CUP’s core staff supports the organization from day to day, but CUP projects are designed and implemented by teams of artists, designers, educators, activists, and researchers.
Participatory Budgeting
Technical Assistance
Power Trip
Urban Investigations
Predatory Equity
Making Policy Public
Share, Where?
Urban Investigations
Store Stories
City Studies
Power Trip
Urban Investigations
Students from “Power Trip”
CUP and CUP teaching artist Sam Contis worked with students from Aviation High School in Queens on “Power ... moreStudents from “Power Trip”
CUP and CUP teaching artist Sam Contis worked with students from Aviation High School in Queens on “Power Trip,” an Urban Investigation about NYC’s electricity infrastructure. Those students were Hubert Goncarz and BinHua Wang; and David Park from Brooklyn Technical High School.
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Domestic Workers United
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United (DWU) is a membership-based organization of nannies, housekeepers, and elder ... moreDomestic Workers United
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United (DWU) is a membership-based organization of nannies, housekeepers, and elder caregivers organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards, and to help build a movement for social change. In 2010, DWU and its allies brought their power to bear when the nation’s first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights was signed into law in New York. New York domestic workers are now guaranteed basic rights and protections, including paid days off, overtime, and protection from discrimination. DWU is currently working with CUP on an MPP about the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.
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Anusha Venkataraman
Anusha Venkataraman is an urban planner, writer, artist, and activist. She is presently the Assistant Director of the Green ... moreAnusha Venkataraman
Anusha Venkataraman is an urban planner, writer, artist, and activist. She is presently the Assistant Director of the Green Light District initiative at El Puente, a community human rights institution in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with numerous community groups in local organizing efforts, and as a visual artist both individually and with collectives. In 2010, she edited Intractable Democracy: Fifty Years of Community-Based Planning, a book celebrating New York City’s legacy of grassroots neighborhood-based activism. Anusha was the Youth and Outreach Director at the Steel Yard in Providence, Rhode Island. She holds a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Brown University. She served on a 2013 Public Access Design jury.
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Mariel Villeré
Mariel Villeré, intern at CUP, focuses on the revitalization of post-industrial architecture and urban spaces ... moreMariel Villeré
Mariel Villeré, intern at CUP, focuses on the revitalization of post-industrial architecture and urban spaces through art, architecture, and cultural activities. Professional experience at small design studios, non-profits, and museums situates her work between disciplines. She is currently a Masters Degree candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art and holds a BA in Architecture from Barnard College, where she first learned about CUP.
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BinHua Wang
BinHua Wang, student of Aviation high school located in Long Island City. His favorite hobby is to investigate the unknown ... moreBinHua Wang
BinHua Wang, student of Aviation high school located in Long Island City. His favorite hobby is to investigate the unknown and share with the public. In the summer of 2011, he signed up to participate with CUP to solve the puzzle behind electricity and how it’s created and sent to our cities. In process of doing that, BinHua was able to acquire the skill of interviewing as well as gathering useful information. The experience he had with CUP truly helped him become a better speaker during the presentation.
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Althea Wasow
Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and a Ph.D. student in Film & Media and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. ... moreAlthea Wasow
Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and a Ph.D. student in Film & Media and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of media transition, theories of racial difference, and crime. “the wannabe,” a film she wrote and directed, won Best Short at HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival. Her work also includes “The Whole World Revolved Around Her,” featuring Wangechi Mutu, and has screened at national and international film festivals, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Queens Museum of Art, and other institutions. Althea has collaborated on documentary films, museum exhibitions, photography books, and multimedia projects including: “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” (media researcher & consultant), “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” (co-writer & senior editor), "Rikers High" (co-producer), “The Autobiography of Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment” (assistant editor), “The Innocents” (producer & project editor), and “The Mark of Cain” (associate producer). Althea is a co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and served on its board of directors for nearly ten years.
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Stephanie Whitehouse
Stephanie Whitehouse holds an undergraduate degree in Communication Design from NSCAD (Halifax) and a Master’s degree ... moreStephanie Whitehouse
Stephanie Whitehouse holds an undergraduate degree in Communication Design from NSCAD (Halifax) and a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of Manitoba. She is an exhibit designer at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, Canada. She also runs a small design studio called Public Image Co, working primarily for non-profit organizations.
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Dan Wiley
Dan Wiley is a Community Coordinator for a Congressperson in southwest Brooklyn and teaches part time at Columbia ... moreDan Wiley
Dan Wiley is a Community Coordinator for a Congressperson in southwest Brooklyn and teaches part time at Columbia University GSAPP fall urban design studio. Working in the Congressional office since 2000, he has coordinated planning projects and initiatives spanning communities from downtown Brooklyn southwest to Red Hook, Gowanus and Sunset Park. Prior to that, he served as Education Coordinator at Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (1993-1999). He holds an MA in Urban Geography from Hunter College, CUNY (2007), a BFA from Cooper Union (1987) and was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1988). Before joining the board of CUP in 2006, he participated in the Building Codes exhibition (2001) and The Programmable City. He also leads numerous interactive public neighborhood and waterborne tours. His work can be found in If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.
