Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Is Suspension The Solution?

City Studies

Is Suspension The Solution?

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Voice Recognition

Urban Investigations

Voice Recognition

Print Making Change

How do you change a public space, like a street? What does it take? Where do you start?

In the Spring of 2015, CUP teaching artist Douglas Paulson worked with students from the Municipal Art Society’s youth program Designing Change to investigate how to create change in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood on Belmont Avenue, a four-block commercial strip with lots of storefronts. Students explored where to gather information, who to communicate an idea to, and how to work with city organizations and building or property owners.

Students interviewed elected officials, city agencies, and business owners on how to change public spaces in Brownsville or elsewhere in New York City. Students created silhouettes, drawings, and designed a poster that demonstrates the step by step process to make change to a public space.

Making Change debuted at the Paul Cooper Center, where students presented the poster and discussed their creative process.

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Public Access Design

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

If You Can Make It Here...

Urban Investigations

If You Can Make It Here...

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court