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Public Access Design

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What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Public Access Design

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Is College For Me?

Public Access Design

Is College For Me?

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

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.


Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

Child Support?!

Making Policy Public

Child Support?!