Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Urban Investigations

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

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.

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Vendor Power!

Making Policy Public

Vendor Power!