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My @TED talk on #PlanetCity -an imaginary city for 10 billion people has launched. Watch it at go.ted.com/liamyoung or on the link in bio. Directed and Production Designed by @liam_y with Costume Director/Producer @anecrabtree , VFX supervisor @Alexeymarfin and original score by @ForestSwords and @emelmathlouthi Planet City book published with @bookshop_by_uro Planet City is a film and book set in an imaginary city for 10 billion people, the entire population of the earth, where we surrender the rest of the world to a global scaled wilderness and the return of stolen lands. The film follows a continuous festival procession dancing through the city on a 365 day loop. Each day it intersects with a different carnival, culture and celebration, changing the beat as it goes, endlessly cycling through new colors, costumes and cacophonies. Director @liam_y Production Design @liam_y Visual Effects Supervisor @alexeymarfin Costume Director/Producer @anecrabtree Original Score @forestswords Vocals @emelmathlouthi Visual Effects Case Miller @amansheth007 @viviane.el.kmati Yucong Wang Lead Researcher @mmdzxp.fx Researcher @Piercze Narrative Consultant Jennifer Chen Performed by @david_adrian @beingspontaneous and @migue_tumale @joyisabellabrown of @jacobjonasthecompany West Coast Costume Assistant @courtneymtchll East Coast Costume Assistant @dobs_ny Costume Artists @holly__mcquillan @k.m.peterson @kw.textiles (Zero Waste Weavers), @aneesashami (High Altitude Bot Herder), @yeohleeinc (Code Talker), @courtneymtchll (Beekeeper), @anecrabtree (Nomadic Worker, Algae Diver, Drone Shepard) Fiber Artist @janice_arnold Mask Artists @liam_y @zeemonday @aneesashami Costume Still Photography @drielycarter Costume stills Photoshoot Produced by @evachedda Commissioned by @NGVMelbourne & @ewanmceoin #productiondesign #archdaily #empireoffuture #visual_creatorz #renderzone #thegraphicspr0ject #designboom #xuxoe #ig_underground #scifi #cyberpunk #solarpunk #scifiart #enter_imagination #conceptart #conceptdesign #architecturefactor #cyberpunk_cities #conceptartist #futurecity #dystopian #utopia #ted #tedtalk

As visual consultant for the @appletv film Swan Song we explored how augmented reality might operate in this grounded sci fi world. In contrast to typical cyberpunk representations of augmented reality where translucent glowing holograms fill the skyline these digital objects would appear solid, tangible and minimal. Starring @mahershalaali @naomieharris @awkwafina Directed by Ben Cleary with Production design by @anniebeauchampdesign Producers @anoncontent @professor_cod @rebecca_bourke On our team was also @sciarc @fictionandentertainment grads @jatafa + @andrezakhya both credited with me as Concept Animators on the film. #swansong #worldbuilding #scifi #applestudios #conceptart #conceptdesign #futures #AR #augmentedreality #XR #previs #futuretech #liamyoung #metaverse

Imagine every human being on Earth living in a single city. Planet City is a radical cinematic thought experiment by architect and filmmaker @liam_y , envisioning a hyper-dense, hyper-diverse metropolis built to house all of humanity while the rest of the Earth is rewilded. Compressing questions of climate, migration and resource distribution into a singular immersive experience, the film asks what our future could look like if we radically reimagined the planet. Join us for a screening of Planet City, accompanied by a live performance by composer, artist and designer @forestswords . 🇹🇷 Mimar ve sinemacı Liam Young, film ve canlı performansı birlikte barındıran Planet City adlı özgün eserini anlatıyor; dünyadaki tüm insanların tek bir şehirde yaşadığını hayal edin. Yoğun, çeşitliliği ve her şeyi büyük bir “çoklukla” barındıran ütopik bir metropol düşünün. Dünyanın geri kalanı ise yeniden doğaya dönmüş. Liam Young; iklim, göç ve kaynak dağılımı gibi konuları tek bir deneyime sığdıran bir düşünce deneyine sizi davet ediyor. Planet City; sanatçı, tasarımcı ve besteci Forest Swords’ün canlı performansı eşliğinde gösterimde olacak. Interested in attending? 🎟️ A limited number of complimentary tickets are available via our link in bio. ✦Day 01 / Session 03 ✦Planet City ✦13:00PM ✦Thursday 14 May ✦Hagia Irene, Topkapi Palace Complex #GDFI26 #GlobalDesignForumIstanbul #GDF

How would you imagine the future? Rooted in real technology and climate solutions, our new immersive exhibition ‘In Other Worlds’ has been created by artist, director and BAFTA-nominated producer @liam_y . Collaborating with the leading voices in science, film, literature and TV, discover multiple worlds that tell stories what our future could look like. 🔮 Through large scale films, soundscapes and stories dare to ask yourself the question: could we actually build hopeful worlds together? Step into the future, and imagine where humanity could go 🌎 In Other Worlds opens Thu 21 May Tickets on sale now in the linkinbio 🎟️ Film credit: Film clips from Planet City (2021), Emissary (2025) and After the End (2024) by Liam Young. Courtesy of the artist. In partnership with Panorama St Pauls. A development by Orion Capital Managers. #londonart #immersive #earthday

