{"id":2899,"date":"2013-01-21T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:56:56","slug":"open-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2013\/01\/21\/open-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture: Liam Young: Brave New Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday 23rd January 2013<\/li>\n<li>6PM<\/li>\n<li>Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055<\/li>\n<li>Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2900\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/120123_flyer_LiamYoung.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/120123_flyer_LiamYoung.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/120123_flyer_LiamYoung-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Liam Young will take us on a storytelling walking tour through the Brave New Now, an imaginary city, extrapolated from the wonders and possibilities of emerging biological and technological\u00a0research, somewhere between the real and the imagined, stitched together from fragments of\u00a0distant landscapes and speculative designed fictions.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures.\u00a0He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms. He also runs the \u2018Unknown Fields Division\u2019, a nomadic studio that travels on annual expeditions to the ends of the earth to investigate\u00a0unreal and forgotten landscapes, alien terrains and industrial ecologies. Liam\u2019s projects\u00a0develop fictional speculations as critical instruments to survey the consequences of emerging\u00a0environmental and technological futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 23rd January 2013 6PM Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055 Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Liam Young will take us on a storytelling walking tour through the Brave New Now, an imaginary city, extrapolated from the wonders and possibilities of emerging biological and technological\u00a0research, somewhere between the real and the imagined, stitched together from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-open-lectures"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}