Expo 2020 Dubai: Study and graduate in under 30 minutes at the Germany Pavilion

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00:00If you see different pavilions, you will find out that a lot of countries have their specific language.

00:06For example, Great Britain is always doing a piece of art,

00:10Austria is doing mostly something quite forward-ish design-wise,

00:15and Germany is always trying to really contribute in content.

00:20I think that's very important for us Germans to really take it serious.

00:24I mean, hey, we are Germans, so...

00:28So there is a German tonality, but I think what is specific to us

00:35compared to other German pavilions in the past is that we really want to entertain people

00:41and that we really want to give them a good time.

00:44And while they have this good time, they learn something,

00:48they can take some things away about technology, about possible solutions,

00:52so that they finally understand, and that's a true belief of mine,

00:56that we can solve the global challenges if we work together.

01:01I think it's not so much, or hopefully it's not so much like a student,

01:05but, I mean, Google has a campus, Facebook has a campus,

01:09so it's a place where people come together to find solutions.

01:12And here you have people from all over the world coming together,

01:16and they are all driven by those global challenges that we are facing.

01:20So that's, I think, more the metaphor, that we have people from all over the world coming together,

01:24thinking about how to solve these problems.

01:27First comes the idea, the narrative from the creative guys.

01:31They should find a way that it comes over very easily to our guests.

01:36You know, there's a lot of high-tech in the German pavilion,

01:38but if we don't explain to you, you didn't know.

01:42And that's the secret behind it.

01:45If we need technology, it's just to bring our content across and the emotion across.

01:50So thinking about swings, when we start to think about why not using swings,

01:54to let people move by themselves, doing something by themselves.

01:59We have an idea that everybody has, thinking about swings from a playground.

02:03Well, that's nice, that's poetic.

02:05Then we start to find out how we can do it under the circumstances here in the land,

02:09and all the regulations which you have if you try to get 100 people on the swings at the same time.

02:15And then our engineers come across and say,

02:17Hey guys, now we start developing something very technical that is safe for the people,

02:22so that nothing can happen, because that's also very important, you know.

02:25And that's where it comes from.

02:27So coming from the story, from the narrative, going through the content,

02:31and then we find the right technical solution.

02:33Of course, you learn something about Germany.

02:37Hopefully, you understand that we are not that serious that you might believe,

02:42so that we also have some humor and a little bit of entertaining.

02:47But you also learn that we can contribute something to the solutions that we need to solve the global challenges.

02:56I think that's very important for our customer also.

02:59Yeah, but you also had a good time, and you should understand that it's a sympathetic and good country.

03:06I mean, you know, we have a difficult history.

03:09So for us, it's quite important that people like us.

03:13The people that were here helped us a lot.

03:15They supported us a lot.

03:16They were very professional.

03:18And if there comes some problems across, we always can go to them and ask them for help,

03:22and they've supported us as good as they can.

03:24And they find always a solution to manage the problems that you have,

03:28if you're working four years to build up such a huge building.

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