What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Scary, Ok With it, Good

City Studies

Scary, Ok With it, Good

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.

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

ICEbreaker

City Studies

ICEbreaker

Get Money

City Studies

Get Money

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

City Studies

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

TGNC-NYC

Public Access Design

TGNC-NYC