Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization based in Brooklyn, NY, that works with communities about places and how they change. The organization produces exhibitions, public programs and design educational tools through which art/design professionals, community-based advocates/researches and policy-makers get together.
"This fall, CUP projects will be exhibited in two pavilions at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. In the US Pavilion, organized by Bill Menking, CUP is one of 16 organizations and firms representing the country. Projects like the Subsidized Landscape and Dinely Taveras's short video "Representing Public Housing" question popular beliefs about housing and subsidy. For the Padiglione Italia, Damon Rich and Althea Wasow have installed a series of giant photocopies about abandoned buildings, the urban environment, and bad neighborhoods called "Sneakers --> Fashion --> Money --> Respect."
11th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
September 14 – November 23, 2008
Venice, Italy
Related links:
"Out There: Architecture Beyond Building" at the Padiglione Italia
"In the Open: Positioning Practice" at the U.S. Pavilion
