The Pakistan pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai featured a colorful exterior and an engaging visitor experience inside.
Voices of Expo 2020 Dubai
Learning about the importance of Expo through the people who work there by Martin Palicki; photos by Paul Williams; interviews by Tina Kreitlow
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xpo 2020 Dubai boasts 192 participating countries, each with their own pavilion. Over half of the pavilions are housed in small, boxy buildings in the central portion of Expo’s three themed areas: sustainability, mobility and opportunity. Even though these countries have smaller spaces to work with many have fascinating exhibits. The Syria Pavilion, for example, introduces visitors to the world’s first alphabet and the first known written song, while featuring Syrian art that touches on some of the country’s challenges.
Iraq The Iraq Pavilion is conceptually simple yet effective. A wavelike canopy is perched above a series of LED walls of differing widths and heights connected together to create a sort of crooked hallway. The LED walls represent the paths of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the height of each screen represents the water level at that point of the river. Around the pavilion a
Roughly 70 country pavilions are housed in custom-designed, architecturally unique buildings. These are the pavilions many expo visitors talk about and seek out. For more on the Expo experience and some pavilion highlights, be sure to read Carissa Baker’s piece “A coalescence of great design minds: Expo 2020 Dubai” at inparkmagazine.com. During InPark’s visit to Expo 2020 we also wanted to get the perspective of people who work in the pavilions, find out what Expo means to them, and perhaps even learn why having an Expo is important. Tina Kreitlow and Martin Palicki interview Sarah Al-Qaisi at the Iraq Pavilion.
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