Liam Young

Liam Young (b.1979, Brisbane, Australia) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Young is a designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer renowned for his visionary films and speculative worlds at the intersection of design, fiction, and futures. Embodying the role of a worldbuilder, he visualises the cities, spaces and props of our imaginary futures for the film and television industry, offering both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today.

Young’s films have been premiered with platforms ranging from Channel 4, Apple+, SxSW, Tribeca, the New York Metropolitan Museum, The Royal Academy, La Biennale di Venezia, the BBC and the Guardian. His films have been collected internationally by museums such as MoMA New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, and M+ Hong Kong. His film work is informed by his academic research, and he has held guest professorships at Princeton University, MIT, and Cambridge and now runs the groundbreaking Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI Arc in Los Angeles. Young has been acclaimed in both mainstream and design media including features with TED, Wired, New Scientist, Arte, Canal+, and Time magazine. He has published several books including most recently Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene and Planet City (2019).