The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Urban Investigations

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

$ Breakdown

Urban Investigations

$ Breakdown

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

2015

news

As part of a new feature on CUP collaborators, we asked Jonathan Jackson and Sarah Nelson Jackson from WeShouldDoItAll, a New York City-based design team, to tell us a little bit more about themselves and their thoughts on working on a CUP project.

news

CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, is part of Design for Equity, a group of design and social justice leaders that are promoting a focus on equity in the field of public interest design. Over the next few weeks, the group will be contributing a series of ... more

open call

Monday, February 23, 2015 10AM

We’re looking for a teaching artist to lead an Urban Investigation project for high school students in the summer of 2015.

talk

On February 17th, 2015, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, spoke at MIT’s City Design and Development Forum. The student-led Forum, a series of public guest lectures, has featured important practioners, designers, and scholars in the City Design and ... more

launch event

Monday, February 9, 2015 7PM

The New York City Council passes laws and approves the city budget. But, as important as their role is, few people know how the City Council actually works. How does it make decisions? And how can you interact with it? In this latest Urban ... more

launch event

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 7PM

Last year, two developments in NYC received an avalanche of media attention for their use of separate entrances for market-rate tenants and affordable housing tenants—what some called the “poor door.” Where did the “poor door” come ... more

news

CUP is pleased to announce our Making Policy Public collaborations for 2015! We will work with four groups of inspiring designers and advocates to break down complex policy issues so that more people can be involved in the decision-making impacting their ... more

open call

Monday, January 12, 2015 5PM

CUP is seeking a spring intern to assist with several current projects, which may include:

open call

Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:21AM

Like many of our fellow New Yorkers, and Americans, we at CUP struggled with the news of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions. Many of us joined in protests and in supporting the work of our partner organizations who continue to work to reform ... more

The Fresh Producers

Urban Investigations

The Fresh Producers

We Are Public Housing

Making Policy Public

We Are Public Housing

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Who Makes Bail?

Urban Investigations

Who Makes Bail?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

What Up With DAT?

Technical Assistance