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« Craftolution » : ensemble pour la culture, pour le héritage – le Savoir-Faire – culturel dans les domaines de la mode, du design, d’architecture, du textile, et pour l’avenir de l’Europe. Tout d’abord,…
I am very pleased to be part of the DIVIA team, and we are thrilled about the first “YOUNG DIVIA 2026” honor, which was presented in France as part of the Strasbourg Architecture Days…
We at DIVIA, we are pleased to give the first YOUNG DIVIA in 2026, during the Days of Architecture at Strassbourg: With a mentorship about one year from office: DTFLR under the guidance of…
Les recherches de Marina Elena, qui s'inspirent du concept de « Material Mind », s'inscrivent dans un engagement en faveur de la préservation de l'artisanat textile et de la mode : c'est une question…
EPDE Conference 2026, University Bristol, Diversity in Engineering and Product Design Education, from Material Mind to Textile Mind within the Media Turn of the days. The Digitalisation brings new opportunities in creating by VR-glasses,…
Barcelona 28-05- 2026: DIVIA for Lilly Reich at the World Capital of Architecture in 2026 – Spain: Barcelona Equality is freedom the fundamental values of Europe, expressed in our time for the 2nd DIVIA…
Thanks to engaged design talents, cooperation-partners and the WDC – World Design Capital we are engaging to hold on crafts …labs and -knowledge, not only in textile! We are proud of coaching the next textile…
Crafts & AI in Designing the Future … Thanks to the Wilhelm-Lorch-Foundation in Germany, that granted my academic work with the highest price for textile and design disciplines – the German Oscar in textile…
Water-Management - that is! and was our concerns at 22 of April 2026: we created co-design workshops at MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst - at Frankfurt am Main: The World Design Capital -…
We discussed the need for manufactures textiles values, in experimenting and caring about our textile heritage: textile labs, shoe makers, male and female couture and so many more... next to come at 12 of…
– plus d’informations à ce sujet pour plus acitivités en France 2026 à venir … Merci à Paris pour l’exposition et les activités communes en février 2026 : Grâce à notre passion et à…
DIVIA Award 2025 Exposition À Paris, 25 - 27 Février 2026 - Grand Palais Paris, Égalité, visibilité et participation à la culture architecturale pour tous; Rejoignez DIVIA - Diversity in Architecture. Engagement pour une…
Thank you all for 2025!: to all cooperation partnerships in designing and sketching resilient, in textile creation and textile thinking, in designing the new with AI hybrid spaces to proof the human capabilities in…
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. In special, some design…
'Children Centred Hybrid Design Spaces - Next Resilient Designing Generation /-Lab' as publication and report at EPDE - Enginneering and Product Design Education Conference - 2025 at University of Malta. thank s to the…
Shaping the future of architecture, Panel Discussion within preopening programm of Biennale Architettura 2025, Venice, Finalist of DIVIA Award 2025 discussed the future of shaping intelligent architecture solutions together.
emotional expressions, experimenting, exposing … with textiles, art and architecture by Marina-Elena … more to come;)
Textile Archiskulptur, nature inspired, bionic art archtiectura tectura gets textile tactile!
DIVIA AWARD 2025 took place at Venice: Biennale Architettura: 10th of May 2025 - Palazzo Mora. The Catalogue is available at Hatje Cantz publishers, see...
