And thanks to Stephanie Freyschlag and Barbara Pfeiler to making it possible, to look into the fantastic Vienna laboratories and to fight together to hold on textile crafts and textile knowledge.

and by the way: a best curated exhibition about the „Helmut Lang Archive“ at MAK Vienna – see the picture attached within the night life of Vienna – was the SALUTE for contribution for fashion and textile heritage – value based passion that drives us, that motivate us for sustainable desirable couture and fashion items. THANK YOU VIENNA!

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

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

– workshop based, analytics with trend research, based on market provided systems but invisionary for futures resilient concepts, with help of swot analysis and interactive team spirit, we are looking with you together for your solution.

– mapping in different levels of perspectives, with different media – hands on to AI based tools – sketching with different materials and diving into spaces of embodied experiences.

– cross medial, cross cultural and with music;) colourful languages, in synergetic and synaesthic path, we are creating together new resilient systems and perhaps products – objects if needed.

– feel invited for the next step of interlinked understanding, to talk with different senses.

best Marina-Elena and team;)

In the year 2023 we came around for discussing the material and crafts technology of ceramics – not only by Ceramic Districts – for the future, at Raumprobe Stuttgart: by the way 18 years old and so young, brilliant and effective in material consultancy like never before.

In the year 2020 Marina-Elena was member of the jury for Material Prize 2020, announced by Raumprobe Stuttgart,…and we made other discussions in using the ‚material boxes‘ by Raumprobe and the Book ‚Design Engineering – sustainable and holistic‘, by Marina-Elena, because we: Raumprobe and Marina are collaborating with Avedition publishers… so many common power in the ‚Business of Materials’… we are material nerds for the Sustainable Development Goals;)

Thank to the fantastic team of Raumprobe, in special at the picture: to Jörg and Joachim – and Hannes within the picture attached. Thank you so much.

See the „re-designing history“ process at the beginning of Marinas own ‚re-design of the DNA of Businesses‘, her own signature in doing and designing resilient within the interdisciplinary fields of Gestaltung – with the sparing partner Knut Amtenbrink by  Amtenbrink Design, Braunschweig.

This process began in the year 2023 and finalised in 2024 – for example with the launch of this new website. Thank you Knut!, always a pleasure in designing, thinking about design – together since so many years;) merci!
In the year 2023 Marina-Elena celebrated more than 3 decades of business – see the ‚thank you with music‘ post – in crafts, industrial designing interdisciplinarily, with the reference in design theory and reflecting educational didactic purpose over the years with European Collegues from Industry and Universities around the world. Grateful for this common interplay for sustainable design solutions, it gave a new impact and inspiration for the next step.

The year was worth for ‚looking back going forward‘ -process and this is refelction in design, like the pictures represents, the assessement and critical path of the own studio … Assessements with other partners from industries, foundation, museums, institutions are a valuable treasure and always a face to face interaction, with different design methods: Design thinking, mapping methods and hands on designing vis à vis of AI-tools are giving us all the possibilities to create and communicate valuable longlasting design content for a resilient world.
Let us design togehter.

Lighting planer and inustrial designer Ulrike Brandi and industrial designer / master -tailor Marina-Elena Wachs are collaborating since the 1990s. Together they are always reflecting, disscussing new, innovative bio synthetics, testing for different resilient applications with different paramenter…not only about lighting possibilities… to talk about innovative design developments in architecture, landscape design and automotive / interior design. Let’s talk about the change: feel invited to contact us; let us dicsuss, how could we integrate more bio-synthetics within architecture in Europe?

(pic: Ulrike and Marina are testing the new bio-synthetic material made by designer Jonline Kaumanns, pic.: Marina-E. Wachs, Hamburg, 2022)

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

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Viele interdisziplinäre Teams und hierarchielose Lern- und Entwurfsfelder und Projekte des letzten Jahrzehnts untermauern dieses Anliegen. Ebenso das Engagement im ‚Programme of European Mentoring‘, das ich im Jahr 2021 auf ‚offizielle‘ Füße stellte.

Mehr dazu finden Sie im Buch: ‚Design Engineering – sustainable and holistic‘, von Marina-Elena Wachs im Avedition Verlag, 2022

Einblick: design_engineering_issuu

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ISBN 978-3-89986-362-8