PROGRAMS
Throughout the 15-month STUDY.PLAY.ACT program, SCCI peers exchange experiences and knowledge, collectively unpack urban processes, workshop issues, and nurture relationships with other committed folk. Their journey through the STUDY.PLAY.ACT program will culminate in projects in communities across the city that build upon peers’ existing work and practices.
Each member of the cohort receives a stipend of $10,000. The entire group of peers also receives additional financial and operational support to implement and disseminate projects during the ACT phase. With narrative organizing and grassroots histories as core elements, group projects are based on the peers’ interests and experiences, and developed in collaboration with SCCI's network.
STUDY
We explore, grapple, delve, and build collective knowledge that challenges and reframes how we understand and act upon the city. The program’s three thematic pillars—urban contradictions, political ecologies, and storytelling—guide this phase.
PLAY
We co-envision and strategize collective undertakings that inspire, mobilize, and connect communities. Projects imagined and developed in this phase engage with important challenges in New York City and build on the existing work of peers.
ACT
We implement, amplify, and disseminate the strategies co-designed and discussed during the previous two phases, with support from our network of institutional partners and allied organizations. The goal of this last phase is to boldly convey to the public that other shapes of the city are possible, bring forward ideas that disrupt business as usual, open new narrative spaces, and create diverse pathways to political mobilization.
