Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

The Cargo Chain

Making Policy Public

The Cargo Chain

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

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.

We Own It

Making Policy Public

What Up With DAT?

Technical Assistance

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

Public Access Design

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

The Water Underground

Urban Investigations

The Water Underground

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine