Parents' Rights During COVID-19

Technical Assistance

Parents' Rights During COVID-19

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

If You Can Make It Here...

Urban Investigations

If You Can Make It Here...

Hello, My Name is Minimum Wage

City Studies

Hello, My Name is Minimum Wage

Pay Dirt

City Studies

Pay Dirt

About CUP

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement particularly among underrepresented communities. CUP projects demystify the urban policy and planning issues that impact our communities, so that more individuals can better participate in shaping them.

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

CUP projects are collaborations of art and design professionals, community-based advocates and policymakers, and our staff. Together we take on complex issues—from the juvenile justice system to zoning law to food access—and break them down into simple, accessible, visual explanations.

The tools we create are used by organizers and educators all over New York City and beyond to help their constituents better advocate for their own community needs.

Website design: Linked by Air

Find out more about CUP through this short video from the Curry Stone Design Prize.


Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

TGNC-NYC

Public Access Design

TGNC-NYC

Fast-Tracked

Urban Investigations

Fast-Tracked

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Public Access Design

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Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Technical Assistance

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design