The Portal at Makers Valley has been set up with the United Nations Museum. Makers Valley is a neighbourhood in Johannesburg inner city, just east of the CBD.  It stretches from New Doornfontein to Bezuidenhout Valley, and includes Bertrams, Judith’s Paarl, Troyeville and Lorentzville. The name ‘Makers Valley’_ _refers to the growing presence and activities of many forms of creative entrepreneurism in the area.  Artists, cultural practitioners, artisans, urban gardeners, carpenters, shoemakers, metal and woodworkers, clothing designers and others, live and work in the Valley.  The evolving community culture builds on versions of the **[Makers Movement within the 4th Industrial Revolution](https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/guide/go-make-something-growth-maker-movement/)** which encourages creativity, sharing, giving, learning, participation, mutual support and positive change.  The concept and practice of _Change_making is key to many of the activities within the Valley.  Building on the Changemaking concept originally coined by **[Ashoka](https://wellbeing.changemakers.com/#get-the-report)**, activities are inspired by the conviction that progressive entrepreneurs and organisations mobilising locally can help to propel systemic change within a **[Wellbeing Economy](https://wellbeingeconomy.org/)** framework.

The Portal at Parish Episcopal School connected to the world.

The Portal at TAPS connects the families of veterans around the world. Since 1994, TAPS has provided comfort and hope 24/7 through a national peer support network and connection to grief resources, all at no cost to surviving families and loved ones. TAPS provides a variety of programs to survivors nationally and worldwide.

The Portal at the Natural History Museum of Denmark was established in partnership with the United Nations Live Museum with support from the Ikea Foundation as part of a global dialogue on climate.

The Portal at the US Institute of Peace connected to peace builders across the globe. Our founder, Amar Bakshi, spoke with a "father of the Internet" Vint Cerf in a panel called "The Birth of the Internet and the Best of the Internet."

The Portal in Greenwich Academy opened students up to the world through curated programming.

The Portal was placed as part of Dance Africa and connected musicians in Brooklyn to counterparts in Kigali, Lagos, Bamako and more.

The Vanderbilt\_Portal connected students at Vanderbilt to counterparts in Mexico City, Mexico, for classes, language roundtables, performances, and curated conversations.

This Portal in Australia was activated as part of the global Tweetups initative.

Through portal rooms at both sites, faculty at the United World College (UWC) secondary school in Montezuma, New Mexico, teach classes simultaneously attended by UWC students and youth at the Camino Nuevo Youth Detention Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. UWC has an ongoing relationship with Camino Nuevo. But before portals were installed at UWC and the youth detention center, faculty and students could only visit the detention facility once per month, embarking on a two-hour drive each way. Now, with portals, youth at both sites interact three times a week in a variety of classes around art, ethics, and college preparedness.

We brought a Portal to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's annual gathering in Athens on philanthropy.

We host virtual dialogues with Women Moving Millions to bring refugees into dynamic conversations with world leaders.

We work with Planet Word to create global conversational experiences on language.

We work with World50 to bring leaders of Fortune 50 companies together with inspiring, challenging voices from across the globe.

We worked with 92Y to schedule a series of global connections for their 7 Days of Genius Festival.

When Verizon wanted to highlight the power of the 5G network in late 2018, they turned to Shared Studios to activate Portals in five cities around the world and cast dynamic millennials to share food and discuss the role of technology in their lives.