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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Uni at 2015 Gel Conference
On April 23, the Uni landed in midtown Manhattan at the Times Center for the 2015 Gel Conference. In 2013, Leslie and Sam presented at 2013 Gel, and we returned this year to share a progress report. Thanks always to Gel founder Mark Hurst for inviting us to be a part...
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A Uni for the DC Public Library
Leslie and I are excited for the DC Public Library. They have ambitious plans across the city, including transformation of their Mies-designed MLK branch into a vibrant hub of community and downtown culture. And, as of last Friday, they also have a Uni portable...
Uni reading room tower heads to Sugar Hill Museum
Our original Uni reading room tower holds a special place in our hearts. Designed by friends at HY Architecture, funded by 250 people on Kickstarter, launched on Sep. 11, 2011 in Lower Manhattan, we still use it to create reading rooms across the city today. After...
Thank you
Here at the Uni Project, we create open-air reading rooms in unexpected places. Our public reading rooms shake things up and bring out the best in people and communities. This year, we created 107 staffed reading rooms in New York City: on plazas and sidewalks, in...
Help us put reading and learning on the street
At the end of each year, Leslie and I reach out and ask people to make a donation to our nonprofit, The Uni Project. I hope you'll join us this December—we've got exciting plans for 2015, and I'd love to see your name on our "donor wall" as it travels across New York...