Apr 6, 2016
The Uni helped the Kensington community celebrate a new pedestrian plaza in their neighborhood at a NYC DOT One-Day Plaza event at Avenue C in Brooklyn. Our hosts were the Kensington Stewards and the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership. It was extraordinarily cold and...
Apr 6, 2016
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...
Mar 30, 2016
Looking for a challenge? Run pop-up, open-air installations that offer reading, drawing, and learning in NYC public space. You are fearless, friendly, and organized. The Uni Project is hiring. Let’s do this. (If you just want to help out from time to time,...
Mar 29, 2016
The Uni Project opened our 2016 outdoor season at Betsy Head Park in Brownsville Brooklyn. Thanks to our terrific host and partner Pitkin Avenue BID. We’ll be back around in Brownsville later this spring. Happy Easter! [hr] Powers of Ten, a flip book in the Uni...
Mar 7, 2016
The Uni Project has partnered with Yukie Ohta’s Soho Memory Project to bring local history to the streets. Here are photos of Yukie’s special cart, currently on display in the lobby of the Drawing Center in NYC. From here, the cart will pop-up at different sites...
Feb 29, 2016
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...
Feb 15, 2016
We’re busy fundraising for and planning a season of more than 100 deployments across NYC in 2016. We’ll get New Yorkers reading, drawing, and more, in public spaces across the city. Watch for new partnerships with NYC DOT to serve plazas and NYC Parks to...
Dec 14, 2015
Dear Friends of the Uni, We’re signing off for 2015 with a request: please consider a donation to the Uni Project! Your support will help bring our unique, open-air reading rooms to more New Yorkers. Our donors believe in the power of reading and learning to...
Dec 9, 2015
Every December, we send out postcards from the Uni. Our first cards went to Kickstarter donors in 2011, and now they’re a tradition. The cards let us share our experience on the street. And they let us reflect on the contributions of so many of you who the...
