Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Level Up

City Studies

Level Up

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Workshop

news, event, workshop

Want to get an inside look at CUP’s Youth Education programs and support more of this work with students?

workshop

What is civic engagement? What does it look like for students? How do we as educators do this work through remote learning? Join us for Taking Action Beyond the Ballot, a professional development workshop for high school educators! Taking Action Beyond the ... more

workshop

CUP recently teamed up with Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum to facilitate our Sewer in a Suitcase workshop for families at Industry City. This workshop explores New York City’s water infrastructure through hands-on activities and asks young people to invent and ... more

workshop

Would you play a game to learn how cooperatives work? When Haverford College’s Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives Program asked CUP to lead a workshop for students, we had them merge their interdisciplinary skills and design a playable game that breaks down ... more

workshop

Friday, April 28, 2017 5PM

Hey educators! Interested in learning how to engage students and make learning more hands-on? We have a professional development opportunity for you! 

launch event, news, workshop

Friday, November 6, 2015 12:30PM

CUP launched the Chicago edition of our What Is Affordable Housing? guidebook on Friday, November 6th at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in conjunction with our updated What Is Affordable Housing? workshop. The event was part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and ... more

news, workshop

Saturday, May 30, 2015 12PM

On Saturday, May 30th, CUP conducted its Sewer In A Suitcase workshop at the New Museum’s 2015 Ideas City Festival! Thousands of visitors visited our tent on the Bowery and learned about the hidden workings of NYC’s water infrastructure.

workshop

Saturday, August 23, 2014 1:15PM

What is ULURP? ULURP may sound like a monster (and some people think it is), but it stands for Uniform Land Use Review Procedure and it’s the process by which major land use changes get reviewed and approved in New York City. It’s long and complicated, making it ... more

workshop

Monday, April 28, 2014 6:30PM

In case you have not attended one of our What Is Zoning? workshops yet, here is your chance because we are doing two this week!

Party, launch event, workshop

On November 20th, 2013, CUP launched What Is Zoning? the second in our series of Envisioning Development Toolkits, with a party and four days of hands-on community workshops. Zoning law regulates land use across the city and shapes buildings, blocks, and whole neighborhoods. ... more
  • 155D East Broadway
    New York, NY

workshop

Saturday, July 20, 2013 10AM

On Saturday, July 20th, CUP broke out the Sewer in a Suitcase for two great outdoor events.  CUP came to Governors Island as part of the Metropolitan Water Alliance’s City of Water Day to teach about how the combined sewer system impacts the health and safety of ... more

TGNC-NYC

Public Access Design

TGNC-NYC

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Free For All?

City Studies

Free For All?

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

In the Streets!

Urban Investigations

In the Streets!