my first guest-posting but again I may content merely with posting abstracts as I'm thinking of publishing them. If so, this will be by 2014.                                              ****************************************Last week-end I was in Lisbon for the triennial whose theme is Close, Closer. This was my first-ever trip to Lisbon, a very beautiful European city with its port, its very lively streets, and colored buildings, and its famous tramway.The Lisbon Architecture Triennial has been founded in 2007. For this third edition, the committee has elected as Artistic Director a young and notable British curator Beatrice Galilee who has co-curated the Gwangju Design Biennial 2011 with Helen Hejung Choi. For this Triennial, she teamed up with three curators Liam Young, co-founder of Tomorrow Thoughts Today, Unknown Fields Division and Under Tomorrow Sky, Mariana Pestana and José Esparza Chong Cuy, and co-curator Dani Admiss. The curatorial team's aim was to draw on a political manifesto that claims that a new form, (rather new forms), of architecture practice is emerging out. Of what? The 21st century? Multifaceted crises? As the curatorial team states, Close, Closer tackles "the political, technological, emotional, institutional, and critical forms of global spatial practice." At issue is new forms of practice. New forms of practice, still stammering but seething, still fragile but resolute (see here and here).Close, Closer is presented as "an intense and multiple debate network on 'what architecture can be,'" says José Mateus, Chairman, also founding Director of José Mateus Arquitecto at a moment when Portugal, but many European countries a well, is struggling against a profound economic and identity crisis. Seven months or so ago, I interviewed the curatorial team for a first look at the curatorial content, strategies — even at a primary stage — and goals behind Close, Closer. Remember the website. The curatorial team regularly posted new questions about what architecture could be: What else can architecture do? When does produce architecture? What answers should architecture be giving today?, and so forth. This website, particularly dynamic since based on a participative mode, invited us to reply to these questions, be you architect or not. Beatrice Galilee said that:The premise of this event is not to give answers, but to position questions about the condition of architectural practice today. These questions — pregnant with meaning or innocent in their simplicity — contain both a statement and a call to action. They resonate on a public stage beyond traditional discourse in order to find their way to a conversation between disciplines of culture and structures of real power.The theme — a generation of young architects in the face of an ever-changing world— reveals architecture's position today.This, the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale, has been commissioned and procured in the midst of the yo-yoing economic fortunes of a faltering Eurozone country where, currently, unemployment for graduates stands at 40%. This is the generation of young architects who may ask themselves if they should be designing the architecture of networks and systems, of societies or conversations, rather than buildings.What interested me in this third edition is the curatorial function of architecture, how architecture can tackle these complex, multi-faceted issues within curating, or what position, role or function curating can play within the architectural apparatus. At stake is the potentiality that curating can offer to architecture in going out of its ivory tower, just as some of the participants of Close, Closer said, to push the architectural practice to be more engaged with the world from the smallest scale to the extra-largest scale. For that matter, I decided to focus on one of the exhibitions programmed there, namely Future Perfect. I will profit from this occasion to discuss the contingent trait of architecture.As an evidence what is at issue, albeit partly, in this third edition, at least in accordance with my interest, is the relationship of the architect and his discipline, and, beyond this, the world. A unquestionable fact: The architect cannot content merely with the scale of building, or, to push further, the very act of building. On one hand, the architect is now extending his skillness in operating at a larger system — not necessarily the scale of the city, but that of the regional, the territory, the planetary — I'm speaking of infrastructure. On the other hand, the architect, more politically-engaged, uses other forms of practice, that is to say, curating, writing and publishing. Although many of them do not build, their influence on architecture is strong. Other build but use these extra activities as a means of leveraging their built projects. But what is common is that they aim to repurpose the architectural practice.An example, present in Close, Closer: Andrés Jaque and his firm the Office for Political Innovation, for instance, examines "the potential of post-foundational politics and symmetrical approaches to the sociology of technology to rethink architectural practices," as he states in his website. He participated in a three-day event 'Super Power of Ten' at the Triennial including two talks 'Radical Pedagogies: A conversation', and 'Phaidon Atlas Talks'. He also took part in 'Definition Series/OLD: from elderly to lateness' at Storefront IS Lisbon, a project curated by New York-Based Storefront for Art and Architecture, which was also part of Close, Closer. The list of the participants is long. And you should have been there at the opening days to profit from the program: