by Leslie | 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...
by Leslie | 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...
by Leslie | Oct 29, 2014
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...
by Leslie | Sep 12, 2014
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...
by Leslie | Aug 10, 2014
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...
