Expo 2025

Expo 2025 (officially Expo 2023 Osaka, Kansai, Japan is the upcoming Universal exhibition organized in Osaka, Japan, to be held from May 3, 2025 to November 23, 2025. The topic of the exposition is Designing Future Society for Our Lives and it is strictly related to with sub themes of Saving Lives, Empowering Lives and Connecting Lives under "People's Living Lab". This will be the second time Osaka hosts a World Expo, having previously hosted Expo 1970. The projected visitor count is approximately 28 million.

Theme
The chosen theme for Expo 2025 "Designing Future Society for Our Lives", The theme will be developed through three sub-themes:


 * Saving Lives - Tackling infection and extending healthy life span.


 * Empowering Lives - Designing education and employment in the era of AI and robotics.


 * Connecting Lives - Fostering understanding among different cultures, and bringing about innovations.

Site
The EXPO is planned to be held on a 155 hectare site on Yumeshima Island, an artificial island located on the waterfront of Osaka.

The venue design features a dispersed facility arrangement without center, using the Voronoi pattern*. It reflects the vision of future society created by harmony and co-creation which will arise from individual relations and diversity.

The main street will connect 2 entrances and 5 large plazas, which will be covered by large roofs in four pavilions.


 * Orientation and Guidances


 * Exhibition of Lifestyles in Future Society


 * Workships and Sharing Studios


 * Place for Action towards Future Society

Bidding and awarding
Buenos Aires has been awarded the organization of Expo 2025 on November 23th, 2018 during the 164th General Assembly of the International Bureau of the Expositions. It won against the following cities:


 * Yekaterinburg, Russia
 * Yekaterinburg, Russia submitted the Expo 2025 bid with a “Changing the World: Innovations and Better Life for Future Generations” theme on 22 May 2017


 * Baku, Azerbaijan
 * Baku, Azerbaijan submitted a bid with theme “Developing Human Capital, Building a Better Future”.

Also the French city of Paris was a candidate city, but its bid was withdrawn on 21 January 2018, because of financial concerns and Protests against Emmanuel Macron. The selected theme was "Sharing our Knowledge, Caring for our Planet".