Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Shifty Business

Public Access Design

Shifty Business

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Swipe Out

Urban Investigations

Swipe Out

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Is Justice For All?

City Studies

Is Justice For All?

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!

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

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Public Access Design

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

Vendor Power!

Making Policy Public

Vendor Power!