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Sustainability teaching and learning is about understanding and making decisions that support outcomes to achieve the triple bottom line: environmental, economic and social. To ensure sustainability outcomes, scholars have called for curricular innovation to support interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary learning to embed sustainability learning for students. This entry presents a cross-cultural immersive experience for teaching and learning sustainability outcomes from environmental, economic and social dimensions for Australian and Indonesian students. The combined classroom with students from Australia and Indonesia was set up. Prior discussions with teaching staff from the two universities and engagement with the villagers in Indonesia set up the scope of the teaching and learning experiences for both cohorts of students. Australian students funded through the New Colombo Plan from various disciplinary programs interacted with architecture and design students from an Indonesian university in Indonesia over a two-week period. The students worked collaboratively to undertake a needs analysis and develop designs for a multifunction educational facility for a village in the island of Java, Indonesia. The village community was involved in the participatory process for informing and developing the concept designs, which were then presented to the village community for selection and construction. The students and teachers were strangers to each other before the collaborative classroom experience. Yet, the bonds formed between teachers and students of both cultures went beyond the classroom. The cohorts of Australian students and the Indonesian students continued to engage with each other not just immediately after their experience of working together in the Indonesian classroom, but also beyond their university life. Such experiences during university life not only create a deeper understanding of sustainability from multiple dimensions, but also life-long friendships between students, shaping their post university work and life experiences. Recommendations are provided to support such experiences.
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Iyer-Raniga, U. (2022). Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Engagement for Embedding Sustainability. In: Leal Filho, W., Portela de Vasconcelos, C.R. (eds) Handbook of Best Practices in Sustainable Development at University Level. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04764-0_21
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