Oct 11, 2012
We’re hard at work on the Uni now, and you can read all about it on the Uni web site, which picks up where this blog leaves off. Below, the Street Lab blog looks back at our previous projects, like a community film series in a vacant lot, performing arts...
Jul 16, 2011
Our 30-day fundraising drive for the Uni launched this morning on Kickstarter. We’re asking people to help us create a portable, open-air reading room for New York City launching this fall. Join us by: pledging on Kickstarter (pay only if we reach our goal on...
Jul 6, 2011
We’re just a few days away from launching a fundraising drive to build the Uni, a portable reading room for public space. We’d like to offer a preview of the Uni to those of you following the blog here at Boston Street Lab. Below are new links—feedback...
May 9, 2011
This weekend I walked up and down the Bowery and around Sara D. Roosevelt Park in NYC to see what ideas were on offer at the street festival called “StreetFest,” organized by the New Museum in conjunction with its Festival of Ideas for the New City. I knew...
Apr 24, 2011
Chelsea Gunn is one of five volunteer UNI librarians working with Boston Street Lab on the UNI, which is our project to create a portable, outdoor reading room for cities. As part of that work, Chelsea attended the Beyond Book Conference on the future of Libraries and...
Mar 21, 2011
This post is a quick compilation of research by UNI Librarians Lindsey Danis and Chelsea Gunn on the status and history of Bookmobiles in Boston. Our goal was to draw on the bookmobile experience as we develop the UNI. BOSTON BOOKMOBILE TIMELINE Historical (Boston...
