amtenbrink.design – Marina Elena Wachs

Collective Intelligence – Panel discussion at Venice Biennale Architettura

amtenbrink.design — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:46:00 +0000

Collective Intelligence – How Diversity in Architecture Shapes the Future<

This titel of the opening panel discussion at Venice, at the beginning of Biennale Architettura 2025, is underlining the DIVIA – Diversity in Architecture – Goal. It was a pleasure to moderate at the Biennale, that takes place under the topic about:

„IntelliGENS – Natural – Artificial – Collective“. It was a brilliant evening with the finalist of DIVIA Award, that discussed their successful architectural ways in the past and the future to come. The panel was opened by Carlo Ratti – Curator of this year Biennale Architettura 2025 at Venice, together with Dr. Ursula Schwitalla, the heart and soul, director and founder of DIVIA.

In May 2025, together with Dr. Julia Röver, Marina-Elena Wachs guided trough the program within the „Corderie dell’Arsenale“. There, you can find fantastic advanced intelligent solutions for architectural concepts until end of Biennale 2025. The panel took place in preparation to DIVIA AWARD 2025 celebration next day at Palazzo Mora, where you can find the exhibition of the finalists until November 2025. The travelling exhibition will go to Vietnam, the location of the women architecture winner: Tran Thi Ngu Ngon. Congratulation!

Gesa Balbig and Marina – reporting together at DGTF conference 2024

amtenbrink.design — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:06:31 +0000

Gesa, Yani and Alberte, thank you so much, for the common paper that was discussed together at DGTF Conference 2024 at Lucern. The topic of the Conference 2024: „Hazarding Design“ was the backround for our presentation, elaborated together by 4 experts of design engineers with focus on texile designing with AI:

Gesa Balbig as freelance and design lead at BYBORRE, NL, Yani Chuang as freelance and working as knittwear expert at Tilburg Museum, NL and Alberte Holmø-Bojesen as Textile Designer from DK, all three exposed and discussed together with Marina-Elena Wachs their experiences in co-designing with AI: The report was given at Lucern School of Design at 27 at April 2025 with the title: „How can we shape the impact of design practices and education in the context of human AI collaboration, considering issues of control and risk?“

Thank you Gesa presenting together with Marina! We would like to call for greater funding for this important cross cultural and cross generational desgin engineering research, that would have been given all the young experts, the financial support to come to the place of conferece, this year Lucern School of Design at Switzerland.

and see you next at Birmingham EPDE Conference 2024 in September!, for the next dicussion about the benefit by cross cultural and cross medial designing in the future – Rise the machines and the human factor that makes the difference;)

Research paper together for Europe

amtenbrink.design — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:59:48 +0000

Research paper together for Europe

The mentoring program by Marina-Elena Wachs is dedicated to new talents of Bachelor and Master programs and for alumni of divers study programs – since 2021 by the Programme of European Mentoring

See a selection of Mentees success and cooperations in the case of communication sustainable research together at European congresses:

2023 EPDE Congress: THEME Engineering and Product Design Education Conference

>Responsible innovation for global co-habitation.<

A common submission with Bachelor Student Charlotte Weber at EPDE congress 2023 at ELISAVA Barcelona, about:
‚CROSS CULTURAL CO-DESIGNING FOR INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABLE (TEXTILE) DESIGN SOLUTIONS – QUESTIONING SDG’S 4 & 17

Togehter we are demonstrating how helpful co-designing could be, to avoid cultural appropriation; it is about our responsibility and question for SDG No4 – Educating people about design ownership and sustainable cultural behaviour…

EPDE Conference 2022 – Londong – Theme DIRT –
– Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate, Transform –

Together with Giulia D’Aleo, Politecnico di Milano, master student of study program Digital and Interaction Design; – invited for common paper by Marina-Elena Wachs and with Theresa Scholl, 2022.

see more at research gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363166434_A_PAN-EUROPEAN_TRANSFORMATION_TO_BRIDGE_THE_GAP_BETWEEN_TANGIBLE_EXPERIENCE_AND_VIRTUAL_IDEATING_SPACES

Action(s) for European Mentoring

amtenbrink.design — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:56:41 +0000

Action(s) for European Mentoring

See a selection of mentees success and togehter with mentor in exhibitions / events / panel discussions:

2024 … more to come…

2022: ‘DESIGN GOALS – the DeSIGNerinnen statements for textile sustainability’
at tim – Textil Industrie Museum – at Augsburg, Germany

-opening at 6 of May 2022 – maker spaces at 7/8 of May 2022, the finissage at 24th of September 2022.

see the exposé of the designer:

Exposé_Design Goals

Melissa Grustat: Master-Thesis, 2021
DNAir

Franziska Poddig, Master-Thesis, 2021

The (im)perfection of chance as design potential

Katharina Grobheiser, Master-Thesis, 2021

Elise Esser, Master-Thesis 2020, Organic Shades
German ‘Materialpreis von Raumprobe 2020’, Stuttgart 2022

