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District 2020 - Audio Guide

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After the last visitor leaves at the end of March 2022, what happens to Expo 2020’s architectural, artistic and technological marvels? They will be reborn as District 2020. Opening in late 2022, District 2020 will be a smart, human-centric, mixed-use community that will extend Expo 2020’s vision of global innovation and collaboration for generations to come, forming a lasting legacy.

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Generally, a World Expo lasts six months. But planning for it can take around a decade. And the impact it makes on a city can last for centuries.

Legacy I: After the Expo Leaves Town

Get a glimpse of a future Dubai where the Expo site is transformed into District 2020, an all inclusive, smart city.

Legacy II: District 2020

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Future of Work 

"Triumph of Innovation" is powered by UBI Global and supported by District 2020. The initiative recognizes growth and success stories from all over the world. In this event, a panel will discuss how corporations collaborate with startups for growth, and will present key findings from the Triumph of Innovation Impact Study Report. The session will conclude with an award ceremony in "Recognition of Success Stories". 

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UBI Global: Triumph of Innovation

The Triumph of Innovation event showcases how business incubators, business accelerators, and corporate innovation teams triumph over pandemic, creating best practices for successful startups.

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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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.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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

LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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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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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.

Terra Art Installations

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

Octavia's Playground

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UBI Global: Triumph of Innovation - Impact Study Report and Recognitions

This event will bring together experts, citizens and policymakers to reimagine how we build, live and consume sustainably, how we lessen our impact on the environment, and how our health and wellbeing are enhanced by connecting with nature. The session will also look at the Expo 2020 site and the plans for District 2020 as a model of inclusive, connected and sustainable urban development that offers an insight into future trends in urban and rural development.

At Home with Nature: Inclusive, Connected and Sustainable Cities and Communities

People and Planet

A panel of experts will discuss sustainability as well as our impact on the environment and connection with nature.

Access to safe and affordable living conditions is a fundamental right. More than 70 per cent of the world’s population is forecasted to live in cities by 2050 and over one billion are already living in informal communities. As the demand for both cities and communities escalate, Expo will bring together experts, citizens, and governments to re-think the way in which habitats are designed and managed. From innovative transport, sustainable housing and green public spaces to renewable energy and circular economies, living spaces of the future will be imagined as resilient, sustainable and inclusive.  

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 How do we live and grow in harmony with our planet?

Insight Report from Urban & Rural Development Week

Creating a blueprint for future smart cities

Siemens is a global technology powerhouse that unites the digital and 
physical worlds to benefit society through its focus on smart infrastructure, digital industries, and intelligent mobility solutions. As Expo 2020 Dubai’s Premier Partner for Infrastructure Digitalisation, Siemens is reshaping the future of urban living by creating a blueprint for the smart cities of the future. By integrating its technology, the company is helping to create history’s most digitalised, sustainable and secure Expo. Siemens is also an anchor tenant at District 2020, the future city that will live on as a legacy of Expo 2020 Dubai.

Creating a blueprint for smarter cities

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There are more than 1,400 thermal springs in Hungary, in which Hungarians have soaked for health and relaxation for centuries. The Hungary Pavilion celebrates this rich tradition of thermal bathing with a deep dive into the country’s naturally steaming waters. Follow the glowing blue path to tour the hot springs’ geothermal origins, from the mystical cave bath at Miskolctapolca to the grand spas of Budapest. At the end of your journey, relax and reflect in the pavilion’s meditative inner dome, or take a sip of Hungary’s mineral and thermal waters at the Aqua Bar.

Experience an interactive journey on the theme of water without the use of water.

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Immersive tour of Hungary’s thermal waters and bathing culture

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The Hungary pavilion is a wide, gently curved concrete cylinder featuring long, vertical planks of exposed wood. Approached from the front, two thick square columns of intricately woven wood frame the entryway and rise above the main building’s domed roof. The entrance plaza features a miniature forest of smart trees, built of the same wood and featuring digital screens and umbrella-like white roofs. In step with the organic design philosophy, these trees blend in seamlessly with the pavilion’s minimalist gardens.

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As the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia opens itself to the world, its contribution to Expo 2020 mirrors the nation’s grand ambitions. Boasting a vast façade that covers the area of two football pitches, the Saudi Arabia Pavilion takes the form of an opening window that soars into the sky bearing messages of inspiration.

