\t\t\t\t\tLiam Young\u2019s immersive experience \u2018In Other Worlds,\u2019 courtesy of Thomas Adank\/Barbican Immersive<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\u201cOperating in the spaces between design, fiction and futures, these works immerse us in the consequences and opportunities of the decisions we make today,\u201d explains a Barbican description of In Other Worlds<\/em>. \u201cIt is about stepping away from dystopia, asking: what if the future could actually be\u2026 hopeful?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAnd Young, whom the BBC has described as \u201cthe man designing our futures,\u201d highlights: \u201cThe future doesn\u2019t rush over us like water. It\u2019s not something that happens to us. It\u2019s an act of creation. It\u2019s something we make, moment by moment, together.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAdds Luke Kemp, head of creative programming, Barbican Immersive: \u201cThe immersive program at the Barbican is a place to explore some of the most important topics of our times that place the visitor at the heart of the experience. It is hugely exciting to be working with Liam Young and his collaborators on this major exhibition, as now is the time to once again look for new stories, imagine different futures and create the worlds that we want to exist, rather than the ones that are being created for us. These wondrous environments created with leading talents will take us closer to what the possibilities could be.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIndeed, during a press preview of In Other Worlds<\/em> on Thursday, Young highlighted that he and his creative collaborators wanted to showcase \u201cspeculative worlds that act as rehearsals for future, for the world to come.\u201d And it may be his first U.K. solo exhibition, but he emphasized that, similarly to how in film the director may be a public face but not the only creative force, the experience at the Barbican could never have been completed without all his partners. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tLiam Young\u2019s immersive experience \u2018In Other Worlds,\u2019 courtesy of Thomas Adank\/Barbican Immersive<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tAmong the ideas you come across during your immersive journey are the World Machine, Technoglomerates, or stones \u201cforged from the raw materials of artificial intelligence,\u201d a new Aboriginal space industry and Planet City, \u201ca single city for the entire population of Earth,\u201d meaning a metropolis for 10 billion people with 7,000 languages that is stacked in layers, while the rest of the planet returns to the wild. Despite its population density, Planet City is \u201cfull of hope, life, diversity and holidays, festivals, and carnivals,\u201d Young offers. \u201cPlanet City becomes one giant party.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSome of the worlds you get to experience may seem dark, but the creator wants to send visitors home with hope. \u201cIn Other Worlds<\/em> is an attempt to create a collection of visions for a hopeful future,\u201d Young highlights. \u201cWhat we tried to do with the show was create an entry point to talk about what the future could be and to create a shared conversation. [It\u2019s] a rallying cry or a call to arms to say the future at this point in time needs to be a project again in this very urgent and critical moment, where it sometimes feels very difficult to be hopeful about our future in many ways. That\u2019s the project of our generation, I think \u2013 finding ways to be hopeful amidst the darkness.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tSimilarly to how the exhibition is designed to break new ground in terms of immersive experiences and new ideas, it also takes visitors beyond the regular spaces of the Barbican to end in its car park, or parking garage. No boundaries for our imagination and ideas!<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tLiam Young\u2019s immersive experience \u2018In Other Worlds,\u2019 courtesy of Thomas Adank\/Barbican Immersive<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tIndeed, the Barbican experience that In Other Worlds<\/em> offers is \u201cnot a collection of solutions, but rather an attempt to reorientate us around new visions for a future that operate at planetary scales,\u201d Young emphasizes. \u201cA lot of the images you see are quite provocative or confrontational. They\u2019re challenging in the sense that they don\u2019t necessarily look like what we\u2019re trained to think of as hopeful images of the future. There are no trees on rooftops or small-scale community gardens in Brooklyn. Instead, there are massive infrastructural works, large-scale geoengineering and atmospheric transformations. They are images that attempt to meet the scale of the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAfter all, \u201cthe crises that we face are no longer crises of technology, but rather crises of the imagination,\u201d Young concludes. \u201cIt is the result of our own biases and blind spots, politics and prejudices. If we wanted to, we could wake up tomorrow and change everything about how we do the world, and that is a potentially really powerful place to be \u2013 on the cutting edge of the potential for change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new and star-studded immersive experience at London\u2019s Barbican Centre invites us to explore \u201cimagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities,\u201d and imagine a better one. 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