Artist and creative lead        –        Wolfgang Buttress

Location                                     –         Ingresso EXpo, Via Giorgio Stephenson, 107, 20157 Milano, Italy

It is developed around the concept of the beehive and how new research and technology are helping to address food security and biodiversity.

Visitors to the Pavilion follow the dance of a bee, travelling through a series of landscapes. The experience starts with a journey through an orchard,

followed by a wildflower meadow and on to an impressive centrepiece The Hive, a 14m-cubed sculptural element that uses light and sound to

simulate the activity of a real beehive.

Fundamental to the Hive concept is the spherical void in the centre of the Hive, which allows people to walk inside and experience the

sensory representation of the bees’ activity. The LED light fittings, embedded into the aluminium node components, glow and pulsate to

represent the activity captured via an accelerometer within a real beehive located almost a thousand miles away in Nottingham.

Here is a link for the animated Bee Hive Pavilion