exhibitions, talks, performances, etc.For those who couldn't be present, other events were scheduled within these four months including Spatial Agency composed of Jeremy Till, Tatjana Schneider, and Nishat Awan, who curated a two-day event (17-20 October), The Institute for Radical Spatial Education, an event part of the Institute Effect. The event's ambition was to re-imagine professional and pedagogical agendas for architecture through a series of 'actions' that will alter the space within the gallery and beyond, the curators said. If you have read Jeremy Till's Architecture Depends, you certainly are familiar with the purpose of this event. In his book, he defends a new contingently educational methodology for a better — or real — engagement of architecture with the uncertainties of the world.Not far away from Spatial Agency was Design as Politics, another two-day event (20-23 November) curated by Wouter Vanstiphout and Marta Relats. The event is declined as an exhibition "of the work undertaken at the institute and through a series of talks." The participants were invited to vote in the line of participative exhibitions.I decided not to attend the opening week despite the fact that a large number of events were scheduled in September. I decided to go to the Triennial the last week.Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC, 2013Future Perfect ı Close, Closer 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013Which brings me to one of the strongest points. Of great interest, indeed, was Future Perfect, an installation curated by Liam Young with a large panel of contributors, mostly scientists, technologists, designers, artists and science fiction authors, including Rachel Armstrong, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Bruce Sterling, Bart Hess, Tim Maly, Cohen van Balen, Factory Fifteen, and Warren Ellis, among others. As the curator presentsFuture Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credit: ULGC 2013.Emerging in the shadows of the decaying towers of a post-oil Dubai, geo-engineered by climatologists and influenced by the imminent economic boom of the Indian subcontinent it is a terraformed urban island. A city is grown rather than built, a creature, living, breathing and computing, a seething ecology that has become a new metropolitan megaform. A speculative urbanism, an exaggerated present, where we can explore the wonders and possibilities of emerging biological and technological research and envision the possible worlds we may want to build for ourselves. For the future is not something that washes over us like water, it is a place we must actively shape and define. Through fictions we share ideas and we chronicle our hopes and fears, our deepest anxieties and our wildest fantasies. Spend time in the districts, read the fictions of those who live there, meet friends and strangers, listen to their stories and share their lives. Some of us will be swept up in what the city could be, others will be reserved and look on with caution. We have not walked these streets before, what things may come, in a Future Perfect.More explicitly,Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013Future Perfect is trying to present a vision of the future that is somehow ambiguous. I don't think it is completely utopian or positive, but neither is a classical dystopian vision of the future with dark skies and endless rain. It is somewhere in between. Right now we are in a really interesting moment where there are so many unknowns about the future: biotechnology, climate change, failing economies. All these things are massive issues, which as a culture we just don't know how to deal with.We began the projects with a think tank of scientists, technologists and futurists — these individuals are actually in the process right now of making the future. They are in labs and in companies and are building the things that we are going to be faced with in the next 20 or 30 years. And I think engaging them is a really unique thing to be doing — putting them in direct collaboration with artists, designers and visualizers, to communicate those ideas broadly. We have created an entire fictional world with all the subtleties of a real city, with characters and stories that describe their lives. This is an imaginary place but it is built out of the cutting edge research that is happening right now in places such as MIT Media Lab, or in the bio labs of Michigan University, a leading proponent of biotechnology, where extraordinary world class coders, digital artists and scripters are working. These practitioners, industries, companies and universities, are really shaping what our cities are going to be.Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013The installation was housed in the Museu Da Electricidade (the Museum of Electricity) occupying two spaces. In the first space, two installations: a Quarantine zone composed of lightning, and a model of a speculative, terraformed, land or decaying city. In the second room a large installation composed of five zones including The Looms, The Wilds (a forest including a video installation), the Supercomputer, The Garment District (prosthetic bodies), and The Lookout (a video installation).And Nowhere a Shadow | Cohen van Balen | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013The common denominator of these speculative projects lies in the transformation of the individual body, or the collective bodies (the city) in the face of emerging technologies, climate change, ecological and economic crisis. How can human beings adapt to this transformation?And Nowhere A shadow | Cohen van Balen | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013For the youth tribes