Shaping Our City Together: Projects from the Center for Urban Pedagogy looks at how students, communities, artists, and designers play a vital role in strengthening civic engagement across New York City’s diverse neighborhoods.
When information is hard to access, so is the power to act. How do students, families, and communities make sense of the policies and decisions that affect their daily lives? Where does information gathering and research begin? The projects on view here reflect the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s (CUP) work to increase access to education about our city: they collaborate with local high schools and community organizations to identify the issues that matter to them most and then, together with artists, create visual, accessible tools that inform and empower action and influence. At CUP’s core is the goal of ensuring that those who are too often excluded from decision-making can participate fully in shaping their city together.
The Center for Urban Pedagogy is a Brooklyn-based organization that uses the power of art and design to increase meaningful civic engagement, in partnership with marginalized communities. We collaborate with community organizers and advocates, teachers and high school students, visual designers, and artists to make information about public policies accessible to the communities they most directly impact.
This exhibition is part of the Department of Learning and Engagement’s ongoing commitment to connect art, education, and civic life—shining a light on the vibrant communities of New York City and the local organizations that uplift and support them.
Organized by Eddy Almonte, Associate Educator, Civic Engagement, and Leonardo Bravo, Director of Public Engagement, Department of Learning and Engagement, MoMA, in collaboration with Pilar Finuccio, Executive Director, Center for Urban Pedagogy.