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:
Street Lab designs on the streets of Seoul
This fall, the South Korean nonprofit Domansa brought Street Lab pop-ups to the streets of Seoul as part of a long-term vision of founder Heidi Cho to transform public space in her city. Domansa is an acronym that translates to "people who make up a city,” and the...
How Street Lab works with community partners to create new public spaces
Over the past decade, every one of the 2500+ pop-ups that Street Lab has completed in NYC has been at the request of a local partner. Here’s the story of just one of those 285+ community relationships—read about how we’re working with Decatur Block Association to...
Go behind the scenes at Street Lab during Open House New York 2024
Visit Street Lab’s warehouse and learn about our pop-up approach to transforming New York City public space with communities across the city. Meet Street Lab staff, test-drive new Street Lab programs and designs, and connect with other visitors who are passionate...
Street Lab’s OASIS pop-up reached 15 locations across NYC this summer
This summer we rolled out OASIS, a pop-up cooling station, to 15 locations, focusing on NYC neighborhoods with the highest Heat Vulnerability Index. Designs that cool us down, together. Thank you to AARP, ConEdison, and Street Lab’s individual donors for supporting...
We make our designs for other cities
Street Lab designs for the streets of NYC—that’s why we’re able to pop up 500+ times a year in all five boroughs. And whatever works here, we also fabricate and ship to other cities. If you are looking to bring something new to your streets, learn more here....
An update from Street Lab with a look ahead to fall and beyond
Dear friends and followers, We've got some photos below showing exciting work underway this year, and here’s a quick take on how we got here and where we’re headed. Our first year on the ground we did 12 pop-ups, many of them with the help of volunteers who are still...