Planetary Imaginaries Exhibition by Liam Young With Stories by @lisajoynolan , Kim Stanley Robinson, @clairegcoleman , Chen Qiufan, and @wangasx @sciarc Gallery Los Angeles. January 30, 2026 at 6:00pm - March 08, 2026 at 6:00pm 10-6pm everyday. Free parking at 350 Merrick st Our relationship to the future has forever been filtered through the delirium of our imagined worlds. For centuries, we have fled into fictions to wrestle with the unbearable questions of our own making. Now, at the edge of catastrophe, when the very idea of a future trembles, our generation is called to the quiet, defiant labor of hope, to find light when the world grows dark. Created by director and worldbuilder Liam Young and expanded through collaborations with graphic designer @neasdencontrolcentre and acclaimed science fiction authors drawn from across the globe, Planetary Imaginaries presents a chorus of stories that sprawl from the microscopic to the planetary. Across films and fragments, movie miniatures and ceremonial costumes, action figures and speculative architectures, the exhibition maps a constellation of fictional worlds, visions of wondrous resistance and new mythologies for an Earth remade. Encounter stories of infrastructures that resemble mountains and oceans, where computation becomes cathedral, where islands bloom atop the drowned spires of oil rigs turned to coral, where megacities fold inward to make room for planetary parks, and indigenous rockets rise from the rusting lungs of gas fields, where a spacecraft, our last emissary, drifts into the deep silence between stars. Stories weathered by the sobering knowledge that our hopeful futures are written in the geology of a once wounded earth. Here, within these Planetary Imaginaries, we are called to dream again, to invent new worlds that are a testimony to our boundless desires and our fragile chance to begin.

First round applications for places and scholarships in our @sciarc @fictionandentertainment post grad masters program close on Jan 16. Join us in LA for the 1 yr STEM accredited masters LA and build careers in film, video games, animation, VFX, media arts and immersive experiences SCI Arc’s STEM accredited Masters in Fiction and Entertainment is a one-year post grad program where students work with world-renowned professionals from LA’s entertainment industry to build careers in Film, Video Games, Animation, VFX, Immersive and Media Arts. The highly bespoke curriculum simultaneously creates space for students to develop their own imaginary worlds, interests and passions while directly focusing on preparation for careers that will continue to propel their professional practice after graduation and help them to transition into their chosen field. The first round application and scholarship deadline is January 16th for classes beginning in September 2026. Second round applications close March 15th. Student work, graduate experiences and enrollment details are here- www.sciarc.edu/fiction Our new showreel is edited together from graduates work created by- @ploysjin @j_asava @jatafa @ahhslay @blazevillanueva @Miriam_Kuhlmann @jeremykamal @andrezakhya @ab_thkkr @cmstamm @_iilens_ @ss_sarasimon @hsin_lu @mabe.benavides @s_atharva @rickfarin @koshymanu @harrietoncrack @enagudo @leonn_zk @who.is.hu @jimmyhcx

I am excited to launch The Drone Shepherd, a graphic novel in VR set within the speculative future of #PlanetCity a single city for housing the entire population of earth. The experience is on now screening at the @artsciencemuseumsg Singapore before touring around the world. The Drone Shepherd is a VR graphic novel built from hundreds of hand-painted illustrations, each coming alive with animation, a cast of voice performances and a new score and soundscape by acclaimed electronic producer Forest Swords. As the comic pages unfurl around the audience, they meet a former shepherd who is fleeing his dying family farm as it is ravaged by climate collapse, and follow his long journey through the dismantled ruins of the old world to the shores of Planet City. There food is grown in towering, automated vertical farms bathed in artificial light and glowing algae canals and wildflower blooms snake between the buildings. Initially assigned to care for the agricultural drones, he resents his new life but soon connects with one of the orchard bots he comes to call Echo.  When his mentor, a bitter traditionalist, plots to burn the automated farms, the shepherd must choose whether to cling to his past or embrace the Planet City future.  Written and Illustrated By Liam Young @liam_y Original Score Forest Swords @forestswords Graphic Design Neasden Control Center @neasdencontrolcentre Producers  Well Played Studios @wellplayedstudiosvr Project Team James Clark, Elliot Ordower @eordower Kj Savinelli, Orin Torati @orintorati Commissioned By @artsciencemuseumsg Singapore @honorharger Curated by @_jeromechee_ @teemehblah

