After a bustling, month-long residency at Chelsea Market, our WRITE program served a few last patrons before heading out onto the streets for the rest of summer. WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market for hosting DRAW and now WRITE in Chelsea Local. Scroll down to look back at blog posts from our deployments here during 2019.
Look back at more of our deployments at Chelsea Market:
An open-air reading room and more for Union Square Park
On Sat, June 2, the Uni Project created a special, pop-up reading room for Union Square Park. We put together a collection focused on sustainability and urban nature, and we also deployed our EXPLORE program, inviting people to learn more about urban birds...
Coretta Scott King Book Awards Donation Grant
We're happy to announce that the Uni Project is a recipient of a 2018 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Donation Grant. Four large boxes of outstanding books just arrived to our office and will become part of pop-up reading rooms that we create across...
Uni open-air reading room to return to Washington Square Park in 2018
The Uni Project has been selected as a calendar for dates, and stay tuned on this blog for more details.
New program BUILD NYC deploys to Mott St in Chinatown
BUILD NYC is our new program that offers the public a way to build together and explore challenges in architecture, design, engineering and construction. On May 20, we brought BUILD to Chinatown for the Asian Pacific American Weekend Walk hosted by...
READ and EXPLORE return to Rockaways
On Friday, May 18, we brushed aside some tricky weather and deployed a portable reading room and EXPLORE science exhibit to a NYC DOT Weekend Walk, hosted by the Rockaway Business Alliance. Part of our approach to working in public space is to show up rain...
The Uni Project accepted into NYDesigns Incubation Program
We are pleased to report that the Uni Project will begin a residency at the NYDesigns Incubation Program starting on June 1. We'll migrate our office to a remarkable space in Queens with access to a fabrication shop, mentoring, and more. The move will help...