« Égalité, visibilité et participation à la culture architecturale pour tous. »
(Dr Ursula Schwitalla – DIVIA, Paris 2026)

Cette citation tirée du programme de DIVIA – Diversity in Architecture – à Paris annonce une brillante exposition du DIVIA AWARD 2025. Venez nous rendre visite au Grand Palais, Paris, E 88, du 25 au 27 février 2026.

Il s’agit d’une exposition itinérante mondiale – après Venise, Stuttgart, maintenant Paris, suivie de Barcelone et du Vietnam…

Nous vous invitons cordialement à notre petit vernissage le 26 février 2026 à 14h30.
Veuillez consulter l’invitation ci-jointe.

Rejoignez DIVIA … avec différentes possibilités :

https://diversityinarchitecture.de/

https://diversityinarchitecture.de/membership/

Contribuez à façonner l’avenir et créez un espace dédié à l’architecture égalitaire, auquel de nombreuses femmes engagées dans le design participent. MERCI BEAUCOUP!

À bientôt à PARIS.

Marina-Elena pour DIVIA
(responsable pour: Recherche & Stratégies Avancées)

DIVIA – Diversity in Architecture e.V.

DIVIA_Invitation_Vernissage_Paris

In special with this spot on Scottlands People and Places at the Outer Hybrids: Weaver Donald John MacKay, Helen Lockhardt and so many more, to hold on textiles and cultural heritage. To save the knowledge archives to create the NEW old resilient power. Thank you Marina-Elena

With „Textile Codes #1“ the first was invented in 2012 by Marina-Elena Wachs at the Hochschule Niederrhein about the topic of „Digital Codes“. Together with Professor and Textil-Designer Marion Ellwanger-Mohr the first accompanied the Symposium „Digital Codes – Textile Codes – analoge und digitale Designstatements am Beispiel der Falte und dem Prinzip der Faltung.“ (11.05.2012, Mg open spaces, Mönchengladbach, Germany).

The second „Textile Codes #2“ was created by Marina, together with Designer and Professor Ellen Bendt to the topic about „Knitted Wool Couture“, parallel to the project „Wool School“ at the Hochschule Niederrhein, in collaboration with „The Prince’s Foundation“ (today the King’s Foundation“) and The Woolmark Company.

The third „Textile Codes#3“ now gives an insigth in the paradigm shift of international design collaborations and -edcuation by COIL -Projects (Collaborative Online International Learning) and designing WITH the user. please finde an insight at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398727393_TEXTILE_CODES_3_-_International_Design_Education_-_Case_Studies_about_Water-Management_and_Sustainable_Design_Solutions

The contribution by Industrial Designer Marina-Elena Wachs with the title: ‚Children Centred Hybrid Design Spaces – Next Resilient Designing Generation /-Lab‘ as publication and report was successfully discussed. EPDE – Enginneering and Product Design Education Conference – 2025 at University of Malta. thank s to the EPDE Conference organisation comitee for the worthful discussions all the year!

more to read: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394984918_CHILDREN_CENTRED_HYBRID_DESIGN_SPACES_-_NEXT_RESILIENT_DESIGNING_GENERATION_-LAB

Auf dem Bild: Karin Schmidt-Friderichs und Marina-Elena Wachs auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024, auf dem Stand des Hermann-Schmidt Verlags.

See the fantastic books by Ulrike Brandi and Marina-Elena Wachs… industrial designer, Ulrike with specialisation to lighting planning and lighting design, Marina with focus on material development, costume design and textiles, design methods, cultural heritage and sustainable management … and more:

Ulrike Brandi:

‚Light – Nature – Architecture: A Guide to Holistic Lighting Design‘, Birkhäuser

more: look inside

Marina-Elena Wachs:

‚Design Engineering – sustainable and holistic‘, Avedition Publishers

more: look inside

to buy: Avedition publishers here

See attached the CV by Marina-Elena Wachs, as Industrial Designer, Master-Tailor and Professor for Design Theory.

CV_Marina-Elena Wachs Engl 02_ 2024

DESIGN ENGINEERING – sustainable and holistic

Ich freue mich sehr, dass meine ‚post doc thesis‘, über das Thema Design Engineering /-Ausbildung, Herausforderungen und Historie der Nordischen Ländern 2022 erschienen ist! … mit tollen Inspirationen von neuen Talenten und internationalen Statements von Desiger:innen, Architekt:innen, Lichtplanerin, Industrial Designer:innen, digital nerds, Musiker:innen und vielen Disziplinen mehr; Kooperationspartner:innen über Generationen und Ländern hinweg in Europa … all in and all together for the shift in cultural and media behavior for sustainable and holistic educated people – not only in Europe. 

Thank you so much to all cooperation partner, family and friends!

and please be aware about the digital version in preparation;) as 2nd edition + chapter in AI co-piloting with Hands on Designing and new talents in design…

See attached products like: Light goes concrete, light goes wood on glass, Berlin, 2009. picture rights to the group light goes!