Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan concluded with a final dialogue on sustainability and innovation. Throughout the event, the Theme Weeks offered a platform for different sections of society to exchange ideas on how to create a better tomorrow.
The six-month run of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan concluded with its final two theme weeks, entitled The Future of Earth and Biodiversity and SDGs + Beyond Future Society for Life, focusing on the planet and its people.
Thematic Project Producer Kawamori Shoji designed the Live Earth Journey Pavilion, where visitors got to travel across different realities to rethink where humans fit in our ecosystem.
“I created this work with the hope of conveying that many creatures we don’t normally see in a city exist, and that we are living together with them,” he said.
During The Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week, CEO and Co-founder of WRÅD Matteo Ward stressed there is “no one single brand, technology, legislation” to solve the industry’s problems, a holistic approach is needed. Inclusive technology took centre stage, as Japanese company Raise the Flag Co., Ltd., led by director Takeshi Nakamura, unveiled an AI-powered headset to help the visually impaired “see” the world.
Panel sessions brought together organisers past and present, including Dr Tarek Oliveira Shayya, former Executive Vice-Chairman of Expo 2020 Dubai.
Dimitri Kerkentzes, Secretary-General of the Bureau International des Expositions, also emphasised that Theme Weeks are now a “guiding principle” of world expos. The event wrapped with a declaration under the slogan “unity in diversity,” reaffirming the expo’s role as a global forum for dialogue, collaboration and change.
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