There is also Cartier Philanthropy, the company’s philanthropic arm which supports largely female communities across lesser developed regions of the world. Their Cartier Women’s Initiative is now in its fifteenth year during which time it has given away hundreds of thousands of pounds in grants to female entrepreneurs. When it comes to ‘women’s issues’ (a terrible phrase, if ever there was one) Cartier has been beavering away behind the scenes for many years. The fact they have decided to have this conversation in the Middle East is, one imagines, also pertinent. The Women’s Pavilion therefore is making a very clear point: that the conversation about women still has a long way to go. World Fairs are, after all, a celebration of global innovation: an opportunity for countries to showboat what they’ve got. Its presence at an expo that contains 191 pavilions, all of which are typically hosted by countries, is unusual. This is The Women’s Pavilion in association with Cartier, the first of its kind at a World Fair, and dedicated to one thing: women. Instead, it is a delicate, jewellery-box like structure, which, when lit at night, looks like a desert lantern. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not the Singapore pavilion, where dozens of hanging gardens and over 80,000 different plants greet visitors nor is it Es Devlin’s glorious UK pavilion, a giant objet d’art featuring A-I generated poems. In an unassuming corner of Dubai’s Expo 2020 you will find magical things happening.
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