Updates about our work

The Uni returns to the Lower East Side once again! This time, we'll visit IDEAS CITY 2013 to show folks how the Uni works. Come meet us Sat 5/4, 11am-6pm on Stanton St at Bowery (map). We'll show off the Uni infrastructure, including a new bench design. On site, we'll...

Coinciding with the Uni's visit to the PS1 Dome at the Rockaways in April, 2013, the Museum of Modern Art curated and donated a cube of outstanding books that will engage kids and adults across NYC for years to come. MoMA's publications program has been an integral...

On a breezy Saturday (4/13/13), the Uni deployed to the Rockaways in Queens, an area still recovering from Sandy. We set up a the reading room alongside the MoMA PS1 VW Dome as part of an afternoon coordinated by the Queens Museum of Art. This was our first outing of...

Here we go New York—the Uni heads outside this weekend. Join us and help change the landscape for learning in NYC: On Friday 4/12 (postponed-rain) the Uni will bring books and learning to a recently pedestrianized plaza in Ft. Greene Brooklyn. Locals have started a...

We'll have a unique opportunity on April 18 to present the Uni at the 10th Anniversary of the Gel Conference in NYC. Thank you to Gel founder Mark Hurst for inviting us to speak—we're sprucing up our Uni presentation deck and looking forward to trying out some new...

On Saturday, May 4, we’ll bring the Uni to IDEAS CITY StreetFest in downtown NYC. The festival’s theme, Untapped Capital, strikes a chord with us. We'll participate by doing what we do best: enlist under-untilized street-level space in the effort to educate, support...

Last week, we were discussing how to bring a taste of museums into the Uni, cube by cube. Well, this week, flip that, we're bringing a little Uni into the museum. The Uni is now on display in the Queens Museum of Art. We've deployed a mini-tower and benches as part of...