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CitiesThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015) and the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the UNESCO report "Reimagining our futures together" are complexjust ecosystemssome of the more prominent documents that place education at the centre of ongoing social change and habitatsseek forto moreovercome thana halfgrowing number of world’s population. The aim of this work is to present how studentssocial and professorseconomic fromproblems twoin facultiesour withinworld. This paper presents the Universityidea of Zagreb work together to investigateand case studies of urbanschools parksand local engagement as placesa possible contribution of education to the various challenges of sustainability today (Kos, Tašner, Gaber 2019). The changes in educational policy and practise that are focused on the local level affect schools at the level of curricula and didactic approaches, at the level of expanded school programmes and broader community engagement. A questionnaire was sent to the principals of thirty elementary school from different regions and in different urban, semi-urban and rural areas to capture existing community engagement practises. Based on the data collected, three schools were selected as pilot schools with the aim of developing school–community collaboration. (Kos, Gaber, Tašner 2021). The selected cases show that liberal conceptualizations of community, collaboration and commons form hybrid hierarchies and classifications and reconfigure the personal and collective experiences of teaching and learning along different axes. This opens up possibilities for allalternative living beings. The research projects developed by the students combine knowledge and methods from both the Facultyways of Scienceaddressing (Department of Biology) and the Faculty of Architecture (Department of Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Landscape Architecture). Students select a site where they develop a project proposal as part of their intervention theme to improve life in the neighbouring communities, considering the impact on biodiversity, activities, landscaping, and public space quality. The work compares the urban design approachone of the architecturemost studentspressing questions of our time: how we can live together in a world of plurality and difference and in a sustainable relationship with our natural environment. It is safe to say that the biodiversity approachidea of the biologycommons studentswill usingcontinue theto case studies of Park Mladenaca, Park Kajzerica and Dugave Parkevolve in New(trans)formal Zagreb.educational Thesepractise.
case studies were a part of series of parallel workshop and seminar assignments during three academic years from 2021 to 2024. The results show that a multidisciplinary approach is an important step in understanding and planning sustainable urban transformations in open public spaces. The educative experience of cooperation between the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Architecture is a successful example of education framework within sustainable development goals. As such, it is also an invitation to a broader discourse on exploring students’ assignments from different perspectives, in the hope that the multidisciplinary approach will become inter- and transdisciplinary in the future.
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