This fall at SCI-Arc, the school’s graduate Fiction and Entertainment program director Liam Young will present Views of Planet City as part of the regional PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition organized by The Getty Museum.

Young is known for his fictional alternative proposal of the same name that posits a future in which humanity has been resettled to one singular megacity benefiting the natural systems that keep the blue planet healthy while reversing centuries of colonialization through a converse process called ‘rewilding.’

"As an imaginary world, Planet City is continually being inhabited, explored, and fleshed out across multiple mediums and platforms. It was originally conceived of as a film, a mix of live-action costumes and actors and CGI backgrounds but has now evolved as a VR experience, a book, and a TED talk," Young tells Archinect. "For PST I am developing Planet City as a graphic novel and a set of large-scale, physical movie miniature models and I have also invited four other artists to inhabit this world and develop their own unique projects within it."

The exhibition will be co-hosted in two locations, split between the  SCI-Arc Gallery and Pacific Design Center in Hollywood. 

The former opens on September 13th, while the Design Center portion begins the following day. Pacific Standard Time is celebrating its third iteration this year and will include 60 separate exhibitions staged across the Southern California region. Young will incorporate a number of new components that have evolved in his work recently alongside supplementary research from fellow SCI-Arc faculty Jennifer Chen, John Cooper, Damjan Jovanovic, and Angelica Lorenzi.

SCI-Arc shares, “Views of Planet City challenges dystopian visions of the future, offering both an immersive, interactive experience and a blueprint for a sustainably urbanized planet. [...] It is a collaborative exhibition of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists, and advisors. In Views of Planet City, we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics."

A closer exploration of Young's work from our 2015 Archinect Sessions One-to-One interview can be found here.