After participating in the last three World Expos (Shanghai 2010, Milan 2015 and Dubai 2020), lille3000 is continuing the adventure with a new edition of Futurotextiles, as part of the next Expo in Osaka, Japan, in 2025. Like Shanghai and Milan, the project will involve a presence on a visited site in the heart of the city, connected to the official World Expo site.
The exhibition will showcase the latest creations, prototypes and savoir-faire, coming notably from the Lille European Metropolis, the Hauts-de-France Region and Europe, and combine them with Japanese textile traditions and innovations.
Japan, a bastion of technology, offers fertile ground for innovation, and often links up with France through economic and strategic exchanges. The aim of this exhibition is to reinforce the dynamics in the textile sector that will be developed by the French Pavilion throughout the World Expo. The exhibition will explore the links between man and his environment through textiles. It will focus on creations that pay homage to nature. Natural and bio-sourced fibers will be featured in all their forms.
Contemporary designers, whether in fashion, art or design, are taking inspiration from new textile materials and incorporating new, more responsible fibers. Through several themes, the exhibition will highlight current discoveries and innovations in the world of textiles (natural fibers, biosourcing, recycling, upcycling), while showing the vital link that this research and new uses maintain with the traditions and savoir-faire of the past.
The exhibition will take place on two 600 m² levels in a building housing the Flower Greenery Nature Information Center, in Nagai Park in Osaka, close to the official World Expo site. Nagai Park welcomed 838,888 visitors in 2023, and is a popular venue for cultural (Team Lab), botanical and sporting activities.
More than an exhibition, it’s a real awareness of the importance of research developed in the textile world around innovative and surprising applications and creations. It may seem like a journey into the future, but these textiles are already part of our daily lives.
The exhibition will focus on a number of themes to surprise and arouse the curiosity of visitors, introducing them to the inventive world of tomorrow’s textiles.
TEXTILES & NATURE
Natural fibers, rediscovered and sometimes used in cutting-edge technologies, will be in the spotlight, with aparticular focus on linen.
TEXTILES & BIOSOURCING
The inventiveness of engineers will be showcased withfibers made from coffee, castor oil, milk casein, basalt…
TEXTILES & UPCYCLING
Fashion has recently taken to reclaiming used objectsand clothing to create new collections. The results areastonishing and spectacular.
TEXTILES, SAVOIR-FAIRE & TRADITIONS
Gestures and savoir-faire have been handed down fromgeneration to generation throughout the world. Lace, lotus silk and embroidery combine with innovation.
More than 60 french and international creators and companies will be there.
The Society of the Future, Imagining Our Future Life
The theme of the World Expo invites people to think about the life they want to lead, and how they can maximize their potential. The Expo will take place at a time when new social challenges are emerging, including widening economic gaps and increased conflict, while at the same time scientific technologies such as AI and biotechnology are evolving, and driving change for humanity.
The French Pavillon
The Futurotextiles exhibition will be connected to the French Pavilion, whose theme isan Anthem to Love (love of self, love of others and love of nature), and which will be an unforgettable showcase forFrench excellence and savoir-faire. The exhibition will echo this theme.
The French Institute of Japan
The exhibition will also be connected to the Institut Français du Japon, a network of 5 branches in 6 cities: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kansai (Kyoto/Osaka), Kyushu (Fukuoka) and since 2019 Okinawa. (Naha), as well as to the Villa Kujoyama artists’ residence in Kyoto.
