A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.
Created using WEINBENAMI's approach to embodied field research, this book combines over 300 photographs, field notes and spatial observations to document this highly curated global event. It features photography by Tokyo-based Noam Levinger alongside WEINBENAMI's own analogue images and writings.
The authors approached the site as a living set, stepping into the roles of tourists, futurists, climate witnesses and creative directors. Through this lens, the Expo is revealed as a contemporary theatre of ambition, where visions of the future expose the contradictions of the present. Published as a collector's edition, the book offers a rare, multilayered portrait of one of today's most ambitious staged events.
WEINBENAMI is the collaborative duo-practice of spatial designers and creative directors Charles Weinberg and Shai Ben-Ami. Working across installation, film, scenography, and publishing, they use space as a critical tool and medium to expose contemporary myths and power structures. Their work often takes the form of constructed fragments and synthetic environments, which are grounded in observation, storytelling and spatial transformation.
