LIAM YOUNG

Speculative Architect, Futurist & Technology Storyteller

SELECTED SPEAKING TOPICS:

Future of technology
Speculative Futures
Artificial Intelligence
Innovation

‘When one of Germany’s most sceptic bloggers tweets he hasn’t heard a more fascinating keynote in a long time, than you did something right as an event organiser. This is exactly what happened after Liam’s talk. It was an absolute highlight that’s different from anything else we've seen before.’

- DHL Innovation Conference -

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. His speculative futures think tank, Tomorrows Thoughts Today, is a practice that works across science, technology and architecture. Using fiction, film and performance, he explores the potential consequences of current emerging technologies and ecological conditions.

Liam Young speculative architect.jpg — Liam Young delivers a hyper-immersive talk in Copenhagen

To ground his design fiction practice in the realities of the present, Young also co-founded award winning nomadic workshop ‘Unknown Fields’, it travels to the extreme corners of the globe to investigate emerging trends and uncover possible futures. Expeditions involve taking a group of designers to remote locations, like the world’s biggest lithium deposit in Bolivia or sapphire mines in Madagascar, and while at the source of the action they workshop how the near future might look or feel. Scroll down below videos that were recorded on these beautiful yet haunting trips.

Australian born but based in London and Los Angeles, Young's most notable project, ‘Loop 60Hz:Transmissions from the Drone Orchestra’, a collaboration with John Cale of the Velvet Underground, was a sellout live performance. Young’s work has featured in Wired, Time Magazine, NBC, BBC, and Dazed and Confused; he also splits his time between the U.S and UK where he holds academic positions at Princeton University and Architectural Association, respectively.