Expo 2025 “Designing Future Society for our Lives”
The theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” makes individuals think how they want to live and how they can maximise their potential. It is also intended to drive co-creation by the international community in designing a sustainable society that supports individuals’ ideas of how they want to live.
The theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” makes individuals think how they want to live and how they can maximise their potential. It is also intended to drive co-creation by the international community in designing a sustainable society that supports individuals’ ideas of how they want to live.
In other words, the Expo will ask a straightforward question to everyone, “What is the happy way of life?” for the first time. The Expo will correspond to this time when new social challenges, including expanding economic gaps and heightened conflicts, are emerging while science technologies are evolving, including AI and biotechnologies, that will present changes to humankinds, for example, extended life spans.
While values and ways of living have become increasingly diversified in recent years, technological innovations enable everyone to access and communicate a hitherto unimaginable amount of information. Fully considering such progress, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, will feature health, medical, and other advanced initiatives, including carbon neutrality and digitisation, and collect wisdom and the best practices from around the world to provide solutions to various issues with diverse values considered.
Subthemes
To elaborate further on the discussion of ‘life’ as the central piece of the Expo’s theme, three subthemes have been established: Saving Lives, Empowering Lives, and Connecting Lives.
Lives referred to herein as part of subthemes cover not only one’s daily life or one’s life span, but also the life as what makes everybody and everything alive.
Japanese culture has long been based on the belief that any material, from all living creatures to even a pebble along the road, have an inherent life in them. With this in mind, the Expo welcomes the consideration of ‘life’ not just for human beings but also in a broader sense of diverse creations and nature that surround humans.
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Saving LivesThe subtheme of ‘Saving Lives’ focuses on protecting lives. This subtheme may be associated with more specific keywords, such as countermeasures against infectious diseases through improvement in public health, ensuring safety through disaster readiness and disaster risk reduction initiatives, and harmonious coexistence with nature.
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Empowering LivesEmpowering Lives focuses on enriching the lives of individuals and expanding their potential. Exhibitions on this may include, for example, high quality remote education through the use of ICT; the extension of a healthy life span through appropriate exercise and diet; and the maximisation of human potential through the use of AI and robotics.
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Connecting LivesThe subtheme of ‘Connecting Lives’ focuses on getting everyone engaged, building communities and enriching society. This subtheme may be associated with more specific keywords, for example, the power of partnership and co-creation, advanced communications enabled by ICT, and the design of a data-driven society.
The concept of Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai is “People’s Living Lab.” This concept represents the Expo’s approach toward putting its theme into practice and serves as a guideline for the practical implementation of projects. The most distinctive characteristic of the Expo will be the endeavour to give a realistic picture of a future society not just through thought, but also through action.
