Osaka, Japan:
Expo 2025 closed the Japanese city of Osaka on Sunday, but at the age of online information and collective tourism, what is the purpose of the world fair?
Massive events, which attract millions of visitors to a chosen city every five years, returned to the London’s 1851 great exhibition held inside the Crystal Palace.
As the six -month -old Osaka Expo shows his technical and cultural achievements in 160 countries and regions, AFP sees what it all is:
What is World Expo?
Expanding national demonstrations in Paris in the morning of the Industrial Revolution, Imperial Britain built a huge glass crystal palace to host 14,000 exhibitions from 40 countries.
It marked the beginning of the expo phenomenon that for decades introduced the world to ketchup, telephone and X-ray machines among other technologies.
The Eiffel Tower-Epil Tower in the 1889 Paris version was intended as a temporary attraction-and Pablo Picasso’s anti-war painting “Garnika” was first shown in 1937 in 1937.
Historically, the world’s fairs not only demonstrated new techniques, but also included racist performances of the real people of the colonies of the time.
Do we still need exposure?
While world exposes still demonstrate future technologies, some argue that the arrival of internet, mass media and cheap foreign travel has made them meaningless.
The global upheaval in the form of conflicts and trade wars has also inspired critics to question the idealistic values of unity and development on events.
But the organizers of the Expo 2025 in Osaka have stressed that the “unexpected encounter” between the nations and the resulting “unexpected encounters” are still important.
Middle school teacher Yusuk Nagaswa said that “a valuable learning experience, in fact, to be able to experience people’s realism and heat, which cannot be expressed through the screen”.
“I have seen enthusiasm, and people from different countries have approached me for chat,” Nagaswa said, which is planning to bring about 140 students to the expo next month.
This year is a meteorite from Mars in a dizzy number of displays, a “heart” grown from stem cells, and the world’s largest wooden architectural structure.
Where are they held?
Since 1928, Bureau, the International Exhibitions in Paris, has run exposes. There are more than 180 countries members and the host city is selected by one vote of its General Assembly.
This is Osaka’s second World Expo after the 1970 edition – a Moon Rock featured – which was attended by 64 million people, a record in 2010 to Shanghai.
The United States once kept the world’s fairs continuously, as they are known there, leaving sites such as space needles in Unisfare, Seattle and New York City.
But the world’s largest economy had last hosted one in 1984 in 1984, some experts said that their popularity has surpassed the Olympic Games and attractions like Disneyland.
What is in focusing an expo?
Buildings often take center stage in world exposes and there is no exception this year, prepared to influence each country.
The design of the Chinese pavilion provokes a calligraphy scroll, while the Portuguese created by Japanese architect Kango Kuma features ropes that “provokes the movement of the ocean”.
“Expos has always acted, and has continued to act as places of architectural experiment,” said Isaac Lopez Caesar from a Koruna University in Spain.
He offered a platform, where new architectural forms, new materials, new designs and structural typology, and, in general, are tested for new technological progress applied to architecture “, he explained the AFP.
What is environmental effects?
The themes of stability run through the expo, including a bauble -like Swiss pavilion, aimed at the smallest ecological footprint.
But world exposure has been criticized for their temporary nature, and after October, Osaka’s man -made island will be approved to make way for the Casino Resort.
According to Japanese media, only 12.5 percent of the “Grand Ring” of wood – a huge structure that surrounds most national pavilions – will be reused.
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