Tomorrows Storeys: A Future Athens Megablock

Tomorrows Storeys is set in a continuous urban mass in a future Athens where each citizen is not given a minimum basic income but rather a minimum basic floor area, a percentage of the volume of a building but not a fixed location. The block is a portrayal of a new form of urban organisation where a building is reformatted like a Facebook page and a diverse group of occupants are collapsed together in radical juxtapositions as they roam across the floors, following functions that are shifting by the hour. This is just one temporary moment in a block of endless configurations, a window into a speculative building, the city that surrounds it and the lives it contains

In the film we drift from room to room, eavesdropping in on the overheard conversations of the occupants of a near future apartment block. Beginning two months prior to the opening of Documenta, architect Liam Young organised a public think tank consisting of a group of Science fiction authors, visual artists, directors, photographers and architects, aiming to produce a series of critical fictions about the future of Athens. Through discussions, illustrations and speculations, the working group authored a series of short stories set within the walls of a single imaginary apartment block, collectively constructing narratives of the future life of city citizens.

With stories written by Liam Young, Bruce Sterling, James Bridle, Leigh Alexander, Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Marina Gioti.

VFX Supervisor Alexey Marfin.
Animators Paul Krist, Aman Sheth, Kiran Nayak, Andi Zhang.
Supported by the Onassis Cultural Centre for ‘Tomorrows’, Athens.