Let's Think
An architect specialised in heritage conservation, working at the intersection of architecture, cultural heritage, and European innovation policy. Based in Amsterdam, currently leading 'Let’s Think', a consultancy focused on antidisciplinary creative experiments rooted in historical research and socio-economic analysis. In Bucharest, co-directs ALA Studio, an architectural office dedicated to restoring historical monuments. Founder of ST, a startup based in her Romanian hometown, using advanced digital technologies - such as 3D modelling and transmedia storytelling - to deliver immersive cultural experiences. Active within the New European Bauhaus [NEB] framework, contributing as Technical Expert, Evaluator, and Design Mentor across multiple NEB initiatives under Horizon Europe, EIT Community NEB, and the Creative Europe. Recent contributions include technical expertise for the Horizon Europe project Eyes Hearts Hands – Urban Revolution - leading a best practices catalogue on regenerative urban solutions, and mentoring NEB-driven creative placemaking projects in Cyprus, Italy, Spain, and Ukraine. Engaged in policy discourse and knowledge dissemination through public speaking, workshops, and participation in high-level forums such as the NEB Festival in Brussels and deMIT Symposium in Matera. Registered with the Romanian Order of Architects and recognised as an Architectural Heritage Specialist by French and Romanian Ministries of Culture. Memberships include Interpret Europe and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. The practice integrates heritage conservation, systemic design, and digital innovation to facilitate inclusive, sustainable spatial futures, aligned with the core NEB values of sustainability, inclusion, and aesthetics.
The practice explores the design of adaptive, agile, and regenerative dynamic systems of co-existence-an approach to spatial practice responding to the environmental crisis through close attention to complexity, identitary specificities, and shared ethical imagination, focused on three thematic pillars:
. Cultural Sustainability: Heritage is us and is here, in the present. It is about SIGNIFICANCE and about MEANINGFUL LIVING SPACES
. Migration / Mobility: We need to educate ourselves to grow a better SENSE OF SPACE in order to facilitate more SENSE OF BELONGING in others.
. Hope-Trust-Care: and we need to invest more in building HOPE in order to make more room for TRUST and, therefore, develop a deeper sense of CARE.
The methodological approach draws from Systemic Design, an integrative practice where design becomes a vessel for navigating complexity, rather than simplifying it. Here, art is the primary language—not as aesthetic gesture, but as a mode of thinking that values precision, presence, and emotional intelligence.
The approach builds critical, transdisciplinary skills—observing, active listening, mapping relationships, and synthesizing knowledge across fields. Historical inquiry serves as a strategic tool to anchor present complexities within long-term contexts. It treats interconnected conditions as relational, encouraging attention to patterns and evolving social, ecological, and spatial dynamics.
This is an exploratory space shaped by and for radical thinkers, systems designers, and curious minds—those comfortable with indeterminacy, drawn to connections, and unafraid to rethink foundational structures.
By prioritizing systemic design and art as critical tools, this methodology repositions environmental and spatial crises as opportunities for creative co-creation and transformative dialogue. It is through this commitment to process that new imaginaries are hoped to emerge, capable of shaping more inclusive, regenerative futures.