On January 27, 2022, Argentina submitted a candidature to the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) to organise a Specialised Expo in San Carlos de Bariloche between February1 and April 30, 2027, based on the theme “Nature + Technology = sustainable energy. A viable future for humanity”.
Expo 2027 Bariloche will be the ideal time and place to rethink our history, and create a new opportunity: a world that will place men and women at its heart; human energy will take its place in nature, while creating and implementing technologies that will enable true advances in people’s quality of life and wellbeing.
It will be an expo that is inclusive, but that also goes beyond dreaming of the real and feasible improvements we are capable of like less air and water pollution, better quality of life for the population, friendlier technologies for the people and the environment; an expo that also places humankind at its centre, those responsible for thinking, creating and acting; and an expo that can balance the outward look with the necessary introspection, a “spirituality” independent of rites and religions: the possibility of understanding one another as inhabitants and neighbours of the world.
Expo 2027 Bariloche provides us with a new way of looking at ourselves, our relation with the environment, and with those around us. And also, with a new beginning.
From “the end of the world” this new beginning is not conceived from just any place, it is conceived from Latin America, which will host this event for the first time; especially Patagonia, Bariloche, the south of the south, which demands that we position ourselves in a specific place, and thus put forward a new expo concept.
Our legacy begins today, with the political decision to promote this candidacy and build the expo not only to hold the exhibition itself, but also to establish here The City of Knowledge and Development — a city that is already underway and growing, with the participation of all stakeholders of the region’s education, technological systems and of the scientific community, in order to generate an area of human development for the training of new generations of students and researchers.