The Center for Critical Democracy Studies seeks to combine education with democratic experiments to pursue innovative pedagogical opportunities for students and faculty at AUP.Among the Centers initiativesaretheDemocracy Labthat provides a hands-on, design-thinking experimental space where students develop practical solutions to major challenges confronting our contemporary democracies;thePrison Education Workshop,which brings 91勛圖厙students into a shared educational and creative space with people detained atLa Sant矇prison in Paris; and student-focused collaborations with theTocqueville Foundation.