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Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Let's Hang Out

Urban Investigations

Let's Hang Out

Talk

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9AM

CUP’s Community Education Program Director Ingrid Haftel and Community Education Program Manager Oscar Nuñez will be participating in the Center for Family Life symposium, Sanctuary Families: Preparing and Protecting Our Immigrant Neighbors. The discussion ... more

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Friday, September 15, 2017 9:15AM

CUP’s Executive Director, Christine Gaspar, will be speaking at the 2017 Design Matters Conference in Chicago, IL! The Design Matters Conference is an annual meeting that seeks to bring top designers, journalists, and civic leaders into exploratory dialogue with ... more
  • Chicago, IL

talk

Friday, September 8, 2017 3:20PM

On Friday, September 8th, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director will present a talk on Design and Civic Engagement as part of the Hopscotch Design Festival in Raleigh, NC. The Hopscotch Design Festival is a two-day event exploring the future of creativity, design, ... more
  • Raleigh, NC

talk, news, open call

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1PM

Hey Advocates! CUP’s Community Education staff members, Oscar Nuñez and Mark Torrey explained everything you need to know to create a top-notch advocate or community group application for CUP’s Making Policy Public and Public Access ... more

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 6PM

Zoning law regulates land use across the city, and shapes buildings, blocks, and whole neighborhoods. It can be a tool for preservation or for rapid physical and economic development. But how does it work? And how can every day folks get involved in the decision-making ... more

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Friday, December 2, 2016 5:30PM

Citizen! Designer! Now! As the fight for equity and justice becomes more urgent than ever, how we might use our craft as citizen designers to inform, inspire, empower and take action? What challenges need to be addressed? Which of them can designers realistically affect? How ... more
  • Parsons
    Starr Foundation Hall, Room UL102
    63 5th Avenue

talk

On Thursday, November 3rd, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director will present a talk on Design and Civic Engagement hosted by the MIT Architecture Alumni and MIT Club of New York. The talk will focus on the history of CUP, its mission and recent projects, along ... more
  • Knoll Showroom
    1330 Sixth Avenue, Second Floor
    New York, NY 10019

talk

On Tuesday, October 18th, CUP’s Christine Gaspar participated in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s, Designing for the Future, Winners’ Salon with fellow National Design Award winner, Bruce Mau of Massive Change Network. Their talk presented new ... more

talk

Monday, August 15, 2016 7PM

On Monday August 15, CUP’s Christine Gaspar, Executive Director and Ingrid Haftel, Community Education Program Manager will speak at the Santa Fe Art Institute about CUP’s work and mission. CUP will also discuss their collaboration with SFAI ... more
  • 1600 St Michael’S Drive/SFUAD Campus, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

talk

CUP’s Community Education Program Manager, Ingrid Haftel, explains everything you need to know to create a top-notch advocate or community group application for CUP’s Making Policy Public program in this webinar. Prospective applicants are walked through the ... more

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Thursday, June 30, 2016 7PM

Led by CUP’s Executive Director Christine Gaspar, this conversation with community partners, policymakers, and artists will focus on recent CUP projects that help address the needs of underrepresented communities to assert their right to health care, including such ... more

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015 5:30PM

© Ricard Estay, Public Art Agency Sweden, 2015 On Tuesday, November 24th, Ingrid Haftel, CUP’s Community Education Program Manager, spoke at Public Art Agency Sweden. She participated in a discussion about how to increase civic participation in urban development ... more

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

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Public Access Design

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Can You See My Screen?

Urban Investigations

Can You See My Screen?

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

Urban Investigations

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

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

A Bet on Debt

City Studies

A Bet on Debt