Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Lunchroom Digest

City Studies

Lunchroom Digest

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Is There A Pattern?

Urban Investigations

Is There A Pattern?

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Public Access Design

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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.

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

It's Not Just Personal

Making Policy Public

It's Not Just Personal

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Scary, Ok With it, Good

City Studies

Scary, Ok With it, Good

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?