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:
Uni, Putnam Triangle Plaza, Brooklyn
Photos from deployment of the Uni reading room in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on June 13, 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.
Uni returns to Corona Plaza in Queens
On June 7, the Uni created an open-air reading room on Corona Plaza, a location we've visited many times before. In 2014, we'll continue our longstanding partnership with Queens Museum as they bring community-oriented programs to this emerging public space. Our work...
Hello Boston, Uni portable reading room is coming
*Update: Uni Boston will launch Sat 7/19 at 11am with a very special guest. Details here. Join us! ________ We're pleased to announce that the Uni Project will launch a portable, open-air reading room for Boston's 15-acre linear Greenway park this summer where people...
Uni in Hunts Point, Bronx
On May 31, the Uni was invited by La Casa Azul Bookstore, and Jumpstart, as well as others with a long history of promoting literacy in the city. The Uni offered a place to sit and read. Volunteers Stephanie Yee and Emily Jacobson read aloud. Nadine Hibbert and boys...
Uni returns to Tompkins Square Park
On May 30, the Uni Project wrapped up three days of open air reading rooms in Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park. Middle school-aged boys from day one or day two.)
Meejin Yoon, Uni designer, appointed head of MIT Architecture
We could never have created the Uni Project without a partnership with our friends Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler and the team at HY Architecture. They've designed all our infrastructure, responding patiently and gracefully to our crazy requests, including the first one...