Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Urban Investigations

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

It's Not Just Personal

Making Policy Public

It's Not Just Personal

Get Money

City Studies

Get Money

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

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.

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Break it Down!

Making Policy Public

Break it Down!

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Carbon City

City Studies

Carbon City