With Tinseltown under lockdown due to coronavirus, a new genre of “virus fiction” or “ViFi” could emerge, says speculative architect and director Liam Young in the first of a series of video messages from creatives around the world recorded as part of our Virtual Design Festival.
“So welcome to the American apocalypse,” Young says in the video message, which was recorded in his studio in downtown LA.
“There are lines outside the gun shops”
“There are lines outside the gun shops after they’ve just reopened having been deemed essential businesses; there are bootleg mask sellers on the street corners and the entire film industry here in LA has been put indefinitely on pause.”
So it means a town of predominantly freelance creatives can no longer pay the rent or buy groceries,” he adds. “So LA, so often the setting for so many sci-fi films, is now a live-action dystopian film playing out in real-time.
Young, who leads the Master of Science in Fiction and Entertainment course at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, was a keynote speaker at the Dezeen Day conference in October last year.
In his Dezeen Day lecture, Young explained why architects and filmmakers should “must all actively shape and define” the future to “help us understand our own world in new ways”.
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