FUTURE FORWARD: A POETIC EXPRESSION

The UK Pavilion also known as the

Poem Pavilion is envisioned by the leading artist and designer Es Devlin for Expo 2020 Dubai. Shaped like a giant wooden conical musical instrument, the Poem Pavilion gathers words donated by each visitor and uses an advanced machine learning algorithm to generate the cumulative collective poem which illuminates its twenty metre diameter façade. Devlin conceived the building to express Britain as a cultural gathering place, a meeting and melding of ideas and languages from across the globe. Each visitor will be invited to donate a word at the ‘mouthpiece’ of the pavilion, then enter within the heart of the instrument where they will be surrounded by donated words glimmering in illuminated Arabic and English. As visitors emerge through the façade of the pavilion they will pass through the twenty metre diameter composition of collective text: a new poem generated every minute.