#unknown fields division

Their stated outlook is that of science-fiction soothsayers in some sort of J.G. Ballardian sense - finding the signposts to our alien future embedded in the present. Sometimes this will manifest in actual sci-fi, like in this short film - perhaps a little blunt but a good indication of their global-capitalism-enfolding-social-experience outlook.

The Unknown Fields Division is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions to the ends of the earth to bear witness to alternative worlds, alien landscapes, industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness.

The Unknown Field Division is coordinated by Liam Young and Kate Davies.

_[Unknown Fields Division Showreel 2013](https://vimeo.com/66692318)_, Liam Young > The [Unknown Fields Division](http://www.unknownfieldsdivision.com/) is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions to the ends of the earth to explore peripheral landscapes, industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness. These landscapes - the iconic and the ignored, the excavated, irradiated and the pristine - are embedded in global systems that connect them in surprising and complicated ways to our everyday lives. They are the dislocated hinterlands that lie behind the scenes of modern cities. Each year we navigate a different trajectory as we seek to map the complex and contradictory realities of the present as a site of strange and extraordinary futures. > Here we are both visionaries and reporters, part documentarians and part science fiction soothsayers as the otherworldly sites we encounter afford us a distanced viewpoint from which to survey the consequences of emerging environmental and technological scenarios. Join them for [Treasured Island, Madagascar Expedition](2013http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/unknownfields): 14 days, mid-July to end-July, this summer, 2013.