This audacious, family-friendly immersive exhibition from filmmaker and ‘speculative architect’ Liam Young takes over the Barbican for a few months and offers a series of wild imagined ideas about what the future of humanity might look like – speculative, of course, but rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities. Which maybe sounds a bit doomy, but Young’s takes on the future are pointedly not dystopian, and asks us to hope rather than despair.
It’s his first UK exhibition, but he’s enlisted a few friends to help out, with voices provided by Sky at Night host Dame Dr Maggie Aderin and actors Richard Ayoade, Alma Pöysti, Adam Young, Denise Gough and Natasha Wanganeen.
Exactly what will be involved precisely is a little hard to imagine from the fairly wild provided images (which are all film stills), but it should be pretty damn spectacular.