of Future Perfect the body is a site for adaptation, augmentation and experimentation. They celebrate the corruption of the body data by moulding within their costumery all the imperfections of a decaying scan file. Shimmering in the exhibition landscape is a network of geometric reflective pools of molten wax. Their mirrored surface is broken by a body, suspended from a robotic harness, plunging into the liquid. A crust of wax crystallises around its curves and folds, growing architectural forms, layer by layer, like a 3D printer drawing directly onto the skin. Slowly the body emerges, encased in a dripping wet readymade prosthetic. It is a physical glitch, a manifestation of corrupt data in motion, a digital artefact. They hang from hooks like a collection of strange beasts and frozen avatars. Body prints, imperfect and distorted and always utterly unique.Chupan Chupai, a film produced by British Factory Fifteen, showed a group of children playing, running around the city. As Jonathan Gales and Paul Nichols, co-founders of Factory Fifteen, stated: "through their play the children discover how to hack the city, opening up a cavernous network of hidden and forgotten spaces, behind the scenes of everyday streets."Chupan Chupai | Factory Fifteen | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013One may be attracted by the color of the images: yellow, blue, red, orange, green in contrast with brownish-colored buildings unfolding the fast-urbanization of the Indian society that will absorb tradition… or human contingency.Chupan Chupai | Factory Fifteen | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013Watching this film, I was reminded of Zygmut Bauman's Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts, in particular this sentence "the birth of the new requires the death of the old." The children are innocently confronted with "an emerging technology and economic superpower." Put it simply, they are facing or will be swallowed by the machine, the interlinked facets of urban growth and globalization.The Garment District | Bart Hess | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013The Garment District | Bart Hess | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013The Garment District | Bart Hess | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013Another video-based installation is And Nowhere a Shadow produced by Cohen van Balen, part of Future Perfect, consisting of a woodland including metal structures whose functions are to feed blueberry plants. Cohen van Balen describes this woodland as follows:And Nowhere a Shadow | Cohen van Balen | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013We are wandering a new kind of wilderness, where the line between biology and technology is becoming increasingly indistinguishable. Through genetic modification, engineered meat, cosmetic surgery and geo-engineering we are remaking our world from the scale of cells to the scale of continents. The woods, wild and mysterious from afar, appear as a stage on which every element is considered. Genetically engineered plants, artificially sustained, are hanging from the trees, embedded in the ecology yet detached from it. Their scaffolding systems of gleaming steel and neon light sway in the wind, waiting. Grey wolves approach the structures during the night to scratch their body on the steel branches. In an intricate arrangement of devised symbiosis, the contraption takes on the role of host organism. The wolf's movements generate electricity for the system, while the blueberries are engineered to contain rabies vaccine in its fruit to protect the animal from self-destruction. Cameras transmit footage of the wolf's presence around the globe, adorned in invisible garlands of electric display, to be enjoyed by those whose passion for the spectacle of wilderness sustains its survival.Again, this reminded me R&Sie(n)/New Territories's Lost in Paris, in particular this fern, a plant that grows around the house. Not surprising since R&Sie(n)/New Territories develops a speculative architecture. In this project, and just like van Balen's And Nowhere a Shadow, technology is interconnected with nature. The plant is fed with an engineered nutrient mixture combined with harvested rainwater. This system, then, is monitored by the inhabitants to prevent the fern to decay and, in doing so, to protect the building and its dwellers from externalities.The Supercomputer/Pushing Boundaries | Marshmallow Laser Feast | Future Perfect ı Close, Closer, 2013. Image credits: ULGC 2013A disappointment, however, was another installation, the Supercomputer/Pushing Boundaries by Marshmallow Laser Feast. Not the project on its own but its curatorial approach. It seems to me that another curatorial strategy would have been more appropriate for this installation. Indeed, I nearly missed it. It is because I noticed a visitor intrigued by a wall that I raised my head and finally saw the projection on the wall. The room likely was too dark for that installation. Such curatorial decision raises the question of grouping a complex set of micro-projects with their own context when one of them probably would have required another option. Indeed, it seems to me that the other installations have overwhelmed the Supercomputer, unless it was intentional.Here lies the Triennial's conceptual center: architecture's agency. What position, what role can architecture play in an ever-changing world, when everything goes fast causing unpredictable, irreversible turbulence? What methodology? What is the architecture's agency in the face of this shift? Or, better, what could we do?The common denominator of these micro-installations resides in the exploration