Wednesday, 16 April 2025 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien Category/Kategorie: General, Museums, ExhibitionsReading Time: 3minutes
Expo 2025 is a World Expo organised and sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which will be held in Osaka, Japan. It will take place for six months during 2025, opening 13 April 2025 and closing 13 October 2025, for a total of 184 days. This will be the second time Osaka hosts a World Expo, having previously hosted Expo 1970. The event will return to its traditional 5-year scheduling cycle after the 2020 edition was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The projected visitor count is approximately 28 million.
The theme for the expo is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, with sub-themes of “Saving Lives”, “Empowering Lives” and “Connecting Lives”. The theme “Saving Lives” includes infant vaccinations, sanitation, lifestyle (diet and exercise) and extending lifespans. The concept is “People’s Living Lab”.
The Expo 2025 will be held with the aim of achieving a society in which the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 sustainable development goals set out at the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development held at the UN Headquarters, New York City in September 2015, have been achieved. With five years remaining until 2030, the target year for achieving the SDGs, 2025 is an extremely important year for accelerating efforts to achieve them. Furthermore, it aims to head towards realizing Japan’s national strategy: Society 5.0 (“super smart society”), which is a society, after the information society, industrial society, agrarian society, and hunter-gatherer society before it, that brings prosperity to people by making the most of ICT and integrating cyberspace and physical space.
The main site of Expo 2025 was a 155 hectare area (383 acres) located in Yumeshima Island, Konohana-ku, Osaka. The Grand Ring designed the Japanese firms Tohata Architects and Azusa Sekkei, was built and enclosed by three large thematic districts dedicated to the themes of Expo 2025 – Connecting, Empowering, and Saving Lives. The infrastructure of the site was built by Obayashi, Shimizu, and Takenaka Corporation, it was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest wooden building (certified area: 61,035.55 m2).
