If everyone shared a single city, we might just solve climate change, says Australian-born “world builder” Liam Young.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Liam Young is trying to save the world – or, at least, show the world how to save itself. The Australian-born, LA-based architect and filmmaker has designed an imaginary world in which the Earth’s entire population lives in a vertical metropolis that takes up only 2 per cent of the planet’s land mass.Liam Young: Planetary Redesign
Liam Young, Planet City, 2020 colour digital video, sound 15 min. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.“The city’s patina comes from a reuse and collage aesthetic [using] the simple design rule that we wouldn’t extract any new resources or touch virgin land,” Young explains. “[How do you] make a new city that isn’t about a tabula rasa, which is what all the modernist [visions] are like?”The idea for this vision of mind-boggling density was triggered by biologist Edward O.
“I wanted to engage audiences of a scale that don’t turn up at this exhibition at the NGV or to my lectures,” he says. “I don’t think entertainment and critical ideas need to be mutually exclusive. [Hollywood] films are like Trojan horses. There’s still going to be giant interplanetary super villains smashing up that city. But maybe that city will also be a blueprint for new ways of living. We can embed within them important ideas.
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