History
A Universal Exhibition, is an extraordinary event organized by the government of one country in which take part the countries and the international organizations.
It is characterized by one six months duration, a great scale and many participants. The city or capital reserve must seek the impulse of an urban development project.
The International office of the Exhibitions (BIE), whose seat is in Paris is an international intergovernmental organization charged with the framing, management and coordination of the Universal expo. Currently 108 countires are members of the BIE.
According to the BIE, the Exhibitions are single places of meeting where education is transmitted by the experimentation, the co-operation by the participation and the development by the innovation. They are the EXPRESSION of a message of universal interest; an educational and entertaining EXPERIMENT; laboratories of EXPERIMENTATION showing the extraordinary one and the new one.
A Universal Exhibition exerts a considerable inflence, because it has six aims:
TO SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
An Exhibition is a testimony of confidence between nations and an important instrument of public diplomacy and cultural.Together, the States begin, over several years, to create and make live great Exhibitions for the citizens of the world.
TO SHARE CULTURE AND EDUCATION
Each Exhibition engages a dialogue between citizens and States around an topic, at the same time current and visionary topic. Each pavilion belongs to a multicultural universe showing to the visiors different prospects and innovating on a topic from universal scale.
TO ENCOURAGE THE GROWTH
The Exhibitions are large releases of economic growth for the host city and the area and they facilitate the international exchanges. New industries are created and the host city becomes a destination of choice to be lived and to be visited.
TO WORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Each Exhibition brings and uses the most advanced technologies to manage the site in the most strict respect of the environment. Production and the use of energy and water, as well as the systems of recycling are conceived to have a less impact on the environment and to ensure sustainable development.
TO RENEW THE CITY
The Exhibitions are great projects of urban renewal. Architecture opens out, new spaces of life are integrated in the city, transport improve, for the benefit of town quality of life for the near and forth coming.
TO TEST WITH THE FUTURE
The Exhibitions are laboratories of innovation for all the participants: preview of the technological innovations and scientists makes imagine the possible futures and progress to come.
Many innovations were born during Universal Exhibitions since their first demonstration to London in 1851. The Eiffel Tower, construction emblematic of the Universal Exhibition of 1889 constitutes an example of it. The incandescent lamp, the telephone, the sewing machine, the steam engine or the elevator are the creations presented during Universal Exhibitons. In the same "the beautiful blue Danube" of Johann Strauss, is famous since its iterpretation in 1873 in Vienna.
