Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Announcing our new board co-chairs

Announcing our new board co-chairs

Meet our co-chairs! Sabrina Hall and Ariel Fausto bring different backgrounds and perspectives to the CUP board, but both are committed to the power of design to make positive change.

Ariel Fausto is a Principal at the nationally-recognized design firm H3. As a design leader specializing in architecture for the arts, culture and public space, Ariel is interested in design that connects people to the arts, their community and each other.  From Lincoln Center Theater’s new LCT3 to a new maritime museum in Biloxi Mississippi, Ariel spearheads some of the firm’s most ambitious projects.  He studied Environmental Design as an undergraduate at Texas A&M University, and went on to receive a Masters of Architecture from MIT.

Sabrina Hall is a Senior Product Design Manager at Etsy. With a career spanning over fourteen years, she currently teaches at City Tech, and was co-chair of AIGA NY’s Mentoring program. Sabrina is passionate about writing and speaking on accessibility in design, creating opportunities for emerging designers and advocating for equity within the field of design.

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Urban Investigations

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Envisioning Development

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party