Urbanism is among the professions in which public and community awareness is of great importance. All its segments, including urban design, therefore strongly rely on the participation of the local community. This stance implies that participation and community-led design are the core of higher education in urban design; hence, the curriculum in urban studies usually has several courses with this topic on their agenda. Nevertheless, they usually consider the participation process in the first phase of urban design, where students collect data from citizens, local experts or stakeholders through surveys, interviews and questionnaires. Making an on-site urban design workcamp with the local community in an open public space is rarely implemented, as it is simply more demanding for organisation and resources. This research presents this specific form of student workcamp in the local community. It is done as the activity of the DANUrB+ INTERREG Project in Golubac, Serbia, in June 2022. The idea behind the workcamp was to raise awareness among both students and the local community in Golubac about the importance of open public space and its urban design through a small-scale ‘design and build’ urban project. However, the final objective of conducting the workcamp was even more significant—to train both groups in the elements of urban participation through the design process, such as mutual understanding, democratic awareness, increased independence, self-reliance and compromise negotiation. The aim of this research is to show how the whole process was planned and implemented.