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:
Uni begins residency in White Park, East Harlem
The Uni Project launched a one month residency in historic White Park, named for civil rights activist and author, Walter White (1893-1955). We'll be here four Friday afternoons starting May 19, assisted by students from the Young Women's Leadership School of...
Uni EXPLORE cart returns to Chinatown
The Uni Project was back in Chinatown's Sara D. Roosevelt Park this weekend with our EXPLORE cart created in partnership with the Harlem-based HYPOTHEkids. The portable science lab and biological drawing activity is a runaway hit in this location. Made possible with...
New EXPLORE cart brings STEAM learning to NYC Chinatown
The Uni Project returned to Chinatown's Sara D. Roosevelt Park this weekend and brought something new: an EXPLORE cart created in partnership with the Harlem-based HYPOTHEkids for their STEAM the Streets initiative. People gathered around microscopes and magnifying...
The Uni at the Central Park Zoo with The Drawing Center
Every Saturday in May, the Uni DRAW cart will transformed into a field station of the Department of Tropical Research at the Central Park Zoo, where visitors can draw from specimens and learn how ecologist William Beebe and his team of scientists worked with...
Uni reading room on the street in Elmhurst Queens
The Uni Project teamed up with NYC DOT to vist a Weekend Walk hosted by Thai Community USA NYC. We were also honored to give a tour of the Uni to librarians from Aarhus, Denmark—they have launched their own mobile library project called MobiBiblioteket, making use of...
Uni Project partners with HYPOTHEkids to launch new STEAM cart in the Bronx
This week, the Uni portable reading room landed at a NYC DOT Weekend Walk hosted by SOS South Bronx and Morrisania. People gathered around to look at ants and other specimens through microscopes and magnifying glasses at a portable science lab that we developed with...