Shared Studios

With Shared Studios’ Founder Amar Bakshi

Spacesmith collaborated with Shared Studios’ Founder Amar Bakshi to create reusable, transportable spaces as vehicles for conversations between people in galleries in Tehran and NYC. Portals are shipping containers with immersive audio and video technology. Portals serve as a catalyst for conversation between communities that would not typically engage with one another due to language barriers, technological limitations and hardened stereotypes of the other.  Shared Studios launched its global network by pairing Tehran and New York. Since then, portals are set up at diverse locations including museums, universities, technology hubs, refugee camps, and arts centers. They have popped-up in the Middle East, Central and South America, North America, South and East Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.

Portals around the world