What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Technical Assistance

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

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.

Seeking Sanctuary

Urban Investigations

Seeking Sanctuary

The Fresh Producers

Urban Investigations

The Fresh Producers

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Pay Dirt

City Studies

Pay Dirt

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Public Access Design

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We Are Public Housing

Making Policy Public

We Are Public Housing

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza