Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:18PM
We’ll be going to press soon with our next issue of Making Policy Public. For this one we’re collaborating with designer Jeff Lai and Community Voices Heard. Those mini drafts above are just a sampling of the many iterations the project has been through on its ...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7PM
While the effects of public policies can be widespread, the discussion and understanding of these policies are usually not. Center for Urban Pedagogy Executive Director Christine Gaspar visited Van Alen Books to discuss Making Policy Public, a series that pairs advocacy ...
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- Van Alen Books
30 West 22nd Street
New York, NY
Thursday, November 10, 2011 12PM
On November 10, CUP presented our Urban Investigation “Power Trip” to a buzzing group of Queens high schoolers. The project —a collaboration between CUP, CUP teaching artist Samantha Contis, and students from Aviation High School— asked “where ...
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- Queens Public Library, Broadway Branch
40-20 Broadway
Long Island City, NY
Thursday, October 13, 2011 6PM
The CUP benefit brought together artists, designers, community advocates, and other urban enthusiasts for an evening of conversation, cocktails, and CUP projects!
- The Green Building
452 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, October 1, 2011 11AM
We demonstrated the Sewer in a Suitcase, CUP’s working model of New York City’s sewer system, at two events over the weekend of October 1. The Sewer in a Suitcase made its first stop on Saturday at the New York Green Block Party, an all-day street fair in ...
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- Freshkills Park
Sneak Peak Parking Lot
228 Wild Ave.
Staten Island, NY
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7PM
On Tuesday, September 6, we debuted Share, Where?, one of CUP’s Urban Investigations. An intrepid group of Bronx public high school students in the College Now program at Hostos Community College teamed up with CUP to find out how NYC decides where to put the ...
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- The Savoy
at Hostos Community College
120 East 149 Street, 2nd Floor
(at Walton Avenue)
Bronx, NY
Thursday, September 1, 2011 7PM
On September 1st, CUP and Hester Street Collaborative led a presentation and discussion at the BMW Guggenheim Lab about design and social change. Christine Gaspar and Valeria Mogilevich from CUP joined Anne Frederick and Dylan House from HSC to present our ...
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- BMW Guggenheim Lab
First Park
Houston Street and Second Ave
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7PM
Blackberries, Razors, and Droids, OMG! We spend so much time with them, but do we know anything about how cell phones work? How do our voices travel through the air? Why do our cell phone bills work the way they do? Who owns the air?
What the Cell? is a collaboration ...
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- William S. Paley Foundation
1 East 53rd Street
Thursday, August 11, 2011 10AM
The Rockefeller Foundation has selected CUP as one of the recipients of this year’s Cultural Innovation Fund Grants! The grant will allow CUP to develop a new program that helps communitiy organizations access design services to demystify complex policy and planning ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6PM
Two years and two billion dollars from now, New York will get its first new subway stop in 22 years. Who decides where new subway stops go? And which comes first – the subway or the people?
- The Lot under the High Line at West 30th Street and 10th Avenue
Sunday, May 8, 2011 6:30PM
CUP hosted an evening of videos about the inner workings of some of NYC’s hidden systems. Ever wonder where your garbage goes when you’re done with it? Why you shouldn’t go swimming after a heavy rainfall? Who owns the Internet? Three of CUP’s ...
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- Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
Saturday, May 7, 2011 3PM
The debut presentation of Store Stories, a look into 99-cent stores, barbershops, and gift shops across three Brooklyn neighborhoods was held at the Brooklyn College Art Lab on May 7, 2011. CUP teaching artist Mads Lynnerup and students in the Brooklyn College Community ...
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- Brooklyn College Art Lab
301 Roosevelt Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
