Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Soak It Up!

City Studies

Soak It Up!

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

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!

Common Cents

City Studies

Common Cents

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Public Access Design

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets