Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

We Own It

Making Policy Public

We Own It

Shifty Business

Public Access Design

Shifty Business

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

Lunchroom Digest

City Studies

Lunchroom Digest

Students Spring into New Investigations!

Students Spring into New Investigations!

In the past several weeks, CUP launched two Urban Investigations with students to explore social justice issues impacting New Yorkers.

CUP and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas are collaborating with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate parole and its impact on New Yorkers. What’s the difference between parole and probation? How many people are impacted by these systems and how could things be different? 

Over the next several weeks students will interview directly involved individuals, elected officials, public defenders, people working in the system, and members of their communities. Through collaborative filmmaking techniques, students will explore the issue and record what they learn to produce a video documentary. Stay tuned for more updates!

CUP and Teaching Artist Chaparro are collaborating with students from the High School for Climate Justice to explore the issue of flooding streets and subways. Why do NYC streets and subways stations flood?  How do these floods impact New Yorkers? How can we work towards a greener future? 

To explore this issue, students will interview stakeholders and members of their community, engage in collaborative artmaking, and create a final printed project that explains what they learned. Check out some images of students in action as they learned how to marble paper, make styrofoam prints, and map their neighborhood!

Snack Attack

City Studies

Snack Attack

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Up Closed and Personal

Urban Investigations

Up Closed and Personal

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Urban Investigations

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

What Up With DAT?

Technical Assistance