Pulsations
Location
OsakaClient
Pavillon France - Expo 2025Surface area
1560m²Completion date
2025
Our studio created the permanent exhibition for the France Pavilion at Expo 2025 in association with visual artist Justine Emard.
Pulsations is an immersion in the spirit of France, under the unifying theme of the pulse as the common denominator between humanity, technology and nature.
Justine Emard drew inspiration from the Japanese legend of Akai Ito, the red thread of fate, to develop the concept for the experience around the theme proposed by France: “A hymn to love.” Legend has it that an invisible thread tied to our little finger connects us to another being and sets our fate. The legend enabled our team to develop experience principles along several distinct lines: the red thread, the hand and the beating heart.
Our team reimagined the definition of the hymn, a unifying song, by creating a new hymn to love in the form of a contemporary electronic remix. The design of the exhibition is embodied in the idea of the pulse – not only the biological rhythm of the heart, but a musical rhythm that synchronizes all of the experience’s different spaces.

Pavilion’s architects: Coldefy and Carlo Ratti Associati








In short
The World Expo is taking place from April 13 to October 13, 2025, in Osaka. In just one month since opening, the France Pavilion has welcomed over one million visitors!