Guyana exhibition earns bronze at Expo Japan 2025

The Guyana exhibition team at the Expo Japan 2025 will bring home a bronze award for exhibition design under the sub-theme “Connecting Lives” in the Shared Pavilion category of the event. President Ali, in a Facebook post, extended his congratulations to the team for winning the award. The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Day Ceremony of Prizes and Awards at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan was held Sunday, during which recipients of the Expo 2025 Official Participant Awards were announced.

Guyana was one of 90 countries that participated in the Shared Pavilion category. A total of 165 countries, regions and international organisations participated in Expo Japan 2025. According to BIE, the recipients of the Official Participant Awards were decided by an international jury composed of nine experts in a range of relevant fields. The jury visited each international pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai during the course of two sessions, in May and October 2025.
Attributed in line with the diversity of pavilions according to their size and type, the Official Participant Awards recognise various aspects of pavilions: architecture and landscape (for self-built pavilions only), external design (for module pavilions only), exhibition design and theme development, and sustainability.
A total of 45 Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards and four Sustainability Awards were handed out during the ceremony, which took place in the Expo Hall – Shining Hat.
The Expo took place on a 155-hectare site dominated by the Grand Ring, the largest wooden structure in the world with a circumference of two kilometres within which international pavilions are located. Pavilions were situated in one of three districts reflecting the Expo’s subthemes: Saving Lives, Empowering Lives and Connecting Lives.
Shared Pavilions (Type C), were a type of exhibition space where multiple participants can set up their displays within a common area. The “Connecting Lives” sub-theme is said to be a core part of the expo’s focus on fostering connections between people, ideas, and cultures to build a better future. The pavilions located in the “Connecting Lives Zone” are specifically designed to align with this concept.
The exhibition, under the main theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, ran from April 13 and closes today, October 13, 2025. The Gold award in the category went to Benin and Silver to Armenia.