Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

From Cellblock to Your Block

Urban Investigations

From Cellblock to Your Block

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.

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

H2 Oh No!

Technical Assistance

H2 Oh No!

Now Boarding

Urban Investigations

Now Boarding

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home