Expo 2020 Dubai, which was postponed earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will run from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. For the UK, it comes at “a very important time”.
“We are reimagining our relationships with every nation on Earth; and we are being bold and forward looking. We are trying to build long lasting partnerships,” Laura Faulkner OBE, UK commissioner-general and project director at Expo 2020 Dubai, tells Construction Week in a virtual interview.
The UK’s participation, led by the Department for International Trade, at Expo is based on the theme, “Innovating for a Shared Future”.
The pavilion itself is inspired from one of the final projects by the late British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking, called ‘Breakthrough Message’.
Hawking’s project invited people across the world to consider a message they would wish to communicate if one day other advanced civilisations were encountered in space.
Based on Hawking’s project, the UK Pavilion will allow people from across the world to contribute to a collective message and showcase British expertise in sectors including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and space.
Faulkner says: “We have a broad theme, but underneath that, we have spotlighted technologies, AI, man, and machine learning, as well as space exploration within the pavilion’s design.”
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