of bodies across a shifting society, technological apparatuses, connectivity, and uncertainty creating new potentials for design. Liam Young wrote in his statement that "Our familiar infrastructure of roads, buildings and public squares are giving way to ephemeral digital networks, biotechnologies and cloud computing connections." This paradigmatic shift is profoundly transforming our perception and relation with others, with space as well as time. It is also redesigning us. Transformation is going too fast to be controllable calling into question design's potentiality, say, what is design's agency in the face of this transformation? How design can tackle it? For my perspective, this is the message that this set of curatorial projects attempted to convey. What if architecture reconsiders its relationship with contingency? That architecture is bound to contingency, as Alisa Andrasek forthrightly wrote in the 25th issue (summer 2012) of Log Journal of architecture, this is an indisputable fact. And no-one will contest her statement. She, then, is right to claim that architecture, however, has not integrated contingency. In this context, this is indisputably that architecture must cope with contingency to problem-address a set of uncertainties. And no! Not everything is under control except if we, happy nihilist, continue to view our changing world as a… continuation (I am thinking of Timothy Morton's excellent essay "Same as it ever was"for the 35th issue of Volume Magazine.)Speculative architecture allows for trials and errors to stimulate creativity. An object, for instance, is too unstable or irreversible to be finished. It must be capable of absorbing contingency to adapt and respond to uncertainties. This is one of the characterists of speculation: never allow for finite product, accept processual, becoming. Second, society, as a large, contingent and complex system, becomes a laboratory to explore, or speculate a set of scenario that could leverage new ideas, new potentiality. Neither cannot its contours be fixed. Nor cannot they be hard. So are its structures. Society must be understood as fluctuating all the time. Remember what scientist Ilya Prigogine said about fluctuations: "[T]hese fluctuations are sometimes amplified on the macroscopic level and lead to non-equilibrium structures, to biological structures, and so on." Now failure. Failure is at the core of society. Society is based on trial and errors like nature. And yes, not everything is under control, once again in that you have to deal with contingency, indeterminacy, instability, fluctuation and change. See these hyperobjects like radioactive decay, weather, biological cell, the Earth, they are some examples of irreversibility. It seems to me that Future Perfect attempts to unfold the importance of integrating this very fact that we no longer must consider our modern world (or architecture,  or nature, or city, or any object) stable, finite. It also reveals that future should not be comprehended as something too blurry or, on the contrary, too predictable. Future is fluctuant and ever-changing, consequently creative and innovative. So must be urban space. As Liam Young explainsIn Future Perfect the city is being avidly redefined. For instance, I live in London and my friends live in London, but I spend most part of my time on Facebook or on my twitter network, therefore my experience of London is actually an augmented one. It is one distributed across luminous rectangles scattered around the planet. The city as a physical place is starting to disappear as a notion altogether. In this sense, the Future Perfect city isn't necessarily just about a place, but about a community, and this community is connected through technology. The Future Perfect city is an assemblage of devices, servers, proxy locations, IP addresses and of people positioned at the end of fiber optic cables and circuit boards, scattered across the world. And, in the end, the physical place that we describe is just one place. I wouldn't necessarily call it a city in the traditional sense — it is a community that is formed through technology. In general Future Perfect is interested in the idea that emerging technologies are fundamentally changing the way that we live and interact with each other. They are fundamentally changing the idea of what a community is or what a city is.Imagining the future allow for tackling the present. Liam Young continuesWe take emerging trends and we exaggerate them, we play them out in a series of different scenarios so that we can test them and access them. We can talk abstractly about something like climate change, we can see it on the news, we can hear scientists talk about how many degrees the temperature is rising or how many meters the ocean level is rising, but it is not very tangible.Hence the critical function of speculation, or science fiction:Science fiction has a great capacity to communicate these urgent ideas and present them in a way that generates a conversation. And that allows us to be more active in thinking about what our future is what futures we want. We can all collectively try and get to somewhere preferable, exciting and positive as opposed to just waiting for us to have the future thrust upon us by forces larger than ourselves.Let me put these fascinating problems aside for another moment. Back to the Triennial, and more explicitly to the curatorial function of and its articulation with architecture. How does architecture articulate curating?The reason why I have gone too far with my analysis of Future Perfect is that I wanted to stress a possible articulation of fiction, speculation, contingency and curating within the notion of