The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Is College For Me?

Public Access Design

Is College For Me?

Level Up

City Studies

Level Up

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

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.

Puff Puff Passed

Urban Investigations

Puff Puff Passed

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

The Internet is Serious Business

Urban Investigations

The Internet is Serious Business

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories