Not For Us: Squatting the Ruins of Our Robot Utopia: An Interview with Paul Inglis, Supervising Art Director of <i>Blade Runner 2049</i>

Abstract

A lonely world where everyone who can has fled, and those who remain dwell amid the remnants of environments designed for machines rather than people: this is the vision of Earth in three decades’ time that is the backdrop to the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 . Guest‐Editor Liam Young talks to supervising art director Paul Inglis and presents the work of concept artist Victor Martinez to explore how the team conceived this dystopian landscape.