The guide to Expo 2015 for design lovers. Every city has its center, its suburbs, its central and satellite neighborhoods. If Expo 2015 is a city (and it is), we've now arrived downtown. Piazza Italia, the area of the Cardo that stretches from the Open Air Theatre as far as Palazzo Italia and the Tree of Life. Along the Decumanus lie the international pavilions. Along the Cardo, the top Italian attractions. As a soundtrack, Dean Martin (what else?) This neighborhood was overseen by the Expo 2015 Social Media Team. All the photos are by Beatrice Bianchetti and Anna Chiara Maggiolini.

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Fields of Tomorrow

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This is the heart of the Israel Pavilion, a functioning prototype that is unique in the world: a vertical cultivated field (12 meters high by 70 long) with over 100 thousand plants of wheat, corn and rice that keep on growing day after day. Rather incredible to find out that some of these crops have even been harvested. This technological (and also agricultural) virtuosity is instrumental in the debate on the scarcity of farmland, proposing a genuine alternative cultivation model that expands upwards. A project that is quite literally “extra-ordinary” (in the sense of “outside the norm”), developed by David Knafo and Avant Video Systems (AVS). This is a pavilion that is striking to look at, with the addition of a very special sensory effect involving touch and smell. The graphics set out to describe an organic texture, in fact, being real plants that grow day in day out, the sensory experience could not be bettered. Fascinating, there's no denying it!

Fields of Tomorrow
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Fields of Tomorrow
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Fields of Tomorrow
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Fields of Tomorrow
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Dinner For Two, Above It All

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