Join us at the IMA for a storytelling performance with architect, director, and BAFTA-nominated producer Liam Young.

Operating at the juncture of design, fiction, and futures, Young returns to his hometown of Meanjin/Brisbane to present a screenscape of alternative, hopeful worlds. Slipping between fiction and documentary, his presentation will showcase images of tomorrow and illuminate the environmental questions of today.

Young has been described by the BBC as ‘the man designing our futures’. As a world builder, he visualises the cities, spaces, and props of our imaginary futures for the film and television industry. His films have premiered with platforms ranging from Channel 4, Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Biennale, the BBC, and The Guardian, and have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian, Washington DC; Art Institute of Chicago; SF MoMA, San Francisco; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne.

In parallel to his work in entertainment, Young is in demand as one of the world’s foremost futurists, consulting on next-generation technologies and designs for clients such as Nike, BMW, Google, Sony, Mitsubishi, Wired, Showtime, Microsoft, Ford, and NASA. Young’s work is informed by academic research and he’s held guest professorships at Princeton University, MIT, and Cambridge, and now runs the groundbreaking Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI Arc, Los Angeles. He has published several books including Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene and Planet City, a story of a fictional city for the entire population of the earth.

Off Grid is a series of architecture discussions led by Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Queensland, and Andrew Leach, Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology, both Meanjin/Brisbane.