On three Mondays in June, the Uni transformed Morrison Ave Plaza in Soundview, the Bronx, into a place for the community to gather, read, and draw. Our host was Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and our partner was the nearby Clason’s Point branch of the New...
SHoP Architects are generous sponsors of DRAW NYC, our program that lets New Yorkers gather around drawing in public space. At the invitation of Kimberly Holden, a SHoP founder and principal, we dropped by the office this week, bringing the portable drawing studio...
Sam and I are always looking for more ways to encourage interaction between people at the Uni. So we partnered with students of Professor Rachel Urkowitz at Parsons to design us new, communal drawing activities. Here are photos of the students as they test and...
Want to know how Sam’s life in The Magnetic Fields inspired the design of one of our portable reading room kits? He wrote about that and more for Bright Magazine on Medium. Thanks to Stacy Abramson, Editor at Bright for inviting us to share the Uni with...
This summer, we created regular pop-up reading rooms at six different play streets in Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Play streets are just what they sound like—streets closed to traffic so kids can play and get physical exercise. In NYC, the Uni Project is...
September 5 marked the end of a run of monthly Uni reading rooms at two busy plazas in Brooklyn. Starting in April, we began popping-up at Putnam Triangle Plaza in Clinton Hill, and then at Fowler Square Plaza in Fort Greene, as part of a series of community events...
Reach Out and Read is a nonprofit that partners with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. To help Reach Out and Read kick-off their annual Early Literacy Awareness Week, the Uni transformed an empty plaza in front of Heritage Health Care...
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...
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...
