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Public Access Design

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Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

Test Ride

City Studies

Test Ride

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Swipe Out

Urban Investigations

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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.

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Can You See My Screen?

Urban Investigations

Can You See My Screen?

It's Not Just Personal

Making Policy Public

It's Not Just Personal

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?