Beyond Sound and Vision
The Expo 2020 team had to adapt to our new, largely online world. But Virtual Expo isn’t the first time a World Expo revolutionised how it was experienced by audiences. The first visual broadcast of a...
14 Dec 202117min
Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator
When Expo 2020 Dubai embarked on its mission to become the most sustainable World Expo yet, it looked to the world’s oldest innovator for inspiration: nature. In part one of this series, we look at ho...
10 Dec 202119min
Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun
In 1878, Augustine Mouchot, a Mathematics teacher, exhibited solar technology at the World’s Fair in Paris. Almost 150 years later, Terra, the Sustainability Pavillion at the World Expo, is harnessing...
10 Dec 202113min
Who Organises Expos?
Many people make the mistake of thinking that Expos are one-off events that nations host at random every five years or so. There’s a logic, however, to World Expos - and the source of that logic is th...
7 Dec 202117min
The Future is Well
With greater global awareness about mental wellness, innovators are finding ways to make help more accessible. In spaces where traditional therapy can be taboo or early intervention for youth is lacki...
3 Dec 202118min
Disruptions to Expo
Just as the finish line was in sight for Expo 2020’s launch, reports of the Covid-19 virus began to dominate the news. The World Expo was postponed until 2021, but the question still remained: how doe...
30 Nov 202117min
The Next Great Frontier
In the 1960s, people (and World Expos) were obsessed with going to space, to infinity and beyond, to where no human had gone before. Shortly after the moon landing in 1969, however, the focus shifted ...
26 Nov 202120min
The Brave Women
“When women thrive, humanity thrives.” This is the driving principle behind Expo 2020 Dubai’s Women’s Pavilion - the first of its kind at a World Expo in the 21st century. In this episode, we follow t...
23 Nov 202121min
