Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

We Are Public Housing

Making Policy Public

We Are Public Housing

From Cellblock to Your Block

Urban Investigations

From Cellblock to Your Block

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

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.

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

I Got Arrested! Now What?

Making Policy Public

I Got Arrested! Now What?

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Seeking Sanctuary

Urban Investigations

Seeking Sanctuary

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets