This illuminating and fascinating event looks at Vodun and its culture, which promotes a harmonious lifestyle of coexistence between humans and nature, that also contributes to environmental protection, through sacred forests.

Benin Tourism and Culture Keynote

Benin: Tourism and Culture Keynote

An illuminating event that looks at Vodun and its fascinating culture, which promotes a harmonious lifestyle of coexistence between humans and nature.

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Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion - Audio Guide

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Terra offers two different, immersive tracks that take visitors either Under the Forest or Under the Ocean in order to learn more about the beauty of the natural world. 

Under the Ocean Track - Terra

See the Expo Young Innovators exhibition, which brings to life the creativity of students across the UAE who worked on developing solutions to global challenges.

Expo Young Innovators Exhibition Terra 

Terra - Carousel

At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


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Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

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LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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3151 Consumption Hall exhibition - Terra The Sustainability Pavilion

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3170 Under the Sea exhibition as part of Terra The Sustainability Pavilion

Image Gallery

Videos

The Making of Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Drone Footage: Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Hyperlapse: Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Interactive Tour: Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

Directions

Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

Octavia

Octavia's Playground

Timelapse of Terra 

Join us in celebrating Benin's National Day at Expo 2020

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The Dahomey Amazons, an 18th century all-female fighting force that inspired the movie Black Panther, once protected kings in what is now modern-day Benin. The West African nation honours their legacy in its Expo 2020 pavilion and shares how the Amazons’ spirit lives on in the women of Benin today. Become part of the action as you explore Beninese history through female-made art and film. Cheer on the country’s “Nana Benz” female entrepreneurs who turned traditional crafts and skills into business empires, then find out how Benin’s sustainable tourism economy seeks to preserve the ultimate female spirit, Mother Nature. 


Benin Pavilion

Benin National Day

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MENASA, an Emirati Design Platform presented by Expo 2020 Dubai, aims to spark a new appreciation for Emirati crafts as contemporary and living expressions of Emirati cultural identity. By merging artisanal skills with innovation and technology, MENASA aims to cultivate a creative dialogue between designers and artisans from the UAE and around the world. Craft Stories is a series of seven unique curated design collaborations telling stories of today's UAE through a selection of its crafts and traditions. Merging the skills and rich heritage of Emirati artisans together with contemporary creativity and innovation in techniques and materials, each story is a multi-layered journey that reflects many facets of the UAE, its landscape, people, traditions, values and identity. Technology and Crafts: Interpretation of Crafts Through Technology will introduce one of the main craft story collections showcased at MENASA, the TEN to ONE capsule collection by Iwan Maktabi, Edouard Cabay and House of Artisans: a bespoke rug collection made from a sustainable material that is painted by Robot through AI.

Technology and Crafts: Interpretation of Crafts Through Technology

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A panel discussion organised by the Emirati design platform MENASA, in which distinguished designers from around the world contribute to engaging dialogue around the craft stories showcased at MENASA.

Carmelo Zappulla (C), Founder and Executive Director External Reference, Edouard Cabay (R), Architect and Founder and Principal of Appareil and Salama Al Shamsi (L), Director of Qasr Al Hosn during the Technology and Crafts Interpretation o

Mohamed Maktabi (L2), Co-founder and CEO of Iwan Maktabi, Carmelo Zappulla (R2), Founder and Executive Director External Reference, Edouard Cabay (R1), Architect and Founder and Principal of Appareil and Salama Al Shamsi (R3), Director of Qa (1)

Mohamed Maktabi (L2), Co-founder and CEO of Iwan Maktabi, Carmelo Zappulla (R2), Founder and Executive Director External Reference, Edouard Cabay (R1), Architect and Founder and Principal of Appareil and Salama Al Shamsi (R3), Director of Qa

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MENASA | Technology and Crafts: Interpretation of Crafts Through Technology

MENASA is an Emirati Design Platform curated by Samer Yamani, to celebrate Emirati artisanal work and to identify, curate, promote and present Emirati design and crafts through exclusive design collections and content.

In this event, an exciting line up of distinguished panelists in the field of design from around the world discuss unique perspectives of design storytelling, and how they have been able to break out of the expected and present the extraordinary.

The Power of Storytelling in Design

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MENASA’s third panel discussion, featuring distinguished panelists from around the world to discuss unique perspectives of design storytelling, and how they enable moving from the expected to the extraordinary.

MENASA – Emirati Design Platform - Audio Guide

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MENASA - Emirati Design Platform offers visitors an overview of the UAE’s vibrant artisan culture. Its bespoke collections are created with top local and international designers and explore seven Emirati “Craft Stories”: safeefa, clay, talli, sadu, coffee making, Gargour making and pearl diving. Each story leads you through the processes involved in crafting the design collections. The programme’s space hosts design collections to stimulate and inspire. Many of the one-of-a-kind pieces on display are also available to take home, with each purchase helping to sustain the local design ecosystem.

Aiming to identify, curate, promote and present Emirati design and crafts through exclusive design collections and curated content, MENASA provides a unique opportunity to explore traditional Emirati crafts through contemporary design, innovative materials and advanced processes. The platform features exciting design collaborations between over 40 local and international designers from 11 countries.

8000 Waves Design

Crafts and Design

Exploring Emirati

MENASA – Emirati Design Platform

MENASA: The Power of Storytelling in Design

Umdema is one of the folk arts that is originally from Africa, performed on occasions and weddings. The group circle the drummers, and one of the performers dance in the middle while they continue to tag each other to dance. Watch UmDema, live on the Jubilee stage at Expo 2020 Dubai. 

UmDema

Watch UmDema, a traditional folklore dance performed on occasions and weddings. The group circle the drummers, and one of the performers dance in the middle and tag other dancers in and out.

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With a striking design inspired by fossilised sand dunes, Jubilee Stage is an open-air festival stage. Located in Jubilee Park, it hosts performances and large concerts.

Benin: Tourism and Culture Keynote

Benin Tourism and Culture Keynote

Participants

Benin National Day.