Theresa Scholl, Thesis: „textile sense of Light”, 2018

Gesa Balbig, 2021 togehter with Wachs, Scholl, Grobheiser: at EEE Conference 2021 in Dresden to the topic: “Textile Engineering of the future”

Mentoring of talents around Europe – PEM

amtenbrink.design — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:54:55 +0000

Mentoring of talents around Europe – PEM:

The mentoring program by Marina-Elena Wachs is dedicated to new talents of Bachelor and Master programs and for alumni of divers study programs – since 2021 by the Programme of European Mentoring

This can be proven by several awarded projects of mentees and and by twice the price: ‘Lehrpreis für Innovation in der Lehre und Betreuung von Studierenden’, 2013 and 2017 for Marina-Elena Wachs. Wachs was nominated for professor of the year 2021 by Unicum.

The progmme means:

‘Motivation to act’ and ‘Self-Management’ these are core elements of the the Programme of European Mentoring (PEM) in the years to come. ‘Designing’ the resource of human capital with the help of cultural education and Knowledge Management…

…more: Book ‘Design Engineering – sustainable and holistic’ by Marina-Elena Wachs, 2022, Avedition:

ISBN 978-3-89986-362-8

View into:

https://issuu.com/avedition_stuttgart/docs/2022_design_engineering_issuu

Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel?

amtenbrink.design — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:22:23 +0000

Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel? / Writing A PhD in Design – a cakewalk?

„Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel / Writing a PhD in Design – a cakewalk?“ in Kooperation mit Prof. D. Weinlich, 2011, Blumhardt Verlag, Hannover

amtenbrink.design – Marina Elena Wachs

Collective Intelligence – Panel discussion at Venice Biennale Architettura

Gesa Balbig and Marina – reporting together at DGTF conference 2024

Research paper together for Europe

Research paper together for Europe

The mentoring program by Marina-Elena Wachs is dedicated to new talents of Bachelor and Master programs and for alumni of divers study programs – since 2021 by the Programme of European Mentoring

EPDE Conference 2022 – Londong – Theme DIRT –
– Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate, Transform –

Action(s) for European Mentoring

Action(s) for European Mentoring

See a selection of mentees success and togehter with mentor in exhibitions / events / panel discussions:

2024 … more to come…

Mentoring of talents around Europe – PEM

Mentoring of talents around Europe – PEM:

The mentoring program by Marina-Elena Wachs is dedicated to new talents of Bachelor and Master programs and for alumni of divers study programs – since 2021 by the Programme of European Mentoring

The progmme means:

‘Motivation to act’ and ‘Self-Management’ these are core elements of the the Programme of European Mentoring (PEM) in the years to come. ‘Designing’ the resource of human capital with the help of cultural education and Knowledge Management…

Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel?

Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel? / Writing A PhD in Design – a cakewalk?

„Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel / Writing a PhD in Design – a cakewalk?“ in Kooperation mit Prof. D. Weinlich, 2011, Blumhardt Verlag, Hannover

ISBN 978-3-932011-84-9

Publikation auf Amazon

Summary (englisch) as PDF

amtenbrink.design – Marina Elena Wachs

Collective Intelligence – Panel discussion at Venice Biennale Architettura

Gesa Balbig and Marina – reporting together at DGTF conference 2024

Research paper together for Europe

Research paper together for Europe

The mentoring program by Marina-Elena Wachs is dedicated to new talents of Bachelor and Master programs and for alumni of divers study programs – since 2021 by the Programme of European Mentoring

EPDE Conference 2022 – Londong – Theme DIRT – – Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate, Transform –

Action(s) for European Mentoring

Action(s) for European Mentoring

See a selection of mentees success and togehter with mentor in exhibitions / events / panel discussions:

2024 … more to come…

Mentoring of talents around Europe – PEM

Mentoring of talents around Europe – PEM:

The mentoring program by Marina-Elena Wachs is dedicated to new talents of Bachelor and Master programs and for alumni of divers study programs – since 2021 by the Programme of European Mentoring

The progmme means:

‘Motivation to act’ and ‘Self-Management’ these are core elements of the the Programme of European Mentoring (PEM) in the years to come. ‘Designing’ the resource of human capital with the help of cultural education and Knowledge Management…

Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel?

Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel? / Writing A PhD in Design – a cakewalk?

„Promovieren im Design – ein Kinderspiel / Writing a PhD in Design – a cakewalk?“ in Kooperation mit Prof. D. Weinlich, 2011, Blumhardt Verlag, Hannover

ISBN 978-3-932011-84-9

Publikation auf Amazon

Summary (englisch) as PDF

EPDE Conference 2022 – Londong – Theme DIRT –
– Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate, Transform –