by Leslie | Jul 20, 2014
More often than not, the way we move through the world each day falls into familiar patterns. This can be comforting, but it can also put us on a kind of mental auto-pilot. When we disrupt these patterns—say, when we travel to a different place or experience an...
by Sam | Jul 13, 2014
In June, 2014, the Uni Project was a winner of Boston’s first-ever Public Space Invitational, a competition organized by Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. For the competition, we proposed a portable reading room that would...
by Sam | Jun 5, 2014
*Update: Uni Boston will launch Sat 7/19 at 11am with a very special guest. Details here. Join us! ________ We’re pleased to announce that the Uni Project will launch a portable, open-air reading room for Boston’s 15-acre linear Greenway park this summer...
by Sam | Jan 17, 2014
Since 2011, we’ve been sending postcards from the Uni to our donors, volunteers, and partners. Twitter works great, but we think there’s nothing quite like receiving a postcard in the mail. Here’s a look back at some of our favorites. (You can...
by Sam | Mar 12, 2013
The team behind the Uni in Almaty has done it again. Unwilling to close the portable reading room during the bitter cold Kazakh winter, they deployed in a popular shopping mall and now the Almaty International Airport. This photo from a recent news...
by Sam | Dec 17, 2012
Almaty Uni WHERE: Almaty, Kazakhstan WHEN: 2012-present In 2012, The Uni Project fabricated and shipped a full scale, 120-cube Uni structure with a custom cover system and 40 benches to Almaty, Kazakhstan. That Uni was used to create an outdoor reading room in...
