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.
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What we’ve learned in the Uni
Want to know how Sam's life in The Magnetic Fields inspired the design of one of our portable reading room kits? He wrote about that and more for Bright Magazine on Medium. Thanks to Stacy Abramson, Editor at Bright for inviting us to share the Uni with educators on...
2016 season coming soon
We're busy fundraising for and planning a season of more than 100 deployments across NYC in 2016. We'll get New Yorkers reading, drawing, and more, in public spaces across the city. Watch for new partnerships with NYC DOT to serve plazas and NYC Parks to serve parks...
Shipping a Uni Tower to Wyong Shire, Australia, December 2015
Donate to the Uni Project!
Dear Friends of the Uni, We're signing off for 2015 with a request: please consider a donation to the Uni Project! Your support will help bring our unique, open-air reading rooms to more New Yorkers. Our donors believe in the power of reading and learning to lift...
Postcards from the Uni
Every December, we send out postcards from the Uni. Our first cards went to Kickstarter donors in 2011, and now they're a tradition. The cards let us share our experience on the street. And they let us reflect on the contributions of so many of you who the support the...
A portable reading room for Hillsboro Public Library
In 2015, we partnered with Hillsboro Public Library in Oregon and built them one of our portable reading room kits. The Hillsboro staff named the cart "Library on the Loose" (Lucy), and they are using the kit to reach patrons out in the community. Here are some photos...