Immersive future-facing exhibition 'In Other Worlds' lands at the Barbican next month

What if the future isn’t something that happens to us, but something that we can collectively imagine?

There's a brand-new immersive exhibition coming to the Barbican next month, one that steps into the future of humanity and immerses you in the consequences and opportunities of the decisions we make today.

Running from 21st May to 6th September 2026, In Other Worlds is the latest large-scale experience from BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, artist and speculative architect Liam Young, inviting visitors into a series of imagined futures that step away from dystopia, asking: what if the future could actually be... hopeful?

Tickets and more information on Liam Young's In Other Worlds can be found on the Barbican Website 

Spanning three locations within the Barbican Centre (the Silk Street Entrance, The Curve and Car Park 5), the exhibition unfolds as a sequence of cinematic installations where world-building, fiction, design and climate science collide. Expect everything from audio narratives and large-scale visuals to tapestries, costumes and soundscapes, all working together to build a collection of speculative worlds rooted in real-world possibilities.

Created in collaboration with leading voices across film, science and the arts, the experience is brought to life through narration from an impressive cast, including Dame Dr Maggie Aderin and Richard Ayoade, guiding visitors through these imagined futures and the choices that shape them.

This marks Liam Young’s first major UK solo exhibition, and sees him continue to blur the lines between fiction and reality, using world-building as a tool to explore not just what the future might look like, but how we might actively shape it. Explore Liam's past world-building works like 'After The End', 'The Great Endeavour, and more on his (rather fun to use) website now. 

As Young himself puts it: “The future doesn't rush over us like water. It's not something that happens to us. It's an act of creation. It's something we make, moment by moment, together.”

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Header image credit: Film still from After the End (2024) by Liam Young. Image courtesy of the artist