The Met and Hyperallergic Present 'In Our Time: Radical Design Geographies with Liam Young'
We're very excited to announce our new two-part fall collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Modern and Contemporary Art!
We’re excited to announce our new fall event collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art!
Addressing “radical design geographies,” the series of two talks — part of the Met’s In Our Time lectures on architecture and design — will explore the new global realities generated by changes in technology, human migration, and the environment.
This Friday, October 23, at 6pm, join us to hear architect and founder of UK-based think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today Liam Young. A cutting-edge architect who operates in the undefined spaces between design, fiction, and futures, Young also co-runs the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio that travels to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. Some of Unknown Fields’ expeditions have lead to the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Galapagos Islands, the mining landscapes of the Australia Outback, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Most recently, Unknown Fields explored a little-known corner of Inner Mongolia that contains a toxic, nightmarish lake created and polluted by the mining of rare earth minerals that quench the contemporary world’s thirst for smartphones, consumer gadgets, and green tech.
Young’s talk will be followed by a conversation with Beatrice Galilee, the museum’s Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design.
Part two of the series will take place on November 13 and will feature writer and editor Shumon Basar, who recently co-authored The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Douglas Coupland. This will be followed by a discussion with our editor-in-chief, Hrag Vartanian. More details to come.
In Our Time is an architecture and design lecture series presenting the best thinkers, makers, and builders of today.
EVENT DETAILS
In Our Time: Radical Design Geographies with Liam Young, Founder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today and Unknown Fields Division
Friday, October 23, 6–7:30pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education
This event is part of MetFridays: New York’s Night Out.
Free with museum admission, but space is limited; entry to program is not guaranteed.
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Refreshments will be served before and after the talk.
