Course General Description

Each academic year students will work with faculty and partner organizations to research and design a solution to a societal problem. In the academic year 2017-2018 students worked on issues as varied as refugee integration through sports, fashion consumption and our relationships to our garments, alternative monetary systems through Blockchain, edible and compostable food packaging solutions and Basic Universal Income. Examples of student projects previously incubated at MakeSense include services to the homeless, products that protect from air pollution or programs that encourage physical activity in senior citizens to decrease the risk of injury and associated health costs. In the first semester students will work with a social entrepreneur in an on-going effort to apply the skills they learn, and in the second semester, they will develop their own individual project that can be submitted for funding to different competitions and agencies.

School General Description

Paris College of Art (PCA) is an international college of art and design with U.S degree-granting authority and accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) located in Paris, France.[1] PCA's mission is to provide the highest standard of art and design education, taught within an American pedagogical paradigm, while being influenced and informed by their French and European environment.