The pupils of the window design technician programme, under the supervision of their professor Ksenja Sajovic, this year decorated three spaces. The response by the members of parliament and visitors is very positive.

"A modern school must most certainly be active also outside the routine frameworks of the teaching curriculum, and classrooms; that is of even greater importance for vocational modules. Pupils have to face an actual problem, a task commissioned by somebody outside the school. Of course they need a lot of help in the beginning, but they have to face all the phases from banal problems, i.e. how to pack the objects for transport, to the final visual accents," Sajovic explains.Decorations are made of all kinds of materials, from wood to polystyrene, and give insight into trends of festive decoration, at the same time giving additional motivation to pupils – that being the constant challenge for their mentors.

Last year they only decorated the »parliamentary« Christmas tree, while this year they were entrusted a larger project – the decorations for three very prominent locations of the building. "While the last year's arrangement offered clear messages, this year's, divided into three spaces, is more universal and spreads from non-pretentious, simple decoration to demanding abstract language of purified artistic elements, with emphasize on mutual contrast, and duplication of the leading element; a kind of symbolic reflection of the situation in the country, or in the society in general," Sajovic replies to the question regarding the design of this year's arrangement.

The department of window design technicians of the Secondary Commercial School has a long-standing practice of cooperating with »consumers from the outside«. Sajovic is very satisfied with such challenges, as pupils are much better motivated when their work is presented in public, and not made only for the purpose of school grades.

K. I., Translated by G. K.