Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

What we do

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement.

CUP collaborates with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify complex policy and planning issues.

We believe that increasing understanding of how these systems work is the first step to better, more equitable, and more diverse community participation. ... more

Spotlight on

We are writing to share important news about CUP’s future and our journey over the last 13 years. After joining us as Executive Director in 2009, our leader and dear friend Christine Gaspar will step down from her role in September 2022, to make space for the next exciting chapter in the organization’s story.

CUP Announces Leadership Transition

We are writing to share important news about CUP’s future and our journey over the last 13 years. After joining us as Executive Director in 2009, our leader and dear friend Christine Gaspar will step down from her role in September 2022, to make space for the next exciting chapter in the organization’s story. ... more
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Community
Education

Making Policy Public Envisioning Development Technical Assistance Public Access Design
Making Policy Public Envisioning Development Technical Assistance Public Access Design

Projects that make planning and policy issues accessible to lay audiences.

Making Policy Public

Collaborations of CUP, designers, and advocacy organizations to create visual explanations of complex policy topics.

Envisioning Development

Interactive teaching tools, guides, and workshops about land use and urban development issues.

Technical Assistance

Commissioned projects to bring design thinking to planning and community design.

Public Access Design

Multimedia projects that use design to make complex urban issues accessible to the New Yorkers most affected by them.

Youth
Education

Urban Investigations City Studies Teacher Trainings
Urban Investigations City Studies Teacher Trainings

Civics education through experiential, project-based curricula.

Urban Investigations

Afterschool programs that give young people the tools to investigate their communities, and use art and design to create educational tools based on their research.

City Studies

Project-based, in-class and afterschool programs that use design and art as tools to research the city.

Teacher Trainings

Commissioned professional development and projects to help teachers connect their curricula to neighborhood issues and community design.

Public
Programs

Events Workshops
Events Workshops

Interdisciplinary and multimedia programming related to CUP projects.

Events

Launch events, lectures, screenings, exhibits, parties, and other public happenings related to CUP projects.

Workshops

Interactive, tactile, visual presentations on policy and planning issues using CUP educational tools.

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Urban Investigations

The Good, Bad, & Unknown