Activated during #Tweetups, this mall in New Delhi hosted a range of participants, including Bollywood stars.

After the earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico, in February 2018, students at Marymount School worked with engineers and students in Mexico City to design earthquake resistant structures out of popsicle sticks. Students were able to collaborate across distance and culture and see the real-world impact of their STEM classes.

AIM Academy helps bright children with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia thrive through an innovative, evidence-based curriculum. The Portal at AIM Academy connected to 20+ Portals around the world.

Artists working at the forefront of technological change are invited to enter Portals and play with our underlying system — including hardware and software — to create immersive creative works in AR, VR, and immersive audiovisual design.

At an annual fundraising event, the Portal connected Heifer International donors to aid recipients across the globe.

At NorthPark Center, the Portal was a communal attraction and a reminder of the value of in-person, real-world experiences. Working with Northpark, the Portal hosted dialogues and performances with the Dallas Opera, Black Dance Theater, and dozens of local arts and cultural groups. From field trips to curious shoppers, visitors sought out and returned to Northpark Center for the Portal’s evolving schedule of cultural and communal experiences.

During the global #Tweetups activation with Twitter, the Portal in Tokyo Midtown became our first Portal activation in Japan.

During the Year of Tolerance, a Portal traveled throughout the UAE connecting citizens to diverse viewpoints across the globe.

Established in 1960, The Rye Arts Center is the largest multi-arts center in the region. It is a community-based not-for-profit dedicated to inspiring interest and maximum participation in the arts in and around Westchester. They placed a Portal\_Container at the entrance to their center to expand their offerings globally, creating AR artist exchanges, classes, performances, exhibitions, and a range of outreach programs to local counterparts and partners around the globe. Bringing the Portal to The Rye Arts Center was made possible through the generous support of Sherry & Robert Wiener, Gail Harrison Roman, and The Wallace Fox Foundation. Funding was also provided through grants from ArtsWestchester and The New York State Council on the Arts.

For one week in October 2016, Chicago Ideas and Comcast brought a Portal to Daley Plaza for Chicago Ideas Week 2016, one of the world's largest gatherings for the exploration of ideas in policy, entertainment, sports, and entrepreneurship.

From collaborations with choreographers in Mexico City, to dialogues with cancer researchers at the Biden Cancer Initiative, Portals helped turn the Galleries at Texas State University into a hub for cultural programming.

Imagination Celebration in Colorado Springs is responsible for our Colorado\_Portal, and works with community partners across the city to host and program it for schools, cultural spaces, events, and festivals. Imagination Celebration connects people of all ages to the brain-stimulating, community-building, life-enhancing, power of creativity by inspiring artistic and intellectual curiosity; instigating community collaborations, and promoting life-long experiential learning that helps us thrive in a changing world. The Portal is a natural extension of this search for creativity, and allows Imagination Celebration to engage a global community of collaborators and ideators like never before.

In partnership with Narrative 4, Shared Studios has launched portals in schools in Floyd County, Kentucky; Tampico, Mexico; and in the Bronx, New York. Narrative 4 uses story exchange to build empathy, shatter stereotypes, and break down barriers between young people. These portals connect regularly with one another to expose students to young people from diverse backgrounds, and to help those students build confidence in their public speaking, communication ability, and in themselves.

In March 2016, Shared Studios, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University began work on a research initiative designed to understand community perspectives on policing in the U.S. portals were placed in cities with high rates of incarceration and police-community interaction. The researcher was eliminated from the conversation, and individuals or small groups in different locations around the country were encouraged to step inside the portal and answer a simple prompt: “What do you think of the the police?” These conversations were recorded and anonymized and are being used for a range of research applications, including a forthcoming book. Read more on their research at [www.portalspolicingproject.com](http://www.portalspolicingproject.com).

In partnership with RYOT, Portals connected the Venice Beach boardwalk to five other locations around the globe – Mexico; Iraq; Afghanistan; Sweden; and Colorado. Shared Studios Stories / Activation Summaries     Share FileEditViewInsertFormatDataToolsExtensionsHelpLast edit was seconds ago    $%123  Roboto           1 of 2 C125 OATH (Ryot)   Breakfast, lunch and dinner were served to a group of curated participants as they discussed topics such as migration, global arts and music. To enable screen reader support, press ⌘+Option+Z To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press ⌘slash        7 General Stories - What We Do   Explore Breakfast, lunch and dinner were served to a group of curated participants as they discussed topics such as migration, global arts and music.

K-Array speakers power many Portals thanks to their generous contribution. [Check out a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHPnkp95JSE&feature=youtu.be) of them in action.