The United Nations World Expo
EXHIBITION DESIGN

Spatial Storytelling
Conceptual Development
Pitching & Presentation
Event Collateral

In collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of peers, I developed and presented an exhibition concept to the United Nations creative team for the United Nations' pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai.

Our project team includes folks across disciplines, including Communications Designers, Interior Designers, and Industrial Designers. As a team we researched, conceptualized, designed, and built the exhibition titled "Twenty Percent". The ethos of the exhibition is to emphasize the role of the United Nations as an invisible thread throughout its existence, connecting our past, present, and future.

The exhibition asks the visitor to view 2020 as a checkpoint, placing us 20% through the 21st century. Throughout the exhibition experience, visitors are confronted with reflecting on our global failures and successes as human beings from 2000 to now. Visitors are left with the lasting question, what can we as individuals, local communities, and global societies contribute to the remaining 80% of this century?

CREDITS

Graphic Designers: Emily Braunstein, 
Cecilia Tian, Fiona Gaffney
Copywriter: Liran Federmann 
Environmental & Interior Designers: Erin Kennedy, Marcy Wolfsberg, Yudi Chen
Industrial & Interaction Designer: 
Joe Sherwood
Museum Studies Researchers: Derrick Pratt
Wentao Yua

The exhibition is divided into ten main checkpoint installations, each one relating to a major topic impacting individuals, nations, and societies globally and locally: technology, travel, space, peacekeeping, global economy, natural resources, environment, food, refugees, and children.

Ultimately, the selection of the ten checkpoints were derivative of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The global successes and failures pertaining to the specific topic are analyzed at each checkpoint. The exhibition culminates in the reflection room; once again asking visitors to consider what they can contribute to the next 80% of this century.