This is the first Fall 2015 Public Programs event held at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning (B/a+p) as part of an intermittent series called "Shipping Architecture." The series evokes the urban definition of 'shipping' (relationships or 'ships') by pairing speakers whose work may have as-yet unknown relationships. 'Shipping' serves as a structure for new discourse while being playfully provocative. "Young Candy" features Liam Young (Architectural Association, London; Princeton School of Architecture) and Stuart Candy (OCAD University, Toronto), followed by discussion with the audience. Stuart Candy is a producer, strategist, educator, and professional futurist with a specific interest in experiential futures. His talk, "Shipping Presents and Futures," shows how design can be used to explore particular scenarios, situations, and stuff from [alternative] futures to catalyze insight and change, while offering a mental infrastructure as a means to achieve possibilities of what the future will be: to move from unexperienceable to the experienceable and ultimately have an impact in the present. Examples of work covered include Hawaii 2050 (2006); Found Futures: Chinatown (2007); Hawaii: The Lost Years (2008); Superstruct (2008); Coral Cross (2009); Plastic Century (2010); The Thing From the Future (2014); Futurematic Vending Machine (2014); Futurematic Canal Street (2014); and 1-888-FUTURES (2015). Liam Young is an architect, speculative designer, and technology storyteller who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. He is founder of the urban futures think tank 'Tomorrows Thoughts Today,' a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, perverse, and imaginary urbanisms, and runs the ‘Unknown Fields Division’, an award winning nomadic workshop that travels on annual expeditions to the ends of the earth to investigate unreal and forgotten landscapes, alien terrains, and industrial ecologies. His presentation, "City Everywhere: Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen," exaggerates the present and plays out observations being made about possible futures to look back upon a world we already know with fresh eyes by traveling to 'City Everywhere' with a fictional Kim Kardashian. The story is stitched together of real places from 'Unknown Fields' and explores the physical landscape of technology and emerging trends with a narrative of alternative fictional technology to create new relationships, new technology, and a new community. Sponsored by the Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning (ap.buffalo.edu) and the Department of Media Study (mediastudy.buffalo.edu)

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