Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Air Fair?

City Studies

Air Fair?

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 Fresh Producers

Urban Investigations

The Fresh Producers

Level Up

City Studies

Level Up

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

What You Need To Know About ACS

Making Policy Public

What You Need To Know About ACS

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public