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CUP was founded in 1997 by 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).
During the fall of 2003, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, CUP
organized the exhibition City Without a Ghetto on the theme of low-income
housing development in New York City since the late 1940s.
In 2011, CUP received a Rockefeller CIF grant to develop its Public Access
Design project. This project aimed to connect graphic designers with struggling
communities. In November 2018, CUP partnered with the Drawing Center of New York
to advocate for civic engagement through drawing and design. Design that
breathes life into important regulations, smartsign Center for Urban Pedagogy,
Freedom and Incarceration, New York, NY TOC of MONU #23 ‘Participatory Urbanism’