The Mongolian Exposition “The Gobi & the City” during the Shanghai EXPO 2010

“Better City, Better Life” can be interpreted and explained from different angles and in different ways. The explanation can vary depending on from which angle you read it. The world is being urbanized rapidly. By 2020, about 70% of the world population will have moved to live in the cities. Nobody will be able to forbid this movement, which may have both positive and negative consequences. Our globe is becoming heavier with its fast growing population. How do we cope with such a growth? How do we ensure the right and balanced combination between preserving the nature and growing urbanization? The notion: the world will exist only when there is a combination of the colds on the northern and southern poles and the heat of the Gobi desert. The riches and the water resources under the Gobi desert are attracting the attention of the people nowadays. Under the Mongolian Gobi deserts, the rich deposits have been discovered, investment to exploit these resources is being poured and new cities will be built in these areas. At this point, we have to think carefully to build a more “intelligent” city rather than a “beautiful” one.

“The Gobi & the City” Exposition

The design of “The Gobi & the City” Exposition aims at exposing the modern city from a totally different angle. In the centre of the exposition, an enormous egg will be placed, inside of which there will be the skeleton of two dinosaurs, which seized each other by the throat and froze to death 60 million years ago. The exposition will be displayed under a high protection. This is the main philosophy of our exposition. Our world is becoming fragile “like an egg” as a consequences of the greedy actions of the human beings who strive for richer life. The right driving of the development will bring happiness. The wrong driving will bring a disaster. The right planning of the development of our untamed Gobi desert would preserve the right ecological balance. The exposition aims to show that the city has its own principles like an egg.

Animation and Movie

A movie will be shown on the walls of the Pavilion. It will consist of 2 parts. The first part will show a 10 minute 3D animation about the origins of the world, the living beings, the humans and the birth of a city in the Gobi. The second, 30 minute part will show the life in the Mongolian Gobi: its inhabitants, flora, fauna and animals and their co-existence in four seasons.

Pavilion of Mongolia

Shanghai City, China