How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Level Up

City Studies

Level Up

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

Meet the…

meet the…

Susana Arellano is an architect, urban planner, designer, artist and educator. She’s also the co-founder and creative director of the social impact design firm, Agenda28. This spring, Susana and teachers from the International Community High School in the Bronx will ... more

meet the…

We pulled together an all-star group of jurors to help us select our next CUP Fellow for Change in Design! This year we are joined by: Carly Ayres, Wael Morcos, and Elijah Bobo (clockwise from top left).

meet the…

Stephanie Eche is an artist, designer, consultant, podcaster, educator, and much, much more! This spring, Stephanie and students from KAPPA International High Schoolwill collaborate on an Urban Investigation on the issue of digital equity in NYC high schools. Hear more about ... more

meet the…

For our latest round of Meet the Designer, CUP’s ongoing series spotlighting our design collaborators, we sat down with designer and teaching artist Kevin Cadena!

meet the…

We’re delighted to announce our latest Public Access Design jury, who will help us select our first Public Access Design collaborations for 2021! This year we are joined by renald Louissaint, Dr. Carole Gothelf, Ting Ting Fu, and Boyeon Choi ... more

meet the…

We’re thrilled to announce our latest Public Access Design jury who will help select the 2021 Public Access Design Fellows! This year we are joined by Kitkat Pecson, Jade Broomfield, Basma Eid, and Tok Oyewole (clockwise left to right). This stellar ... more

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We’re happy to announce our latest Making Policy Public jury! This year we are joined by Zipeng Zhu, Audrey Sasson, Mohamed Attia, and Alice Chung (clockwise, from top left). Each year, CUP has a jury of two people prominent in the organizing and advocacy fields and ... more

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For our latest installment of Meet the Teaching Artist, we sat down with Marianna Olinger!

meet the…

In these uncertain times, many artists are losing sources of income and opportunities for work. We’re keeping an updated list of resources here (including grants and relief funds for artists). But we also want to shine a light on the important cultural work ... more

meet the…

We pulled together an all-star group of jurors to help us select our next CUP Fellow for Change in Design. This year we are joined by Jerome Harris (top left), Wael Morcos (top right), and Carly Ayres (bottom right)

meet the…

We’re delighted to announce our latest Public Access Design jury, who will help us select our Public Access Design collaborations for Summer 2020! This year we are joined by Jennie Encalada-Malinowski, Shannon Finnegan, Zoë Adel, and ... more

meet the…

For our latest round of Meet the Designer, CUP’s ongoing series spotlighting our design collaborators, we sat down with design studio L+L!

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

We're Watching

Public Access Design

We're Watching

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Urban Investigations

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Swept Up

Urban Investigations

Swept Up

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up