An Atlas in Zurich
01/15/10
Posters from CUP’s Garbage Problems project are on display at An Atlas of Radical Cartography, an exhibit curated by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. The show is currently stationed in Zurich. Drop in if you’re in the area.
Whitespace Gallery
Militarstrasse 76, Zurich
January 15 to February 9, 2010
http://www.whitespace.ch/
Opening reception:
Friday, January 15th, 7pm
Who Makes the Rent?
01/12/10
Rent – it’s something most of us deal with every month. But where are those numbers really coming from? It turns out that about a third of the City’s rent increases are decided by a nine-headed beast that presides over some of the rowdiest public hearings in all of NYC. To hear the full tale, come to the debut presentation of the Rent Guidelines Board storybook, the product of CUP’s latest Urban Investigation.
This semester, CUP Teaching Artist Marisa Jahn and eleven teens from the College Now program at Brooklyn College investigated how rent levels are set for the one million rent-regulated apartments in New York City. They interviewed lobbyists, tenant advocates, and members of the Rent Guidelines Board, and created a storybook to be used by Tenants and Neighbors in their workshops. Join us next Tuesday to meet the creative team, draw your very own Rent Guidelines Board beasts, and get the inside scoop on future rent legislation.
Seating is limited! RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org
Tuesday, January 12, 7 pm
New York Immigration Coalition
137 West 25th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY
CUP on City Room
01/08/10
The New York Times City Room checks out CUP’s Affordable Housing Toolkit!
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/affordable-housing/
Bodega Down Bronx on Places
01/04/10
In the Bronx, bodegas are a way of life. You can get everything from snacks to supper. Who decides what they sell? Why is their stuff so cheap? Why should we care?
In CUP’s documentary Bodega Down Bronx, teaching artist Jonathan Bogarín and a group of students from the South Bronx explore the ins and outs of bodegas – from global supply to local demand – to reveal how a web of subsidies shapes their neighborhood’s health from hundreds of miles away.
The video will be available from CUP later in January, but through a new partnership between CUP and Places, you can watch the full video online during an exclusive two-week engagement. Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. Look for future CUP/Places collaborations in 2010!
Love the video so much you need your own copy? Pre-order one online here.
2010 NYSCA Independent Project Grants Available
01/03/10
The New York State Council on the Arts awards grants of up to $10,000 to support independent projects by architects, landscape architects, planners, designers, historic preservationists, and scholars. Applicants may only submit a project through a nonprofit sponsoring organization. As part of our mission to encourage critical examination of and intervention in the designed environment, CUP is happy to serve as a nonprofit fiscal sponsor. If you are interested in submitting a project proposal through CUP, please email us at info (at) anothercupdevelopment (dot) org for an application form.
NYSCA’s application deadline is earlier than usual this year, on January 22nd. Applications to CUP are due Friday, January 15th. (Additional application material will be due April 12th, 2010.) Please be aware that CUP’s fiscal year is January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011, so your project would have to happen within that time frame. For more information from NYSCA, visit:
http://nysca.org/public/guidelines/architecture/independent_projects.htm