Liam Young: “Product Design And Landscape Design Are The Same Act”

Interview: Zaš Brezar in Featured ArticlesInterviewLandezine TalksSelected Articles
Central topics: Supply Chain LandscapesPlanetary UrbanizationWorld-Ecology

Liam Young is together with Kate Davies running the Unknown Fields project. They travel around the world and explore landscapes behind objects we used on a daily basis: materials for our phones, fabrics for clothes, lithium for batteries … We caught Liam in Ljubljana, where he was narrating Unknown Fields film live.

 


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Interviewer: Zaš Brezar

Zaš Brezar (b. 1984, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Slovenia) is founder and editor-in-chief of Landezine. Educated as a landscape architect (University of Ljubljana), he spent several years in practice, later establishing Landezine in 2009. He is focused on the production of space, specifically mapping, tracing and interpreting the course of landscape architecture and questioning its role in society and politics of public space.

Featured Voice: Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect and filmmaker who explores the global systems and landscapes that sustain everyday technologies. With Kate Davies, he co-runs the Unknown Fields project, tracing supply chains behind objects such as phones, clothes, and batteries. He directs the MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc, and curated Views of Planet City for Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, an exhibition reimagining planetary futures through art and design.

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