YUMP is a collective public scholarship initiative focused on the built environment, city planning, and urban change over time.
Our goal is to connect Yale students, staff, and faculty with local organizations to create research-based interpretive materials; with Artspace, Armory Community Advisory Committee, the International Festival of Arts & Idea, and others.
YUMP creates public, interactive events to share student projects about New Haven and other places.
We publish faculty and student projects in print (newspapers, pamphlets, posters) and on the website (sound, photo, video, drawings) and have installed full-sized public art interventions.
We support faculty-led research projects like “Interactive Crown Street” that occupied unused storefronts with participatory exhibits about the city.
Recent initiatives include the New Haven Building Newsprint, an unsolicited print intervention about local building phenomena, like the “5-over-1” apartment buildings that are popping up across the city and “The Frankenstein,” houses that became shop-fronts and changed over time.
Please reach out to collaborate at yump@yale.edu
Director: Elihu Rubin
Website tip: Use menu item “Filters” to search by media, topic, and collaborator. Toggle between ”List” (chronological) and ”Shapes” (always randomized).
