On June 19th, 2014, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, spoke on a #ArtsEdTech panel at the Apple store in Soho.
The talk was moderated by Jessica Wilt, Founder of the ArtsEdTechNYC Meetup group, and featured short films on the work of CUP, the  ... 
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                            On April 30th, 2014, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, spoke at NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis’ series Picturing Place.
In the talk, Christine spoke about the work of CUP and how design and art can be used as democratic  ... 
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                            On April 24th, 2014, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, participated in “Who Owns the Digital City?” at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. The conference explored how information and communications technologies are changing the  ... 
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                Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:30PM
              
          
                            On February 20th, 2014, CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, spoke at the at the Seattle Public Library as part of the city’s Department of Planning and Development “Seattle 2035” event series.
The talk focused on design as a democratic tool  ... 
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                Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7PM
              
          
                            Students from the Colorado College and CUP fans from the Centennial State participated in a dialogue with CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, on how design can be used for social change. 
          
              
            
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:45PM
              
          
                            CUP’s Christine Gaspar spoke on a panel of educators, artists, and designers addressing the role of engaged learning in building better citites. The forum gathered practicioners from diverse institutions to speak from their own experiences concerning the role of  ... 
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                - AIA Center for Architecture
 536 La Guardia Place
 New York, NY 10012
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                  
              
          
                            From November 1st to the 3rd, CUP exhibited our Making Policy Public posters at The Institute Effect,  a special exhibition area presented as part of the Lisbon Architecture  Triennale. The exhibition space, located in Lisbon’s historic Museu do  Design e da Moda,  ... 
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                Wednesday, October 23, 2013 7PM
              
          
                            Jeff Maki, one of the CUP teaching artists who worked on Fast Tracked, our Urban Investigation on the extension of the 7 line, was part of a panel looking at how transportation decisions are made.
The panel examined  ... 
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                - The Old Stone House
 Washington Park,
 Fifth Avenue btwn 3rd & 4th streets
 Park Slope, Brooklyn
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Monday, June 24, 2013 1:15PM
              
          
                            CUP’s Christine Gaspar spoke about the challenge and importance of open government at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. With panels full of hackers, policymakers, journalists, and activists, the conference looked at the changing roles of  ... 
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                            CUP’s Executive Director Christine Gaspar presented our work on Making Policy Public in a National Endowment for the Arts webinar about successful social impact design projects. Our work was featuerd alongside that of Design Impact and iD+Pi.
          
              
            
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Friday, May 31, 2013 1PM
              
          
                            CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, presented a lecture on design and advocacy at Public Interest Design’s Design Futures Conference in Austin, Texas. Joined by other design practicioners from across the nation, Christine spoke to the importance of  ... 
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                Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:30PM
              
          
                            CUP fans and friends joined us in Chicago for a workshop and panel discussion about affordable housing in Chicago. CUP partnered with Converge:Exchange, Chicago Community Loan Fund, and  Archeworks to host “Community Tools for Affordable Housing” on Thursday,   ... 
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                - Archeworks
 625 North Kingsbury Street
 Chicago, IL 60654