Oana Paval is an architect and a teaching assistant at the University of Architecture and Urbanism „Ion Mincu” of Bucharest. She has a PhD in architecture (2019) – her research focused on abandoned industrial sites in Romania and tried to establish 4 sets of criteria in order to evaluate their capacity to be re-used. She is currently involved in participatory planning processes for abandoned industrial areas in Sibiu. She is also a member of the URBOTECA team (2014) where she produces URBOTECA Podcast and a member of De-a Arhitectura (2013) where she participated in many of their educational programmes, including workshops with teenagers, and is part of the Urban UP Programme team, where she recently coordinated TU_act – Teens Urban Acupuncture project (2022). She is also a co-author of the educational programmes De-a Arhitectura in My Room and Safety for School Children. She believes that through education we can have better, healthier cities and more resilient communities.