Government in Plain Sight

City Studies

Government in Plain Sight

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

Bodega Down Bronx

Urban Investigations

Bodega Down Bronx

Print Making Change

How do you change a public space, like a street? What does it take? Where do you start?

In the Spring of 2015, CUP teaching artist Douglas Paulson worked with students from the Municipal Art Society’s youth program Designing Change to investigate how to create change in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood on Belmont Avenue, a four-block commercial strip with lots of storefronts. Students explored where to gather information, who to communicate an idea to, and how to work with city organizations and building or property owners.

Students interviewed elected officials, city agencies, and business owners on how to change public spaces in Brownsville or elsewhere in New York City. Students created silhouettes, drawings, and designed a poster that demonstrates the step by step process to make change to a public space.

Making Change debuted at the Paul Cooper Center, where students presented the poster and discussed their creative process.

A Bet on Debt

City Studies

A Bet on Debt

We're Watching

Public Access Design

We're Watching

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

Our Voice, Our Choice

Urban Investigations

Our Voice, Our Choice

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Bronx Be Well

Urban Investigations

Bronx Be Well

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

Es Tu Dinero, Decides Tú

Making Policy Public

Es Tu Dinero, Decides Tú