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The Past and Future always meet in the Present

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Fourth Portal has been reanimating dormant locations and inspiring innovation for over 20 years

Snapshot of the queue for the Fourth Portal Lab, Gravesend, attracting over 1,000 visitors 26-28 Jan 2024. 

Fourth Portal has been animating dormant locations and inspiring innovation for over 20 years. 

Snapshot of the queue for the Fourth Portal Lab, Gravesend, attracting over 1,000 visitors 26-28 Jan 2024. 

Fourth Portal stimulates knowledge exchange by bringing technology, social gathering and innovation to life.

We animate discarded locations and invigorate communities and economic activity by encouraging new businesses, job creation, income opportunities and local programmes.  

Town centres are not returning to how they were twenty years ago.

In the next ten years, businesses and jobs will have little resemblance to companies and employment from ten years ago.

Knowledge being exchanged at the Fourth Portal

The next generation of 'go-to towns' will be the ones with DIY culture.

Recent technological breakthroughs, including generative AI, will transform how people work, learn, interact, socialise and grow.

Creating the spaces and inspiring communities will be crucial for towns wishing to be part of this next wave of innovation and social revolution.