People who participated in The Programmable City

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijin…

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijing, China, working on urban architecture projects and teaching.

Jason Anderson has worked on Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, The Programmable City, Governors Island Points of Interest, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, Code City

Francisca Benitez (born Chile 1974) is a New York based artist and retired architect. She has been involved with CUP since 2001, when her first vid…

Francisca Benitez (born Chile 1974) is a New York based artist and retired architect. She has been involved with CUP since 2001, when her first video was featured in Building Codes: The Programmable City at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Since then, she has shown her work at Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona in Spain, Exit Art in New York, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago, Chile, and Futura in Prague, to name a few. Francisca studied architecture at the University of Chile, art at the MFA program at Hunter College in New York (currently) and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has collaborated with countless artists, organizations and journals including Quaderns (Spain), ARQ (Chile), the International Center for Urban Ecology (ICUE, Detroit), and the New York Housing Authority. She currently teaches in our program, in NYCHA community centers and sings with the band Nutria.

Francisca Benitez has worked on The Programmable City, Building Codes, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Green Information Center

Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, ...

Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, to self-published projects and collaborations. In addition to running her studio she teaches Advanced Publication Design to seniors in the degree program at Parsons School of Design. During 2002-2004 she served on the Executive Board of the New York AIGA.
Prior to founding a company of her own in the summer of 2005, Stella founded Honest with Cary Murnion and Jon Milott while the three were attending Parsons School of Design. After five years at Honest, she left to work for The New York Times Magazine and then went on to be a Design Director with the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather.
Stella’s work has been featured in Print, Res, How, Step, Black Book, Nylon and Eye, and she was featured in the book “Fresh Dialogue 3,” in addition to being one of the participants in the yearly event of the same name.

Stella Bugbee has worked on Building Codes, Important Housing Rights, The Programmable City, Code City

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Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a f…

Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a founding member of SpaceAgency, Mari is also involved with projects that “make space for knowledge and discussion of architecture in the public realm”.

Mari Fujita has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

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Andrea Meller has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Garbage Problems, Public Housing 101, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape

Oliver Neumann has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is a designer and artist. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the 2008 Venice Biennale, Stor…

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is a designer and artist. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the 2008 Venice Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture and SculptureCenter (New York City), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam). In 1997, he founded the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people understand and change the places they live, where he served as Creative Director for 10 years. Damon has taught design and planning at institutions including the Parsons School of Design, Heritage High School, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Queens Library Adult Learning Center. He writes about architecture and politics for publications including the Village Voice, the Nation, Metropolis, and Architecture magazine. Damon has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts award for his work with adult literacy and architecture, as well as a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony for his work on the history of urban renewal. In 2007, Damon was selected as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Artist-in-Residence at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where he developed a exhibition on architecture, real estate, and finance. He currently serves as the Urban Designer and Waterfront Planner for the City of Newark, New Jersey. www.damon.anothercupdevelopment.org

Damon Rich has worked on Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape, The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, What's Poppin at Fulton Mall?, Code City, Social Security Risk Machine, The Programmable City, Chew On This, Temporary Showroom

Tamara Sussman has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Oscar Tuazon has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour

Daniel Wiley is a Community Coordinator for Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (since 2000) covering issues in the Brooklyn portion of her NY 12t…

Daniel Wiley is a Community Coordinator for Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (since 2000) covering issues in the Brooklyn portion of her NY 12th Congressional District, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard southwest through waterfront communities Vinegar Hill, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Sunset Park. He handles community issues for the Congresswoman and coordinates local planning projects and initiatives. He holds an M.A. degree in Geography from Hunter College, CUNY, and his recent thesis is entitled Planning Brooklyn Bridge Park: The Political Economy of Place (2007). Mr. Wiley has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1988: as an education program coordinator for Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE, 1993-1999) focusing on urban architecture, social studies, neighborhood history, urban planning, and environmental issues, and conducts numerous public walking tours. He has a BFA degree from Cooper Union (1987) and was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1988). His work can be found in If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, 1991 (a Project by Martha Rosler, Edited by Brian Wallis).

Dan Wiley has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Rosten Woo is former Executive Director of CUP. He has been producing public education projects with CUP since 2001. He teaches design history and …

Rosten Woo is former Executive Director of CUP. He has been producing public education projects with CUP since 2001. He teaches design history and theory at Parsons, the New School for Design and produces historical research and writing on history, design and public policy for Place Matters, the Municipal Arts Society, Metropolis Magazine and the Village Voice. He has also worked as a researcher and policy analyst for a variety of non-profit organizations including Common Ground Community and the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. He serves on the board of like-minded non-profits, Place in History and Groundswell Community Mural Project. He received his BA in Government from Cornell University.

Rosten Woo has worked on Entry Sequence, Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Center for Critical Skills, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, Important Housing Rights, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Code City, Knoxville: Building Communities, Mapping the Concourse, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Just In/Justice, The Cargo Chain, Building Codes, Bodega Down Bronx, The Internet is Serious Business