Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

The Cargo Chain

Making Policy Public

The Cargo Chain

Level Up

City Studies

Level Up

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

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.

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza

Up Closed and Personal

Urban Investigations

Up Closed and Personal

Seeking Sanctuary

Urban Investigations

Seeking Sanctuary

Bronx Be Well

Urban Investigations

Bronx Be Well

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Air it Out

City Studies

Air it Out

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Step Right Up

City Studies

Step Right Up