Scary, Ok With it, Good

City Studies

Scary, Ok With it, Good

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

ICEbreaker

City Studies

ICEbreaker

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

We Own It

Making Policy Public

We Own It

Zoning It In...

Urban Investigations

Zoning It In...

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!

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Is Justice For All?

City Studies

Is Justice For All?

What's On Your Plate?

City Studies

What's On Your Plate?

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers