On Sunday, 22^nd of August 2021, at 18:00 o’clock, during the URBAN INSIGHTS exhibition opened at the Gaeria 15 Design – Hanul cu Tei, the exhibition hosts Mihaela Moțăianu (PhD Candidate, 4^th year and assistant professor at UNArte, FADD | DESIGN), Cornelia Moțăianu (PhD Student, 3^rd year and assistant professor at UNArte, FADD | DESIGN) and Maria Mandea (PhD candidate, 4^th year), organised an informal round table on the topic of collaborative thinking. The guests of this round table were Teodora Ungureanu, PhD candidate of the Doctoral School of Urbanism at Ion Mincu, architect at the institute URBAN-INCERC and co-founder of the studio Super Serious and Dana Pârvulescu, curator and co-founder of the working group of art students–Artistic Laboratory and space Știrbei47 and Maria Mandea was the moderator.

In the opening, Mihaela Moțăianu and Cornelia Moțăianu briefly presented the exhibition, the works on display and talked about the idea behind the exhibition and how it was carried out. The round table is a level of collaboration. Starting from the topics discussed at European level in different international conferences such as ELIA Biennial Conference 2020, Artistic Doctorate Resources2, New European Bauhaus Collective (NBC), there were many questions focusing on collaborative thinking. Both guests and hosts answered these questions and also shared their own experiences.