With 187 years of experience and challenge, the Academy is poised to fully participate in the fast-paced, knowledge driven environment that today’s cultural consumers demand.

From 29 October 2013 to 1 November 2013 BrainStore organized a series of workshops for the National Academy in NYC.
About 50 participants joined the Academy’s Board and staff for a laboratory of ideas to help design the Academy’s next life cycle and find actions to propel the ambitious transformation of this unique, legacy rich arts organization.

In June 2012 a BrainStore team supported Curaviva.ch to discover how we would like to grow old. What does it mean to be a Senior Citizen in 2050?

We invited Senior Citizens, teenagers and health care professional to a workshop. The youngest participant was 12 the oldest one was 92.

Before the workshop, BrainStore made a short movie in which teenagers interviewed children between 4 and 15 about their ideas about getting older.

This movie served as an inspirational source during the workshop, where participants from various facilities for the elderly as well as outside thinkers came together to create new ideas with the BrainStore Ideamachine. The different facilities then started implementing the ideas they liked best, based on their own philosophy and needs.

Here is a link to the movie with ideas from children about their wishes for their own old age: http://bit.ly/curaviva_movie