Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Know Your Lines

Making Policy Public

Know Your Lines

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Step Right Up

City Studies

Step Right Up

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

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

Scary, Ok With it, Good

City Studies

Scary, Ok With it, Good

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

My ID

City Studies

My ID

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights