CUP at Storefront
Categories: Environmental Art Activism Archive
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) presented the Envisioning Development Toolkit at Storefront [PERFORMANCE P], a workshop aimed at demystifying the term “affordable housing” that uses an interactive felt poster to help people understand how the city and federal governments define “affordable,” what the income spread is like for different neighborhoods, and who can afford to move into those neighborhoods now. As an agency, CUP makes educational projects about places and how they change, bringing together art and design professionals and community-based advocates and researchers.
The xClinic prescribes this and other CUP workshops for structuring community engagement in the complex processes involved in development.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
An important and relevant workshop in a rapidly gentrifying city. The performance piece’s timeliness in conjunction with the disastrous Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn is especially eye-opening, when the majority of the affected neighborhood’s residents who support the development are minorities because of the “affordable housing” and employment opportunity guise.