The Human connection company
The Portal is located at the Shared Studios offices in Hayes Valley. Previously, it was located at various sites across the city including the Presidio and at Hayes Valley.
Google used Portals at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit to connect participants to innovators at their Google for Entrepreneurs hubs in London, Seoul and Mexico City. Start-up founders who could not attend were able to pitch to Silicon Valley VCs and connect with mentors without ever having to leave their cities.
The San Francisco Portal came to Crissy Field in partnership with Luminalt, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service as an Art in the Parks endeavor. The Portal was powered by solar, courtesy of Luminalt, a San Francisco-based solar company.The San Francisco Portal was placed in the heart of the Golden Gate National Parks—at the Crissy East Beach, near the Crissy Field Center, from July 20 through September. The Portal was part of the Art in the Parks initiative whose goal was to provide programs to connect their visitors with creative experiences in the park that are transformative, unexpected, and inspirational.
For one year, a Portal at Oakland International High School connected it to the globe. The school was founded to provide a quality alternative education for recently arrived immigrant students, with a focus on English language acquisition and in preparation for college. Weekly connections with Milwaukee, Honduras, Erbil, and Andover explored family, trust, political corruption, and a comparison of dance moves.
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Chris is a Silicon Valley national and international speaker, thought Leader, and culture & inclusion advocate. He works with corporations and organizations in driving impact acceleration and removing barriers to innovation. He is also the founder of BTMP, a Mentor-Mentee program that inspires, educates and brings underserved black communities into technology. Chris is also Founder of XR platforms, Flotilla, HoloPractice and the Immersive Directory. He lectures on the hyper real constructs of extended reality. He is a maker of fully equipped immersive Holodecks, and medical technology software for XR. Over the course of his career, Chris has executed and managed business development for thousands of campaigns and projects. An expert in lab-to-market platform launch.
What if you could talk to a stranger on the other side of the world as if you were in the same room together? Learn about the origins of Shared Studios and portals. The documentary follows middle schoolers as they step into the Richmond Portal and connect with two muralists in Mexico City. "Passion Projects" is a docuseries about turning passion into purpose and its impact on the world.
Thousands of commuters buzz by it; dozens more see it from the Starbucks line less than 100 feet away. But only a few enter this gold box in the middle of downtown Los Angeles' Grand Park. "That was amazing," Bernadine Harris said as she stepped out of the shipping container covered in gold paint. Moments before, she was speaking live to an Iraqi refugee standing in front of her — on a large video screen.
When the Harvard- and Yale Law-educated artist and journalist Amar Bakshi, born and raised in Washington D.C., was traveling the globe seven years ago for his How the World Sees America interview series, he realized something: People often kept letters from American pen pals dating back to the 1980s, before the Internet made other modes of international correspondence possible.
It amazes me just how universal hip-hop has become. Here in America it was originally created as a means to express ourselves despite the forces oppressing us. Blacks had few ways to convey their thoughts publicly so we confused creativity with passion in hopes that the words in our hearts would be felt. Today I spoke with a man on the other side of the world who said that positive hip-hop is blooming where he lives in Afghanistan. It’s inspirational to say the least. I’m honored to be able to share my voice with the world. This portal is a gift, a treasure in time that I feel will one day be incredibly impacting! Javier S
This is an amazing experience. Really works as art but as cultural diplomacy as well. Bravo!
A terribly important art exhibit that instantly breaks down the arbitrary borders we put between countries.
