The Swiss pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025 featured four interconnected spheres that invite visitors to discover the essence of Swiss innovation in a magical atmosphere.
At the exhibit’s centre, visitors are immersed in an interactive 8.3m diameter dome illuminated by 8 Norxe P60 projectors. These 4K native projectors produce a stunning 6,100 lumens and a contrast ratio of up to 12,000:1 sequential. This image fidelity is the cornerstone of the exhibit, resulting in pin-sharp, beautifully saturated visuals. Professor Sarah Kenderdine from EPFL—Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne led the project, which is already proving to be an incredibly popular exhibit.
The Public Portal to Anticipation (P2A) is an ambitious collaboration between the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) and the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) to transform how global audiences engage with complex scientific knowledge.
The Geneva Public Portal to Anticipation is based on the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar® database compiled by 2100 leading scientists. Its initiative is to engage the global public with emerging science.
By inviting interaction with this world-leading scientific knowledgebase, global citizens ‘re-engineer’ a canvas of speculative futures through their own perspectives. Participants use a series of parameters, including human/non-human; emotion and sphere of influence—to help craft their vision. Ultimately, this experience empowers individuals and groups from diverse cultural backgrounds to anticipate their world to come.
The knowledge creation architecture ingests 65,000 words including 5 scientific platforms; 29 topics; 116 subfields. This material is prompt engineering process which combines the Radar with a series of parameters that participants enter through a touch screen. Across 197 countries, it generates both a narrative story and an image located in the future @ 5- 10- or 25-year time horizons.
The project involves 3 million precomputed images and speculative future stories, powered by the language and image generators, ChatGPT 1o and Ideogram. In real-time the different narratives generate visions of anticipation for our world to come.
Commenting on the installation, André Jensen, Marketing Manager at Norxe said, “This is a unique exhibit, and the perfect example of how our projectors are deployed for the world’s most impressive visitor attractions. Where image quality and reliability are non-negotiable, such as here, where the spotlight is on a country pavilion, Norxe’s history of manufacturing simulation-grade projectors made the P60 the perfect choice”
The Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL is a transdisciplinary initiative at the intersection of immersive visualization technologies, visual analytics, aesthetics and cultural and scientific (big) data. eM+ engages in research from scientific, artistic and humanistic perspectives and promotes post-cinematic multisensory engagement using experimental platforms. eM+ has ten unique visualization systems combined with powerful sonic architectures that are benchmarks in the realms of virtual, augmented, mixed realities.