Announcing our new exhibition ‘Another World Is Possible’ at the @artsciencemuseumsg Singapore. It is an exhibition on the future, exploring the practice of world-building across cinema, architecture, design, and speculative fiction. Sprawling speculative terrains. Hyper-dense cities. Planetary megastructures. Unfolding across seven chapters, Another World Is Possible transports you into cinematic worlds where ecological architecture and literary futures come alive. In a world saturated with dystopian imaginaries, where chaos, collapse, anxiety and ecological devastation dominate our visions of tomorrow, the exhibition Another World Is Possible emerges as an intervention of hope. Anchored several projects from my @liam_y studio (Planet City, After the End, The Great Endeavour, World Machine), the exhibition invites visitors to step inside abundant speculative worlds that urge us to examine how imagination and design are pertinent mediums in crafting tomorrow's possibilities. The future is not something we inherit—it is something we co-create. Another world is not only possible; it is already imagined here. Designers, artists and contributors include:@bjork @cdprojektred @clyne_design @dbbd.sg @thomas_dubois_art @voltagectrlr @andrewthomashuang @kidcadaver @voidness__ @jasonpomeroy_arch @jakob_kudsk_steensen @osheen.siva @sutu.eats.flies @wangasx @woha_architects @youthsinbalaclava Another World Is Possible is co-curated by ArtScience Museum (Joel Chin, Adrian George, @honorharger Joshua Lau, Charleen Leo) and @Liam_y with the support of the @designsingapore The exhibition is a sequel to The Future and Other Fictions, curated and developed by @acmionline Melbourne, Australia, co-curated with Liam Young, and based on an original concept by @elmsly

Described by the BCC as ‘the man designing our futures’, architect, director, and BAFTA nominated producer, Liam Young @liam_y , presents a storytelling performance at the Institute of Modern Art. Operating at the juncture of design, fiction, and futures, Young returns to his hometown of Brisbane to present a screenscape of alternative and hopeful worlds. Slipping between fiction and documentary, this presentation will showcase images of tomorrow and illuminate the environmental questions of today. This program contributes to an ongoing architecture discussion series led by Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Queensland, and Andrew Leach, Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology. New Planetary Imageries with Liam Young Thursday 18 December, 6pm Free, all welcome. 🔗 Ticket link in bio.

First round scholarships and applications for our @sciarc @fictionandentertainment post grad masters program close on Jan 16. Join us in LA for the 1 yr STEM accredited masters and build careers in film, video games, animation, VFX, media arts and immersive experiences SCI Arc’s STEM accredited Masters in Fiction and Entertainment is a one-year post grad program where students work with world-renowned professionals from LA’s entertainment industry to build careers in Film, Video Games, Animation, VFX, Immersive and Media Arts. The highly bespoke curriculum simultaneously creates space for students to develop their own imaginary worlds, interests and passions while directly focusing on preparation for careers that will continue to propel their professional practice after graduation and help them to transition into their chosen field. The first round application and scholarship deadline is January 16th for classes beginning in September 2026. Student work, graduate experiences and enrollment details are here- www.sciarc.edu/fiction 01– SCI ARC Fiction & Entertainment Student Work Showreel @fictionandentertainment 02- A Place to Call Home, Directed by Jin Jindawitchu @ploysjin 03- Himmapan, Directed by Jay Asava @j_asava 04- Himmapan, Directed by Jay Asava @j_asava 05- A Place to Call Home, Directed by Jin Jindawitchu @ploysjin 06- A Place to Call Home, Directed by Jin Jindawitchu @ploysjin 07- Himmapan, Directed by Jay Asava @j_asava 08- Earth Mother Sky Father, Directed by Kordae Jatafa Henry @jatafa 09- Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in Virtual Reality, Directed by Ainslee Alem Robson @ahhslay 10- COLLAPSE | BODY | FORM, Directed by Blaze Gonzalez @blazevillanueva 11- Mercury XX, Directed by Miriam Kuhlmann @ Miriam_Kuhlmann 12- Mojo: The Floods, Directed by Jeremy Kamal @jeremykamal 13- Where Turtles Fly, Game Designer Andre Zakhya @andrezakhya 14- Strata, Directed by Abhishek Thakkar @ab_thkkr 15- Alien vs Predator, Set Designer Casey Stamm @cmstamm 16- Decrypt, Animation Director Helen Mak @_iilens_ 17- Kissing Infrared, Artist Sara Simon @ss_sarasimon

Originally conceived by PACT Founder @elmsly (via The Future & Other Fictions at @acmionline ), this exhibition was evolved and expanded by ArtScience Museum into Another World Is Possible, a project that shows how imagination becomes a tool for redesigning the future. Here, PACT Member @liam_y shares how the exhibition brings together imaginary worlds that offer hopeful and nuanced alternatives to the futures we are used to seeing. Another World Is Possible is now on view at ArtScience Museum, Singapore from 13 September 2025 to 22 February 2026. • • • • • • #explorepage #liamyoung #imaginaryworlds #futures #anotherworldispossible