Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story
Alternative Urban Perspectives
Building Codes, Coding Communities
Governors Island Points of Interest
Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies
However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism
Knoxville: Building Communities
PHTV: What's up with public housing?
Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!
The Center for Critical Skills
The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People
The Internet is Serious Business
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Damon RichFounderDamon Rich, CUP’s founder, is an artist and designer. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political … More...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 Less... |
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Amber YaredCanadianAmber is a determined young lass juggling multiple projects and ambitions. She is currently based in Ottawa, Canada and is Public Programs Coordina… More...Amber is a determined young lass juggling multiple projects and ambitions. She is currently based in Ottawa, Canada and is Public Programs Coordinator for the Ottawa Art Gallery. Her activities as an artist and educator include: award-winning butter sculpture, illustrations published with Delerium Press, assistance with the St.Petersburg Summer Literary Seminar, teaching art at MIND Alternative High School, and collaboration with other visual and performing artists for interdisciplinary integrated arts programming at Bloorview Kids Rehab. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and a BEd from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Amber Yared has worked on What's Poppin at Fulton Mall? Less... |