Expo 2020 Gbadolite
Super Terra Forming - joint African pavilion
"Finding Your Place in the World
The impact of global climate change is upsetting the balance of the world in a multitude of ways. Seasonal weather patterns have become erratic and animal migratory patterns confused. Vast areas land and entire islands have disappeared into the rising oceans. Displaced people are compounding economic and political pressures on the world’s governments as they try to accomodate these so-called climate refugees. Some states have fallen all together in the process and we are also beginning to see organized masses of displaced people operating as nomadic states. It is in this context that many of our conventional markers of certainty have vanished, and we are forced to reevaluate the meaning of where we are now and where we are going. Next to this dark picture however are the governments and corporations of the world who are trying to outrun this tragic scenario by boldy stepping out towards a future that sets humanity on the right path again. The Expo 2020’s Finding Your Place in the World theme is all about this journey. Through the pavilions being presented here, visitors will discover the unprecedented way in which they operate as an interconnected web of service and infrastructure to convert one of the most remote and empoverished areas of the globe into a model for the future of sustainable human habitation. The essential message here is that finding your place is also about making your place.
Pavilions
Expo 2020 Gbadolite will exist within a network of pavilions with Gbadolite in its heart. Pavilions is almost a symbolic title for projects that range from power plants and icebergs to temples and traditional medicine. Out of an immense variety of proposals countries and corporations had to select one project that would both express their most forward-thinking concepts and ideas, and serve the development goals of Expo 2020."
Liquid Network - Desertec pavilion
Indian Climate Shapers Association pavilion
"The decision to host the Expo 2020 in the DRC was crucial to this process and set the conditions for realizing promises and plans on the ground. A flood of large-scale development projects followed, transforming the region at an unbelievable pace. The empowerment brought by this trust and engagement among the general population led to many militant groups laying down their arms and joining the extraordinarily large work force to build the future of their own country and re-establish its valued traditions. From agriculture to transportation, cellular communications and water supply systems, positive change brought improvement to everything that was in need of repair and filled the gaps where something was entirely missing. A myriad of the latest construction technologies and materials never seen before even in industrial centers of the developed world, were deployed in this effort. The DRC became a base for bold new experiments and paradigm shifts in nearly all major sectors of the economy and environmentally sustainable policies. The place was radically transformed, yet the important aspects of its unique nature were kept for the most part intact, becoming more cherished and protected than ever before."
Fertile Foundations - Landkom-Ukraine pavilion
Harvesting Spheres - Agricon Colombia pavilion
Philips pavilion
"Nano Waste
Expo 2020 Gbadolite came as a hurricane to the DRC. So ambitious were the formations, they imitated God. Communities, forests, wars, beliefs and life itself were crushed under their impact. Traces of construction sites reappeared in remote places. Nature bended and mutilated the remains in its own ways. It has itself, also changed. Land was infiltrated by an overflow of technological waste and artificial life. Tribes of energy scavengers settled around the sites. Thousands of newcomers stayed, native settlements displaced. Known as nano waste, the expo matter became the main source of wealth and a cause of dispute. Soon several armed groups divided the waste sites between each other. Once there was nothing left to grab around them, people started to look for leftovers in the surrounding jungle. Collected artifacts and fragments usually make their way to nearby villages and camps. Waste is then sorted into various kinds: energy harvesting, optical metamaterials, bionic enhancers... It is shared by the lords, sold on the market or left at the wait-and-see grounds. The virtues and qualities of it are often difficult to foresee. Life is strange as no one knows what will come next."
Expo 2020 Identities
Cha City flag
Ba City flag
Tu City flag
