LA-based Speculative Architect Liam Young is one half of the think tank, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today. Liam borrows techniques from the worlds of fiction, film and futures and leverages them as imaginative tools to explore the implications and consequences of emerging trends, technologies and ecological conditions as a means to understand our ‘current’ world in new ways. His two recent projects are world firsts, Where The City Can’t See is the first narrative fiction film shot entirely with laser scanners and In The Robot Skies is shot entirely through autonomous drones.
Projects
- Where The City Can't SeeDirected by speculative architect Liam Young and written by fiction author Tim Maughan and designed ‘Where the City Can’t See’ is the world’s first narrative fiction film shot entirely with laser scanners. The computer vision systems of driverless cars goggle maps, urban management systems and CCTV surveillance are now fundamentally reshaping urban experience and the cultures of our city. Set in the Chinese owned and controlled Detroit Economic Zone (DEZ) and shot using the same scanning technol
- In The Robot Skies: A Drone Love StoryDirected by speculative architect Liam Young and written by fiction author Tim Maughan, In the Robot Skies is the world’s first narrative shot entirely through autonomous drones. In collaboration with the Embedded and Artificially intelligent Vision Lab in Belgium the film has evolved in the context of their experiments with specially developed camera drones each programmed with their own cinematic rules and behaviours.
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- EVENT SPEAKER: The Future Of_ Humanity by Liam YoungSpeculative Architect | Provocateur | Technology Storyteller LA-based Liam Young is one half of the think tank, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today. Liam borrows techniques from the worlds of fiction, film and futures and leverages them as imaginative tools to explore the implications and consequences of emerging trends, technologies and ecological conditions as a means to understand our ‘current’ world in new ways. His two most recent projects are world firsts, Where The City Can’t See is the first narrative fiction film shot entirely with laser scanners and In The Robot Skies is shot entirely through autonomous drones, and his sold our show at The Barbican featured a performance by drones and the Velvet Underground's John Cale. Liam discussed The Future Of_Humanity at The Future Of_2017 Festival.2
- 2017 | The Future Of_The Future Of_ is a full day of talks that invites future-shapers to illuminate us with their thoughts on the near and far future. Last year we sold out in 2 weeks and so for 2017 we've doubled our capacity and moved to the heart of Shoreditch at Protein Studios. Starting at 9am and finishing up at 5.30pm, expect a program packed with insights, wonder and unique experiences. Bypassing the ‘middleman’, The Future Of_ is a unique opportunity to directly access the creatives influencing the edges
- The Future Of_ 2017The Future Of_ is a day of talks where we invite future-shapers to share their thoughts on the near and distant future. Get direct access to the creatives who are influencing the edges of tomorrow. For 2017 you'll be taken on a journey where your driverless taxi has been hacked, you can purchase emotions, and chocolate will monitor your health. Last year we sold out in 2 weeks and so we've doubled our capacity and moved to the heart of Shoreditch at Protein Studios. Expect a program packed w17
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London, United KingdomFull Time
The Unknown Fields Division is a nomadic studio that sets off on annual expeditions to the ends of the earth exploring unreal and forgotten landscapes, alien terrains and obsolete ecologies. Join the AA’s Unknown Fields Division as each year we navigate a different global cross section and map the complex and contradictory realities of the present as a site of strange and extraordinary futures.
We are both visionaries and reporters, part documentarian and part science fiction soothsayers as the otherworldly sites we encounter afford us a distanced viewpoint from which to survey the consequences of emerging environmental and technological scenarios.
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TOMORROW'S THOUGHTS TODAY is a London-based futures think tank exploring the consequences of fantastic, perverse and underrated urbanisms. This site is organized as an open sketchbook of our current themes and design projects an ever-expanding repository of our collective research.