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:
Boston Public Library in the Uni
The Boston Public Library is a key partner in helping us make a place to gather around books on Boston’s Rose F. Kennedy Greenway this summer. The library contributed a great selection of children’s picture books, young adult books, and books for teens to read on-site...
ICA Boston contributes collection of art books for Boston Uni
Coinciding with the launch of a Uni portable reading room for Boston on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art put together a wonderful collection of 17 books that will remain on the Uni’s shelves for all of Boston to enjoy. Among the...
Neighborhood Explorers Collection in the Uni
More often than not, the way we move through the world each day falls into familiar patterns. This can be comforting, but it can also put us on a kind of mental auto-pilot. When we disrupt these patterns—say, when we travel to a different place or experience an...
Two Uni Towers for Seattle Public Library
In early summer 2014, we created two Uni Towers for the Seattle Public Library. As of July 2014, the library is already using them in Seattle neighborhoods! You can follow SPL and their Uni on SPL Facebook.
Uni portable reading room for Boston
In June, 2014, the Uni Project was a winner of Boston's first-ever Public Space Invitational, a competition organized by Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Office of New Urban Mechanics. For the competition, we proposed a portable reading room that would bring out the...
Uni reading room, Fowler Plaza, Brooklyn
Photos from deployment of the Uni reading room in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn on July 11, 2014. Our host and partner was the Fulton Area Business Alliance. Made possible in part by a grant from Tribeca Pediatrics’ We Care for Your Kids Foundation. ...