We were excited and honored to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts awarded CUP with a grant for 2015-16! The grant supported CUP’s Making Policy Public program, which uses art and design to make public policy accessible for everyone. Each poster is the ...
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On Thursday, April 30th, we launched Your Guide to Welfare in NYC, a Making Policy Public collaboration of CUP, the Safety Net Project (SNP), and design team All Other Services. CUP and SNP held a press conference with NYC’s Human Resources Administration (HRA), the ...
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On Tuesday, April 28th, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, joined Kemi Ilesanmi of The Laundromat Project and Katy Rubin of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC for a Professional Organization of Women in the Arts (POWarts) Colleagues & Friends Breakfast. In this ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 10AM
CUP was featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s All This Belongs To You, a show exploring the role of the museum in public life. The exhibition ran from April 1st, 2015 to September 30th, 2015.
How can public interest design organizations ensure that their day-to-day internal operations reflect their values? Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, and Jess Zimbabwe, Executive Director of the Rose Center for Public Leadership at ULI, shed light on the ...
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Monday, March 23, 2015 11:38AM
Public housing residents and advocates, from groups like Community Voices Heard and Real Affordability for All, showed up in large numbers in Albany, N.Y. on Monday, March 16th, 2015. The groups rallied, using our We Are Public Housing poster as a call to action, ...
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As part of a new feature on CUP collaborators, we asked Jonathan Jackson and Sarah Nelson Jackson from WeShouldDoItAll, a New York City-based design team, to tell us a little bit more about themselves and their thoughts on working on a CUP project.
CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, is part of Design for Equity, a group of design and social justice leaders that are promoting a focus on equity in the field of public interest design. Over the next few weeks, the group will be contributing a series of ...
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Monday, February 23, 2015 10AM
We’re looking for a teaching artist to lead an Urban Investigation project for high school students in the summer of 2015.
On February 17th, 2015, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, spoke at MIT’s City Design and Development Forum. The student-led Forum, a series of public guest lectures, has featured important practioners, designers, and scholars in the City Design and ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 7PM
The New York City Council passes laws and approves the city budget. But, as important as their role is, few people know how the City Council actually works. How does it make decisions? And how can you interact with it?
In this latest Urban ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 7PM
Last year, two developments in NYC received an avalanche of media attention for their use of separate entrances for market-rate tenants and affordable housing tenants—what some called the “poor door.” Where did the “poor door” come ...
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