The Center for Critical Democracy Studies seeks to combine education with democratic experiments to pursue innovative pedagogical opportunities for students and faculty at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½. Among the Center’s initiatives are the “Democracy Labâ€Â  that provides a hands-on, design-thinking experimental space where students develop practical solutions to major challenges confronting our contemporary democracies; the Prison Education Workshop, which brings ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ students into a shared educational and creative space with people detained at La Santé prison in Paris; and student-focused collaborations with the Tocqueville Foundation.