Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Urban Investigations

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Print From Cellblock to Your Block

In March 2017, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio pledged to close the Rikers Island jail complex within 10 years and introduced plans to build four new “borough-based” jails in the city. Who decides where jails get built? How do jails impact surrounding neighborhoods? What are the impacts of jails on the incarcerated, their families, and their communities?

In the spring of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Stephen Kwok and public high school students from Life Sciences Secondary School to investigate these questions.

Students created public art interventions, surveyed community members near the Manhattan Detention Complex, and interviewed key stakeholders working on the issue. This booklet is a guide to what they discovered.

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Lotto Zone

Urban Investigations

Lotto Zone

Bail's Set... What's Next?

Public Access Design

Bail's Set... What's Next?

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

Don't Trash NYC!

Public Access Design

Don't Trash NYC!

Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?