This week, a New England librarian and friend of the Uni sent me a children’s picture book about a broken down bus that gets turned into a community center. We happily read it around the office, and it struck me that she gave the picture book just like others...
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...
The Uni is part library, part classroom, and entirely portable. We use it to transform public space and to open a new front in the effort to educate, support, and inspire urban kids. The walk home from school is cluttered with opportunities to consume—let’s put...