Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Hello, My Name is Minimum Wage

City Studies

Hello, My Name is Minimum Wage

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

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.

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

Snack Attack

City Studies

Snack Attack

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Weathering the Storm

Technical Assistance

Weathering the Storm

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Air it Out

City Studies

Air it Out

What's On Your Plate?

City Studies

What's On Your Plate?

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA