From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
SCI-Arc's MS Fiction and Entertainment program is led by Liam Young, a speculative architect who features in Dezeen's award-winning documentary Elevation and is one of the speakers at Dezeen Day.
The course links students with professionals including filmmakers, animators and video game producers and encourages them to use the practices of popular culture to imagine future worlds.
Highlights of work produced on the course included a VR journey through floating waste in the ocean, a film that explores a future Los Angeles ravaged by wildfires, a fashion editorial set in a world ruled by god-like queer colossi and an imagined landscape transformed by vast machines in response to music. Here are the four standout projects from this years' graduates:

The Pantheon of Queer Mythology by Enrique Agudo
Enrique Agudo's short film The Pantheon of Queer Mythology presents viewers with a series of god-like figures set within intricate and fantastical 3D environments, each representative of a different aspect of the contemporary queer experience.
The colossal figures at the centre of the film, which Agudo describes as "a fashion editorial in virtual space", wear outfits that were styled on real models. The outfits were turned into digital fig...