ALL PROJECTS / 2021

The Poem Pavilion

Year: 2021

Client: Es Devlin Studio / UK Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai

Technology: GPT-2, fine-tuned language model, poetry corpus preparation, generative text pipeline

Reference Links

Video on Vimeo

External Links

"The Poem Pavilion - EXPO 2021" on Es Devlin "Giant conical pavilion spells out poems with your contribution at Expo 2020 Dubai" by Christina Petridou for designboom "Es Devlin to Design the UK's 'Poem Pavilion' for Expo 2020 Dubai" by Niall Patrick Walsh for ArchDaily "The Poem Pavilion Expo 2020" for Luke Halls Studio

Description

Generative poetry system for Es Devlin’s UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, composing visitor-contributed words into collective poems for the pavilion facade.

The pavilion invited visitors around the world to donate words that were transformed into minute-by-minute poems displayed inside and outside the twenty-meter timber structure. IYOIYO developed the language-model workflow, corpus preparation, and generation pipeline behind that collective text system.