Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Shifty Business

Public Access Design

Shifty Business

Who Makes Bail?

Urban Investigations

Who Makes Bail?

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

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.

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!