potentiality. Fiction and speculation first (allow me for putting these two notions at the same level for that matter). Let me go back to Liam Young's statement about the potentiality of science fiction as a tool to "communicate these urgent ideas and present them in a way that generate conversation." Curating is a form of fiction or speculation. It lies in "critically examining the present". Curating can allow architecture for testing, experimenting as François Roche said about the role of exhibition in his design practice. I'm thinking of Une Architecture des Humeurs, this design research/exhibition for instance. For the architect, the exhibition can be "a suite of visual indices," as François Roche said, or a result of a research, this is, at least, how it seems to be articulated in R&Sie(n)/New Territories. In the case of Roche, the exhibition is part of his practice, like research, a process, or a speculation.First, the architect extends his role into a curator. Second, the exhibition elaborates, experiments, tests a scenario-based project that deploys, a "constantly mutating sequence of possibilities", to paraphrase François Roche. An approach not very different from Future Perfect to a certain extent.What interested me in this Triennial, beyond the theme of future practices as elaborated by Close, Closer, is the way the curator, Beatrice Galilee and her associated curators have articulated the potentiality that curatorial function can offer to architecture. Of course Future Perfect is not the only exhibition that stresses this potentiality. Other exhibitions and events have done it but differently. Galilee and her curatorial team have used curating to investigate the state of architecture practice in this new and intricate era, how the discipline of architecture is challenging this very complex mutation that is transforming architecture profoundly (and, in turn, how this mutation is challenging architecture). In this context, Close, Closer is an example of the potentiality of curatorial practices in enabling a discussion about architecture's agency in tackling these issues presented by the show.With an evidence, this form of curating may have not seduced everyone. Some critics have complained the lack of coherence or the dizzying problematic of the edition or, worse, its puerility. To the contrary, it seems to me that these critics reveal a misunderstanding of the potentiality of curatorial practices within architecture. Such criticism, in fact, is itself too accustomed to pre-codified exhibitions — the solo show, or the mid-career survey or the group show. Or, it also is possible that the format of the biennial itself should be clarified in its distinction from the Venice Architecture Biennial model and its national pavilions. The field of art has already engaged a reflection on it. Given the growing number of exhibitions, biennials as well as other forms of curatorial practices like lecture, conversation, or even, publication, it won't be a surprising if architecture is confronted with this task of engaging a serious reflection of the potentiality of curating as an expanded field, at least to avoid such misunderstandings.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.Neither did I find Beatrice Galilee and her associated curators' curatorial approach to this edition the best curatorial approach architecture ever has. Nor, on the contrary, would I say another curatorial approach would have been better, or something has not been deepened enough for a better understanding of the curators' statement.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.Beatrice Galilee is neither the first nor the only one to break with the tradition in curating architecture in this manner — I'm wondering, for instance, what curatorial methodology Think Space's curators will establish for their exhibition Money — a hint: the curators have opted for a competition-based curatorial strategy. These curators are no longer willing to merely fill up an available space. As I attempted to demonstrate, they aim to project their own ideas, their research into the space.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.The Institute Effect ı Close, Closer, 2013, Image credit: ULGC.Close, Closer was curated by Beatrice Galilee, and co-curators Liam Young, Mariana Esparza, José Esparza Chong Cuy, assisted by Dani Admiss as the third edition of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, from September 12 to December 15, 2013.NotesAll subsequent quotes by the curatorial team and architects in this blog are drawn from their writings in the triennial catalogue.* Liam Young (ed.), Expect Everything and Nothing Else, Booklet for 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial/Close, Closer, 2013* 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Close, Closer ı Os Lugares Estão Para As Passoas e Vice-Versa, Catalogue Guide, 2013.* Thinking in Practice, Future Perfect ı An Interview with Liam Young, 2013* Zygmunt Bauman, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts, Polity, 2003.* Jeremy Till, Architecture Depends, MIT Press, 2009.* Jeremy Till, "Scarcity contra Austerity", Design Observer, 10.08. 2012* Scott Timberg, "The architecture meltdown", Salon, 4. 02. 2012* Alisa Andrasek, "Open synthesis// Toward a resilient fabric of architecture", in Log journal of Architecture, Issue 25, Summer 2012.* R&Sie(n)/New Territories and Caroline Naphegyi, "Protocols & Process ı in Cahier Spécial du magazine Mouvement, pdf (in French. in English).* Timothy Morton, "Same as it ever was", in Volume Magazine, Issue 35 "Everything is Under Control", 20-22.* Catherine Rampell, "Want a Job? Go to College, and Don't Major in Architecture", The