People who participated in Big up, Jamaica!

Renee Johnson lives in the Borough of Queens. She is self-employed. She takes care of children, which she has been doing for about nineteen years. ...

Renee Johnson lives in the Borough of Queens. She is self-employed. She takes care of children, which she has been doing for about nineteen years. Her interests include jazz, poetry, dancing, and hiking.

Renee Johnson has worked on Big up, Jamaica!

Lize Mogel is an artist who makes maps, distributing and inserting her projects into urban public space. She has produced site-specific cartographi…

Lize Mogel is an artist who makes maps, distributing and inserting her projects into urban public space. She has produced site-specific cartographic projects for transit shelters in Los Angeles and for former World’s Fair sites in North America. Lize has also worked with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles.
As a fundraiser, she was Grants Officer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from 2002-2004, where she was responsible for foundation and government giving. She works as a grants consultant for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT and Good Old Lower East Side, among others.
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Lize Mogel has worked on Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Knoxville: Building Communities

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is an artist and designer. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political …

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is an artist and designer. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political economy of the built environment. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Storefront for Art and Architecture and SculptureCenter (New York City), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Liepzig), and 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 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. http://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

Lenny Rodway has worked on Big up, Jamaica!

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