Calling NYC architects and designers! Join a charrette hosted by Open Architecture New York on Thursday, May 16 and help design a communal table that we’ll use in public spaces across the city to bring New Yorkers together. We’re constantly rolling out new...
The Uni Project has been nominated for an award from The Institute for Public Art for our work on the streets of NYC. The Institute also posted a nice summary of our work as well (PDF). Thanks!Here’s a quote from the nomination:The Uni Project allows for a...
Dear Friends of the Uni, We’re writing with news of the Uni Project and to ask for your support. In 2018, we blew past a milestone—600 deployments in public space—and our work continues to expand beyond portable reading rooms. Through it all, we try to stay focused on...
We build our pop-up gear for libraries and other organizations that want to make a place for learning. The SoHo Memory Project has taken a Uni cart in a special direction, creating a roving local history museum for the neighborhood. Here it is on Sullivan Street...
Seven years ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2011, we created a pop-up reading room at New Amsterdam Market in Lower Manhattan. This is how we launched the work of the Uni Project in New York City. And it isn’t too different from how we do it today, six hundred...
Behind the bustle of commerce in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown is an immigrant community with residents less likely to have completed high school and more likely to be in poverty than the average New Yorker. Chinatown residents have also been chronically...
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Thanks to BUILD NYC, our new program for public space in New York City. 3Dux makes a simple, elegant architectural set for all ages. They are a family business, and we especially admire their dedication to sustainability in creating products. Come find us on the...
We’re happy to announce that the Uni Project is a recipient of a 2018 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Donation Grant. Four large boxes of outstanding books just arrived to our office and will become part of pop-up reading rooms that we create across New York...
