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.
Look back at more of our deployments at Chelsea Market:
Leslie speaking at NYCxDESIGN Week
This Friday in Long Island City, Leslie Davol, Co-founder/Executive Director of Street Lab/Uni Project will be speaking on a lunchtime panel as part of NYCxDESIGN Week. Registration here (free).
NYC architects and designers: help design a communal table for the streets!
Calling NYC architects and designers! Join a charrette hosted by Open Architecture New York on Thursday, May 16 and help design a communal table that we'll use in public spaces across the city to bring New Yorkers together. We're constantly rolling out new programs...
READ and EXPLORE on Woodside Ave with Drag Queen Story Hour
Our pop-up reading room and urban nature exhibit returned to Woodside Ave to help celebrate Songkran (Thai New Year) at a terrific Weekend Walk hosted by Thai Community USA NYC / Qi Will. People held birds from Washington Square Park Eco Projects, and the amazing...
Our 2019 partnership with NYC DOT gets underway in East Village
In 2019, our collaboration with NYC Department of Transportation will keep expanding, as we work together to activate plazas, street festivals, and other public spaces and encourage residents to come together on neighborhood streets. This weekend, we kicked things off...
Testing a new program for the street WRITE
READ, DRAW, BUILD are a few of the programs we've put on the street since 2011—each one based around a simple activity that New Yorkers can do together in public space. In 2019 we're launching WRITE, and we offered a taste to folks in Chelsea Market on Sunday. People...
Our residency at Chelsea Market wraps up as we head outdoors
This weekend we gathered around an elegant still life created with local shop Pearl River and ended our residency at Chelsea Market in style. Thanks to Chelsea Market for hosting us this winter. We now head outdoors—see you on the street![ngg src="galleries"...