Monday, May 7, 2012 5PM
CUP is seeking a teaching artist assistant to collaborate on an Urban Investigation in the Bronx this summer. CUP’s intensive project-based curricula enable students to explore fundamental questions about how the city works, through collaborative research and ...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012 5PM
CUP is seeking collaborators for the next four issues of Making Policy Public, our publication series that uses graphic and information design to explore and explain complex public policy issues. We are looking for community or advocacy organizations working on important ...
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CUP’s Making Policy Public project on street vendor rights is featured in designer and author Andrew Shea’s new book, Designing for Social Change.
Find out more and get the book here.
Are YOU ready to decide how to spend millions of taxpayer dollars? Voting is now underway for Participatory Budgeting in NYC! Anyone 18 or older who lives in one of the participating districts can help decide how to spend millions of dollars on community projects – and ...
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- Visit pbnyc.org for more info about how to vote and what’s on the ballot.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7PM
Will you be ready if a disaster strikes? What about your neighborhood? Who’s responsible for making a plan for your community? While government officials have a city-wide plan, and plenty of advice to share with individuals, there’s not much out there on ...
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- the American Red Cross in Greater New York
520 West 49th St (between 10th & 11th Aves)
New York, NY
Thursday, March 15, 2012 5PM
CUP is seeking a graphic designer to collaborate on our
“Make Your Own Urban Investigation” guide.
Urban Investigations are experiential youth education programs that use collaborative research and design to enable high school students to explore fundamental ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012 12:20PM
Students from Mr. Sandoval’s 9th Grade U.S. History class who helped to create a “Field Guide to Federalism” presented it to their peers at the Academy of Urban Planning.
To create the booklet students hit the streets of Bushwick with teaching artist ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:30PM
On January 19th we celebrated the launch of our new website.
Check out photos from the event here.
- CUP HQ
232 Third Street #D201
Brooklyn, NY
Friday, December 16, 2011 3PM
Hester Street Collaborative and the Center for Urban Pedagogy presented a panel discussion about design and social change. We presented models for collaboration between designers and community-based partners that help to engage local residents around planning issues, ...
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- Pratt Institute
Higgins Hall North, Room 406
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:18PM
We’ll be going to press soon with our next issue of Making Policy Public. For this one we’re collaborating with designer Jeff Lai and Community Voices Heard. Those mini drafts above are just a sampling of the many iterations the project has been through on its ...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7PM
While the effects of public policies can be widespread, the discussion and understanding of these policies are usually not. Center for Urban Pedagogy Executive Director Christine Gaspar visits Van Alen Books to discuss Making Policy Public, a series that pairs advocacy ...
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- Van Alen Books
30 West 22nd Street
New York, NY
Thursday, November 10, 2011 12PM
On November 10, CUP presented our Urban Investigation “Power Trip” to a buzzing group of Queens high schoolers. The project —a collaboration between CUP, CUP teaching artist Samantha Contis, and students from Aviation High School— asked “where ...
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- Queens Public Library, Broadway Branch
40-20 Broadway
Long Island City, NY