Your Saudi experience begins in the open plaza under the pavilion, where the giant screen above and LEDs below combine to create a dazzling light show. Next, the “Heritage Path” escalator will transport you to immersive exhibits – and you can end your journey with refreshments and shopping in the pavilion’s scenic palm garden.


Spectacular mirrored architectural design, dazzlingly lit on all sides

Immersive exhibition space highlighted by a multicoloured floating sphere

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The monumental Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Pavilion is a mirrored slab that extends up diagonally from the ground, resembling a giant window opening toward the sky. The immense structure soars six storeys into the air and covers more than 13,000 square metres, or the area of two football pitches. The sides of the pavilion feature a decorative motif of grey horizontal lines like layered metal, while its vast underbelly — which shades an enormous plaza — is mirrored and smooth. 


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Singapore’s decades-long journey from urban jungle to tree-filled green space has earned it the nickname “City in a Garden”. For Expo 2020, the island country has brought a slice of Singaporean greenery to the Dubai desert, creating a lush, fully explorable rainforest experience.

The open-air Singapore Pavilion unfolds across 1,500 square metres of soft tropical plant life, centred upon three striking, themed garden cones and capped by a solar canopy and hanging garden. Sample the authentic flavours of Singapore at the Sky Market, take in the leafy vistas from the canopy walk, or just take a deep breath and enjoy the garden’s calming quiet.


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An abundance of plant life amid the Dubai desert, the Singapore Pavilion is a sustainable rainforest paradise, inspired by the island nation’s nickname: “City in a Garden”. The open-air structure is both surrounded by and covered with tropical greenery. Beginning at ground level, a lush garden filled with trees and shrubs encircles the three massive cone structures that form the pavilion’s core. 


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Sustainability @ Expo | At Home with Nature: Creating Healthy Environments for Living

Expo aims to deliver one of the most sustainable World Expos in history, supporting the UAE in its journey towards a green economy. Sustainability is integrated across both our operations and programming, embracing every opportunity to create meaningful impact, and inspiring the global community to play an active role in becoming part of a sustainable future.

The Live in Balance track of Expo 2020 Dubai's Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that spotlight our relationship with the natural world, and position Expo as a critical catalyst for restoring balance with our planet.

Restoring Balance with our Planet

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From farm to plate, the food value chain is an integral part of society, providing income and livelihoods for billions. But the way in which we currently cultivate our food is a signiﬁcant contributor to climate change through deforestation, land degradation, pollution, and food waste. Expo is a platform that brings stakeholders across value chains to spotlight localised solutions to food security, nutrition, and farming challenges. 
This event will explore how to grow food sustainably and will encompass approaches to climate-friendly agricultural practices that maximise productivity while operating in harmony with the environment.
It will also highlight Expo’s efforts and successes in planning Urban Agriculture into the Expo site and District 2020, as well as how International Participants include food and urban agriculture into their pavilion design and operations.

Growing Sustainably for a Growing World

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Spotlight on Expo and participating countries’ sustainability initiatives, standards and models for sustainable food production practices through their pavilion content, design, programming and operations.

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The Nexus for People and Planet

Located in the heart of the Opportunity District, the Nexus for People and Planet serves as the home for Expo 2020 Dubai's Programme for People and Planet, hosting a number of engaging events and talks that highlight some of the greatest challenges and opportunities of our time.

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Dayna Baumeister, PhD, Director, The Biomimicry Center speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52165

Dina Storey (emcee), Director of Sustainability Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52164

Dr Celso Moretti, President, Embrapa, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and Board Member speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52174

Dr Dionysia Angeliki Lyra, Halophyte Agronomist, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52

Jemilah Mahmood, Malasian Physician and Humanitarian Activist speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52171

Phil Dunn, Sustainability Pavilion Senior Manager and Architect speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52168

Sanjive Khosla, Senior Vice-President Transition Unit at Expo 2020 Dubai speaks during the Sustainability at Expo Nature’s Harvest Growing Sustainably for a Growing World at Nexus for People and Planet m52166

From farm to plate, the food value chain is an integral part of society, providing income and livelihoods for billions. The ways in which we currently cultivate food by means of deforestation and food waste however, are all contributing adversely to climate change. Expo will serve as a platform to bring together all stakeholders in various value chains to spotlight localized solutions to food, nutrition and farming challenges. The programme will explore food sustainably, climate-friendly agriculture and other practices that work in harmony with the environment. 


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How do we sustainably grow food to meet future demand?