Center for Urban Pedagogy explained

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Abbreviation:	CUP
Formation:	1997
Founder:	Damon Rich
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Location:	232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, United States

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York City that works to improve the quality of public participation in urban planning and community design.

Background

CUP was founded in 1997 by the artist and architect Damon Rich with co-founders Oscar Tuazon (artist), Stella Bugbee (graphic designer), Josh Breitbart (media activist), Jason Anderson (architect), AJ Blandford (architectural historian), Sarah Dadush (attorney), Althea Wasow (filmmaker), and Rosten Woo (policy analyst).^[1] CUP's current executive director is Christine Gaspar.

Its goal is to communicate on the law as clearly as possible, in areas where there is a low level of education on legal matters. The CUP released the "Vendor Power" booklet informing NYC's street vendors on the law and their rights, "I Got Arrested" for underage persons getting arrested, "Know Your Lines" to raise the issue of regional lines modifications during electoral ballots.^[2]

During the fall of 2003, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the CUP organized the exhibition City Without a Ghetto themed on the development of low-cost housing in New York City since the late 1940s.^[3]

In November 2018, the CUP partnered with New York's Drawing Center to advocate civic engagement through drawing and design.^[4]

Awards and recognition

CUP received the 2011 Rockefeller CIF award to develop its Public Access Design project. The project aimed to connect graphic designers and distressed communities.^[5]

The Smithsonian magazine lauded the center in 2016 for producing educational kits that clarify the intricacies of New York's zoning and systems. CUP received the Smithsonian's National Design Award that year.^[6]

In 2017, CUP founder Damon Rich was honored with a $625,000 MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant, to be used at his discretion over a period of five years. ^[7]

Bibliography

• Francisca Benítez, "La Ciudad Como Escuela", ARQ, December 2006, p. 28.
• Carly Berwick, "Civic Boosters", Metropolis, February 2002.
• Bill Menking, (2009). "The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)". Architectural Design : A.D. 79 (1): 76.
• Lize Mogel, and Alexis Bhagat. (2008). An atlas of radical cartography. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press.
• Book: Perini, Julie. Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. AK Press. 9781849350167. Team Colors Collective. Art as Intervention: A Guide to Today's Radical Art Practices. 2010.
• Rich, Damon, “Notes on Pedagogy as Aesthetic Practice” in Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, edited by Nato Thompson. New York: Independent Curators International and Melville House, 2008.
• Architecture for Humanity (Organization). (2006). Design like you give a damn: architectural responses to humanitarian crises. New York, NY: Metropolis Books.
• Rich, Damon, "Big Plans & Little People," Lotus International 124, Milan, Italy, July 2005.
• Zacks, Stephen. (2011). "Détournement or the Misguided Oppositional Ideology of the Posturban College-Educated Elite". Tarp Architectural Manual. : Spring 2011:14.
• "On Education, Pluralist Planning, New Institutions and Language: Public Interview with Damon Rich"
• Rice, Michael, "An Architektur", September 2008.

External links

• Official website
• World Cat listings

Notes and References

1. Web site: Spatial Agency: Center for Urban Pedagogy . www.spatialagency.net . 28 May 2023.
2. Web site:
   1. Law /// Center for Urban Pedagogy
   . The Funambulist. 3 October 2012. 15 August 2019.
3. Web site: City Without a Ghetto, Center for Urban Pedagogy. BOMB. 1 April 2004. Carlos Brillembourg. 15 August 2019.
4. News: The Drawing Center and the Center for Urban Pedagogy explore social justice with drawing. The Architect's Newspaper. 14 November 2018. Sydney Franklin. 15 August 2019.
5. Web site: February 6, 2012: Announcement: CIF Audio Postcard Series: EmcArts launches Rockefeller Foundation funded project sharing stories from 2011 Cultural Innovation Fund grantees featuring the Hemispheric Institute . Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics . 28 May 2023.
6. News: Matchar . Emily . These Kits Beautifully Explain How City Sewers and Zoning Laws Work . 28 May 2023 . Smithsonian Magazine.
7. News: Rollings . Jackson . Damon Rich and Kate Orff receive 2017 MacArthur "genius" grants . 28 May 2023 . The Architect’s Newspaper . 11 October 2017.