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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Thursday, March 8, 2012 5PM
New Call for teaching artist for City Studies class on neighborhood change | East Williamsburg | 3-session project
We’re seeking a teaching artist to design and implement a 3-session project for high school students at the Lyons Community School in East ...
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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 visited 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
Thursday, October 13, 2011 6PM
The CUP benefit brought together artists, designers, community advocates, and other urban enthusiasts for an evening of conversation, cocktails, and CUP projects!
- The Green Building
452 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, October 1, 2011 11AM
We demonstrated the Sewer in a Suitcase, CUP’s working model of New York City’s sewer system, at two events over the weekend of October 1. The Sewer in a Suitcase made its first stop on Saturday at the New York Green Block Party, an all-day street fair in ...
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- Freshkills Park
Sneak Peak Parking Lot
228 Wild Ave.
Staten Island, NY
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7PM
On Tuesday, September 6, we debuted Share, Where?, one of CUP’s Urban Investigations. An intrepid group of Bronx public high school students in the College Now program at Hostos Community College teamed up with CUP to find out how NYC decides where to put the ...
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- The Savoy
at Hostos Community College
120 East 149 Street, 2nd Floor
(at Walton Avenue)
Bronx, NY
