In urban landscape, we are increasingly encountering the phenomenon of forgotten places, open areas without function, which were created by sanitation of unpromising objects or influence of various other external factors. We mostly talk about so-called mid-blocks and inner pavilion places which are open free spaces between two elements of a building, or empty areas between two or more separate objects without mutual connection. Thus, undeveloped places in the already standing continuous development which are intended to be reconstructed. This would be the most suitable solution from the point of view of a certain urban concept of the city because the original development would be supplemented and a meaningful urban structure would be created again. However, over time, it is not always easy and possible to redevelop all these places. In this case, it is necessary to think of a new function that would partially replace the original one. As part of green infrastructure and urban planning, municipalities often integrate various green solutions into these places which encourage their residents and users to spend their free time meaningfully in them. In the long run, these solutions are probably the best possible alternative to the above-mentioned supplementation of urban structures. However, it does not always have to be an expensive and sophisticated design but sometimes only a small short-term intervention based on a deeper developed idea called “bring back function” will suffice. The paper describes unconventional interventions to the places without function and seeks their connection with users in the context of social interaction.

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Every ecosystem on Earth is affected by people as well as has an impact on them. The connection between nature and culture, human knowledge and wisdom of Nature, between us and our environment, is in fact very strong, although sometimes underestimated. It can be promoted by a different way of designing architecture and urban plans – these all should change the quality of our decisions and consequently, once we are acquainted with better options or choices to select, also the quality of our lives will be raised. The Fourth Nature concept is being researched with the goal to identify strategies that create straight connections between culture and Nature, in order to provide humanity with better conditions for living in cities. We are urban beings, living with a current prognosis of being a part of a bigger number of urban dwellers each day. Many different ways the Fourth Nature can be practiced, seen and experienced by in several scales and forms could change our living conglomerates. As valuable places in cities, due to their insertion in the urban tissue and also as coexistence and knowledge development areas, university campuses are here taken to examine this aimed optimal relation between Nature and culture. University campuses have been for centuries an important part of human culture. Creating their own ecosystems, campuses impact on the functioning, sustainability and in the overall also on the appearance of the city, through a blue-green infrastructure implementation and its connections. Within the urban structures, they fulfil their role more significantly and provide important spatial, social, economic, visual and health functions. The area, which is often labelled as public or semi-public space, is thus a part of the blue-green infrastructure and its quality affects also the quality of the surrounding environment. The Fourth Nature is seen as a tool or as a turning point in the current environmental crisis and the university campuses are considered to be the modifiers of the quality of their surrounding environment. The intercrossed analysis of their properties in the current context may bring new ideas and application parameters for the design of the contemporary urban landscape.

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