Expo Osaka German Pavilion
Circularity is an idea until you can build it with your hands.
TSC created and designed the three central immersive installations at the heart of the pavilion, Wa! Germany, as partner and subcontractor to facts and fiction, the agency that built it for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Each room was made to put visitors to work. Guiding everyone through all three were the Circulars, mascots who speak German, Japanese and English. Even the pavilion's materials were circular: designed for reuse, built without a single non-reversible connection.
What we built
Three rooms, one question. Circular Living, where visitors design a future city with the Dream Machine, sustainability as something you build yourself. Circular Economy, a 360-degree immersive narrative you step inside and look around in. Circular Me, the smallest room, where the question turns to the person standing in it. The Expo ran from 13. April to 13. October 2025.
The challenge
Take a theme as abstract as circularity, a word most people have heard and nobody can picture, and make it something a visitor feels and takes part in, across three rooms and in three languages.
“A German visitor, a Japanese visitor and a child from anywhere left having built the same thing without sharing a word.”
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Awards
Credits
COMMISSION & PRODUCTION
Client
facts and fiction GmbH
Organized by
Koelnmesse GmbH, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Concept, Planning and Realization
German Pavilion Consortium consisting of facts and fiction GmbH and GL events
THE STORYTELLING COMPANY
Concept & Design, Content Production
Content, exhibition, and media design: facts and fiction GmbH, among others with collaborative partner flora&faunavisions, now the The Storytelling Company
PARTNERS
Architecture and Spatial Design
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)
Construction
GL events
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