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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9AM

CUP’s Community Education Program Director Ingrid Haftel and Community Education Program Manager Oscar Nuñez will be participating in the Center for Family Life symposium, Sanctuary Families: Preparing and Protecting Our Immigrant Neighbors. The discussion ... more

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Friday, September 15, 2017 9:15AM

CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, will be speaking at the 2017 Design Matters Conference in Chicago, IL! The Design Matters Conference is an annual meeting that seeks to bring top designers, journalists, and civic leaders into exploratory dialogue with ... more
  • Chicago, IL

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Friday, September 8, 2017 3:20PM

On Friday, September 8th, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director will present a talk on Design and Civic Engagement as part of the Hopscotch Design Festival in Raleigh, NC. The Hopscotch Design Festival is a two-day event exploring the future of creativity, design, ... more
  • Raleigh, NC

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1PM

Hey Advocates! CUP’s Community Education staff members, Oscar Nuñez and Mark Torrey explained everything you need to know to create a top-notch advocate or community group application for CUP’s Making Policy Public and Public Access ... more

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 6PM

Zoning law regulates land use across the city, and shapes buildings, blocks, and whole neighborhoods. It can be a tool for preservation or for rapid physical and economic development. But how does it work? And how can every day folks get involved in the decision-making ... more

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Friday, December 2, 2016 5:30PM

Citizen! Designer! Now! As the fight for equity and justice becomes more urgent than ever, how we might use our craft as citizen designers to inform, inspire, empower and take action? What challenges need to be addressed? Which of them can designers realistically affect? How ... more
  • Parsons
    Starr Foundation Hall, Room UL102
    63 5th Avenue

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On Thursday, November 3rd, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director will present a talk on Design and Civic Engagement hosted by the MIT Architecture Alumni and MIT Club of New York. The talk will focus on the history of CUP, its mission and recent projects, along ... more
  • Knoll Showroom
    1330 Sixth Avenue, Second Floor
    New York, NY 10019

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On Tuesday, October 18th, CUP’s Christine Gaspar participated in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s, Designing for the Future, Winners’ Salon with fellow National Design Award winner, Bruce Mau of Massive Change Network. Their talk presented new ... more

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Monday, August 15, 2016 7PM

On Monday August 15, CUP’s Christine Gaspar, Executive Director and Ingrid Haftel, Community Education Program Manager will speak at the Santa Fe Art Institute about CUP’s work and mission. CUP will also discuss their collaboration with SFAI ... more
  • 1600 St Michael’S Drive/SFUAD Campus, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

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CUP’s Community Education Program Manager, Ingrid Haftel, explains everything you need to know to create a top-notch advocate or community group application for CUP’s Making Policy Public program in this webinar. Prospective applicants are walked through the ... more

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Thursday, June 30, 2016 7PM

Led by CUP’s Executive Director Christine Gaspar, this conversation with community partners, policymakers, and artists will focus on recent CUP projects that help address the needs of underrepresented communities to assert their right to health care, including such ... more

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015 5:30PM

© Ricard Estay, Public Art Agency Sweden, 2015 On Tuesday, November 24th, Ingrid Haftel, CUP’s Community Education Program Manager, spoke at Public Art Agency Sweden. She participated in a discussion about how to increase civic participation in urban development ... more

Participatory Budgeting

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Participatory Budgeting

A Fair Chance

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A Fair Chance

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Your Truth, Your Rights

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Your Truth, Your Rights