The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement.
CUP collaborates with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify complex policy and planning issues.
We believe that increasing understanding of how these systems work is the first step to better, more equitable, and more diverse community participation. ... more
Projects that make planning and policy issues accessible to lay audiences.
Collaborations of CUP, designers, and advocacy organizations to create visual explanations of complex policy topics.
Interactive teaching tools, guides, and workshops about land use and urban development issues.
Commissioned projects to bring design thinking to planning and community design.
Multimedia projects that use design to make complex urban issues accessible to the New Yorkers most affected by them.
Civics education through experiential, project-based curricula.
Afterschool programs that give young people the tools to investigate their communities, and use art and design to create educational tools based on their research.
Project-based, in-class and afterschool programs that use design and art as tools to research the city.
Commissioned professional development and projects to help teachers connect their curricula to neighborhood issues and community design.
Interdisciplinary and multimedia programming related to CUP projects.
Launch events, lectures, screenings, exhibits, parties, and other public happenings related to CUP projects.
Interactive, tactile, visual presentations on policy and planning issues using CUP educational tools.
