After a bustling, month-long residency at Chelsea Market, our WRITE program served a few last patrons before heading out onto the streets for the rest of summer. WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market for hosting DRAW and now WRITE in Chelsea Local. Scroll down to look back at blog posts from our deployments here during 2019.
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Thank you Street Lab staff!
As we head into the home stretch of 2022, we’re reflecting on the contributions of the 37 people who make Street Lab possible! A big thank you to our staff: Abigail Aguilar-De Los Santos, Anaya Baptiste, Anita Chan, Anushritha Sunil, Arli Cornejal, Ashly López,...
One Big Table for NYC is on the streets
Our goal is to use pop up to bring New Yorkers together. And we aim to bring these ideas to the street rapidly. To both of these ends, with generous support from NYC Small Business Services, here is One Big Table, which our team has taken from drawing board to...
Street Lab Teens taking the lead on the street
Sixteen talented public high school students just wrapped up their work with us, closing a remarkable season of Street Lab Teens where they helped lead Street Lab activations across the city. They collaborated beautifully with each other and our community partners,...
Telling the stories of NYC small businesses, on the street
In 2022, we’ve been experimenting with new ways to support small businesses along New York City’s Open Streets. With support from NYC Small Business Services, we launched Streets Alive for Small Business, which brings programming to these commercial corridors, offers...
Getting designs onto NYC streets, learning from New Yorkers
We’re prototyping a new pop-up street bench for NYC. And the best place to learn how we’re doing is the street, of course. Designed by our longtime partner Hannah Berkin-Harper with Anushritha Sunil (both of whom have recently come onboard at Street Lab), the bench...
Street Lab increasing fabrication of our pop-up programming kits for other cities
Street Lab just shipped out 18 pallets to six different cities, which means that pop-up reading room kits, drawing studio carts, benches, tables, and more are arriving right now to communities in Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, Georgetown TX, Cass County MO, and Quincy MA.