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:
New partnership with NYC Parks
We're proud to announce a new partnership between the Uni Project and NYC Parks Department that will bring pop-up reading rooms to priority parks identified in the Mayor’s Community Parks Initiative addressing equity in the city. Thanks to support from Leaves of Grass...
Uni Project to help create portable local history museum
The Uni Project is partnering with SoHo native Yukie Ohta to create the first roving neighborhood history museum for NYC. Today starts a monthlong Kickstarter campaign by Yukie to launch the effort. Yukie is founder of the SoHo Memory Project, an archive and blog, and...
Sesame Street in the Uni
Long before the Uni portable reading room, New York City streets provided a rich environment for learning. New Yorkers of all ages, colors, fur, and feathers sounded out words and read together on stoops. It happened on television, but it forever changed people’s...
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...