We Own It

Making Policy Public

We Own It

The Cargo Chain

Making Policy Public

The Cargo Chain

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Is Suspension The Solution?

City Studies

Is Suspension The Solution?

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

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.

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Envisioning Development

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

We Own It

Making Policy Public

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Museumopolis

Urban Investigations

Museumopolis