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March 10, 2008
Center for Uban Pedagogy Launches Making Policy Public
CUP launches Making Policy Public
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1. MPP launch party, NY
2. MPP call for proposals
3. MPP for sale
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1. MPP launch party, NY
Please join us this Thursday at Printed Matter to celebrate the launch of Making Policy Public, CUP's new series of collaborative publications.
Making Policy Public launch party
Thursday, March 13, 5 – 7 pm
Printed Matter Inc.
195 10th Avenue
New York, NY
C/E to 23rd Street
What do you get when you put together policy wonks and cutting-edge visual thinkers? Find out on March 13 as CUP celebrates the publication of The Cargo Chain and Social Security Risk Machine. These are the first two issues of Making Policy Public, CUP’s new series of fold-out posters that uses innovative graphic design to explore and explain public policy. Each poster is the product of a commissioned collaboration between a designer and an advocate. The series aims to make information on public policy truly public: accessible, meaningful, and shared. We hope you join us in Chelsea for a night of cross-disciplinary celebration.
The Cargo Chain is an organizing tool for longshore workers that shows the players and pressure points in today’s globalized shipping network. How do commodities get from factory to shopping mall? Who really has the power to move today’s global economy? This fold-out poster was produced through a collaboration between the Longshore Workers Coalition, Labor Notes (a quarterly journal of labor journalism and research), cartographer Bill Rankin, and the graphic design office Thumb.
Social Security Risk Machine explains the mechanics of this "social machine": how it works, why it was created, where the money comes from and where it goes. Most importantly, the publication shows the many adjustments that can be made to keep the machine running. This publication was written by Sam Stark and designed by David Reinfurt and CUP’s Damon Rich.
CUP provides Making Policy Public collaborators with a stipend, manages the project, and provides additional support. Partnering organizations receive half of the print run to use in their education and advocacy work.
Making Policy Public is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Diane Middleton Foundation, and the Brooklyn Arts Council.
2. MPP call for proposals
CUP is currently accepting proposals for the next issues of Making Policy Public. We are looking for advocates, writers, and researchers with complex policy issues that need visual explanation. Advocates chosen through the juried submission process will receive 1000 copies of the color publication to distribute directly to their constituents and an honorarium of $1000. To dowload the application, click here
http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org/resources/call%20for%20proposals.pdf
3. MPP for sale
We are also happy to announce that the first two issues of Making Policy Public are available for purchase through our website. Bring the wonders of Social Security or the international shipping network home today! Click on "Project Description" and scroll down to purchase.
http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org/projects/detail/54
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Posted by lois at March 10, 2008 07:29 PM