• • “Our culture, our knowledge and our lifestyle encapsulated.” That was the formidable task assigned to two cauldron-like vessels in 1968 during the first meeting of the Expo ’70 Time Capsule Committee sponsored by Panasonic Corporation and Mainichi Newspapers.
    
    Two sets of 2,098 items were selected for burial, including various samples of synthetic materials, foodstuffs and toys, documentation of the atomic bomb, Japanese coins and flag, the contents of a ladies’ handbag and a pair of slippers. The entire collection was then sterilised using ethylene oxide gas, or in some cases, such as that of the katsuobushi (dried, fermented tuna), via exposure to cobalt-60 radiation, before being buried in the two spherical, stainless-steel containers at the Osaka Castle Park site.
    
     A Tutankhamun’s tomb of the twentieth century (without the body obviously), one of the capsules is to remain buried for 5,000 years for posterity and the benefit of our descendants. The other, containing its matching set of contents, was re-opened for the first time in 2000 and will be opened again every 100 years hence – because five millennia are an awfully long time to wait for seventies fashions to come round again. 
    
    But in 6970 AD, when the time is ripe, those unearthing the relics will be greeted with what the committee dubbed the “1970 Rosetta Stone” written in Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish and signed by those “who believe in the prosperity of Mankind” in the hope that future beings will appreciate “the particular spirit of the year 1970 AD”. I (fs)
    
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  Memories Worth Keeping

   

  Time Capsule, Osaka, 1970

  Photo courtesy The Mainichi Newspapers Co‚ Ltd. / Panasonic Corporation.
  

• COVER

  COVER

  Expotecture
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Expotecture
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Fair Trade

  Paul Greenhalgh introduces Expos: "the most effective peacable way to wage war"

  Text: Paul Greenhalgh
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Heart of Glass

  The Crystal Palace, London, 1851

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Beautiful Climbing Frame

  The Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Manufactured Consent

  Jonas Staal on propaganda and commerce at the 1937 and 1939 World’s Fairs

  Text: Jonas Staal
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Fascists to Fashionistas

  Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Rome, 1942

  Text: Rob Wilson
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  The Future is Here

  Philosopher Mark Kingwell remembers the 1967 Montreal Expo

  Text: Mark Kingwell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Memories Worth Keeping

  Time Capsule, Osaka, 1970

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Progress and Harmony for Mankind

  Crystal Bennes looks back at the optimism of Osaka Expo 70

  Text: Crystal Bennes
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Live Fast, Die Young

  After the party at Hanover Expo 2000 by Rob Wilson

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FOUND

  FOUND

  DIY Expo

  The World is Not Fair, Berlin, 2012

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Putting an End to the Vanity Fair

  Exclusive interview with Jacques Herzog about the Expo 2015 masterplan

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Richard van der Laken

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XXII. The Future Was Yesterday

  Text: Klaus
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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