Community Engagement in Co-designing Design Education: insights from the "School Day" initiatives and the shifting curatorship role of institutions in educational transformation.

Technological advances, fluctuating political dynamics, the unpredictability of global crises and, more recently, other contemporary overwhelming paradigms such as climate change, wars, and economic instability, have forced educators worldwide to rethink their teaching and have required students to adapt to novel ways of learning and things to learn. Institutions-wise, this shift has pushed an ongoing process of questioning the overall instructional framework in which higher education has traditionally existed. We argue that these recent experiences and challenges have been critical triggers for education stakeholders to move from contextual traditions to a period of dynamism, where reflection on undertaken actions may lead to an overall innovation of teaching and learning practices, valuing people's involvement, knowledge, competence, ethics, and relationships.