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Rosten Woo
Rosten Woo is a cultural producer living in Los Angeles. He makes work that helps people understand complex systems and ... moreRosten Woo
Rosten Woo is a cultural producer living in Los Angeles. He makes work that helps people understand complex systems and participate in group decision-making. He produces that work in partnership with local and national groups ranging from the American Human Development Project to the East Los Angeles Community Corporation. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, the New Museum, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Netherlands Architectural Institute, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, on the internet, and in various public housing developments, tugboats, shopping malls, and parks in New York City and Los Angeles. His first book, “Street Value,” was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010. He is co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). His website: www.wehavenoart.net
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Erika Wood
Erika L. Wood is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the ... moreErika Wood
Erika L. Wood is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice where she designed and launched major reform campaigns around the country and provided legal counsel and strategic guidance to advocates, legislators, and policymakers nationwide. Erika has litigated complex civil rights cases and is a frequent speaker and commentator on voting rights, criminal justice reform and racial justice issues. In 2010, she worked with CUP to produce the MPP Know Your Lines.
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a community-based farmworker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, with ... moreCoalition of Immokalee Workers
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a community-based farmworker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, with over 4,000 members. The CIW seeks modern working conditions for farmworkers and promotes their fair treatment in accordance with national and international labor standards. The CIW uses creative methods to educate consumers about human rights abuses in the U.S. agriculture industry, the need for corporate social responsibility, and how consumers can help workers realize their social change goals. The CIW is currently working with CUP on the Tomato Supply Chain MPP.
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Amber Yared
Amber Yared is an artist and educator. She received a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from Concordia University in ... moreAmber Yared
Amber Yared is an artist and educator. She received a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from Concordia University in Montreal, a BEd from OISE/UT in Toronto, and an MAAE from SAIC in Chicago. She has experience in museum education, community arts, and high schools. In 2006 she interned with CUP and worked on The Water Underground and What’s Poppin’ at Fulton Mall.
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Marisa Yiu
Marisa Yiu is an architect and founding partner of ESKYIU a multi-disciplinary architecture, design and research studio ... moreMarisa Yiu
Marisa Yiu is an architect and founding partner of ESKYIU a multi-disciplinary architecture, design and research studio actively integrating culture, community, art and technology. Yiu served as the Chief Curator of the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture. She has published in LOG, DomusChina, Metropolis, JAE, Routledge, and Architectural Record. She is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her B.A from Columbia and M.Arch from Princeton and involved in New York’s Chinatown Design Lab. With CUP she led and taught workshops at the summer design institute with the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, and created with Eric Schuldenfrei the Urban Renewal animation and activity tables for CUP’s exhibition “City Without a Ghetto”.
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Kaz Yoneda
Kaz is an architect based in Tokyo, Japan. He participated in “Detroit Do Your Thing!” 2007, graduated with ... moreKaz Yoneda
Kaz is an architect based in Tokyo, Japan. He participated in “Detroit Do Your Thing!” 2007, graduated with Bachelor in Architecture from the Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning with three concentrations in theory, history and technology. 2007-2009, worked for Sou Fujimoto Architects. 2011, received Master in Architecture II with Distinction from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2011, appointed the Coordinator and Teaching Associate for Harvard GSD abroad studio taught in Tokyo by Toyo Ito on “Home for All” projects in Tohoku region. 2012, began collaboration with takram design engineering. While investigating new architectural theory and design process that fuses research, design and praxis, Kaz is also active in wide range of activities from education to product design.
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Students from I Heart East New York
Students from the BCCP at Wingate Campus on the I Heart East New York Urban InvestigationStudents from I Heart East New York
Students from the BCCP at Wingate Campus on the I Heart East New York Urban Investigation
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Kristen Zeiber
Kristen has been a CUP fan for a few years, and was thrilled to get to intern at CUP during a gap between semesters at MIT, ... moreKristen Zeiber
Kristen has been a CUP fan for a few years, and was thrilled to get to intern at CUP during a gap between semesters at MIT, where she is studying architecture and urbanism. Before MIT she worked in Mississippi for over 4 years at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, and has dabbled here and there in woodworking and design/build projects. She has an undergraduate degree in architecture, and probably too many crafty hobbies.
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Kate Zidar
Kate Zidar is an Environmental Planner with a professional focus on solid waste, open space, urban agriculture and ... moreKate Zidar
Kate Zidar is an Environmental Planner with a professional focus on solid waste, open space, urban agriculture and stormwater management. As Executive Director of the Newtown Creek Alliance, she works to strike a balance between waterfront access, environmental health and economic development for the city’s most polluted waterway and one of it’s strongest centers for manufacturing and industrial jobs. Kate serves as Chairperson of the Steering Committee for the Stormwater Infrastructure Matters (S.W.I.M.) Coalition, an organization dedicated to ensuring swimmable, fishable waters around New York City through Green Infrastructure. Kate is CUP’s biggest fan.
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