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:
Postcards from the Uni
At the end of each year, we send postcards from the Uni to a select list of folks. Originally conceived as a reward for our Kickstarter donors, postcards have become our tradition. The cards let us share moments from the street. And they let us reflect on the...
Uni reading room helps residents envision new plaza in Brooklyn
The Uni portable reading room is designed to share books, promote learning, and improve public space. That final criteria is why we love deployments like our visit yesterday to the corner of Ocean and Parkside Avenues in Brooklyn. We joined a one-day event organized...
Daniel Handler and Neil Gaiman face off in the Uni Reading Room with National Book Foundation
This morning, The Uni Project teamed up with some wonderful friends of ours, Daniel Handler, Neil Gaiman, and the folks at National Book Foundation, to try to give New Yorkers...hypothermia! Below are photos from our coldest reading room yet. In fact, it was simply...
Penguin Random House supports reading across NYC
Thanks to a generous donation from Penguin Random House, The Uni Project was able to add ten reading room deployments to our 2014 season. The company also pledged 500 books to our collection—a terrific resource that we will continue to draw upon in 2015. Thank you to...
Uni returns to Brownsville for Halloween at Zion Plaza
The Uni met several hundred kids and a marching band in Brownsville this Halloween. We went to Brooklyn to join a festival organized by Halloween 2013.
Uni Tower at Brooklyn Children’s Museum October 2014-January 2015
The Uni Project has teamed up with Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) to create a science reading station inside the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Part of an exhibit called “More Than Meets the “I” exploring the new frontiers of biology, health, robotics &...