With great thank to Ursula Schwitalla, 1st DIVIA Conference 2024 – „Mind the Gap“, took place at Berlin. Marina was part of moderating team, together with Gesa Balbig – the 2nd Session „Bridging the…
Liebe Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, herzlichen Dank für die klaren Worte und mutigen Statements als Vorsteherin des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024!! ...richtig lesen zu können", was als Grundlage für Teilhabe und…
WDC - World Design Capital - 2026 - at Frankfurt of Main Region, Matthias Wagner K - Director of Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK) Frankurt am Main - and his fantastic team to the…
Design Engineering - sustainable and holistic, publied by brand: AVEDITION. At Frankfurt Book Fair 2024, we discussed together, the educational and industrial sustainable future in design. https://www.avedition.de/en/design-engineering-sustainable-and-holistic/978-3-89986-362-8
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…
Danke für einen wundervollen Austausch mit Karin und Bertram Schmidt-Friderichs; Inhaber des Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz und mit riesen Erfahrung im Designen, nicht allein von Büchern. Wie kann Design nachhaltig Zukunft gestalten, welche Prozesse…
Dear Veronika Lukashevich, thank you so much for the brilliant fine interview – creating a fine atmosphere of confidence within this dynamic world of change, see you next at DIVIA – Diversity in Architecture.…
Wir holen Sie in der Material-Entwicklung ab: wir begutachten Materialien, entwickeln nachhaltige Materialien, vermitteln Wissen für nachhaltige Material-Designs der Zukunft. Wir bilden und motivieren für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit Materialien und erstellen Konzepte für…
I donated for a future of educated women, for a design cooperation project for Africa and Germany. please come along with us, to engage for more fairness about education „equilibrium“. At the 6 of…
to train your senses beside the tasks of the day; SERIES by MARINA-ELENA WACHS: 'you have to regard more precise-series' since 2018 for example.
About Publications / Reports / New scientific Membership Marina-Elena Wachs 1st Author 1st of Jan. 2024 2024: (blind review): Reports / Publications: Embodied experience first before designing with(in) A.I. – Conference EPDE 2024…
Please see attached the Studio- Portfolio by Marina-Elena Wachs -2026-english. Please see attached the CV by Marina-Elena Wachs: CV Marina-Elena Wachs 02CV_Marina_Elena_Wachs_2026 Please feel invited to conact the studio for questions about work spaces,…
In the year 2021, the ‚Program of European Mentoring‘ was intiated by Marina-Elena Wachs. She always invites joung design talents around the world, and in special from Europe, researching and presenting together the new…
Cool Wool Costume - timeless fashion design - handcrafts knowledge - as master of couture - this is one example of Marina-Elena Wachs Archives... the 'architecture' of fashion;
Trench Coat from the 1990s, hand crafteded, cut shaped to the individual body, classical style with be loved colour, details like rose pearl buttons and warm cosy natural based 100% cellulose material ...lasting for…
consulting means togetherness, ideating with your DNA, a reflected, redesigning process or ideating the new one, it is about our first brain storm – together. – workshop based, analytics with trend research, based on…
To the Marina-Elena Wachs Archives: ‚thank you with music…‘ – Summer party with fantastic musicians grateful to 3 decades of creativity. With grateful thanks to Ulrike Spengler and so many other musicians, cooperation partners…
White blazer coat of wool, made by Marina-Elena during the 1990s, wearing it until today- longlasting classics - what else.
Together with RAUMPROBE Stuttgart – always a great pleasur in cooperating. In the year 2023 we came around for discussing the material and crafts technology of ceramics – not only by Ceramic Districts –…
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…
…tribute to sustainable designing and planning; 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…
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…
Please see attached the list of publication and reports by Marina-Elena Wachs. Within the year the focus is about SDG 4,5,6, 12 and 17… Together we are dicussing resilient design solutions around the world…
CV Marina-Elena Wachs See attached the CV by Marina-Elena Wachs, as Industrial Designer, Master-Tailor and Professor for Design Theory. CV_Marina-Elena Wachs 02/2026 02CV_Marina_Elena_Wachs_2026
Family owned textile heritage – sometimes the trigger point – let us looking back to the roots and at the same time expressing the strength of „The Northern natural knowledge in crafts technology and…
Evening Gown II – classics – hands on designing See the brilliant silk made, duchesse satin for the rose skirt and the white „grand chemisier“ made of white popeline – 100 % cotton made;…
Product Design – ‚Light goes‘ – interdisciplinary designing long lasting products; Interdisciplinary working research groups are the glory and worth as its best. The group ‚light goes‘ for light development… …represents as best as…
Design theoretisch reflektiert – im interdisziplinären Raum, cross cultural and cross generational ist resilient und sinnvoll. Innerhalb der „sustainable design studies“ von Marina-Elena Wachs, ist der interdisziplinäre Gedanke an eine wissenschaftliche Design-Area gewachsen und…
See the iconic picture of classical fashion, the cool wool couture, Marina created and produced 30 years ago – during her apprenticeship -, and she is wearing the costume – at the same time…
Please, to hold on crafts knowledge in Germany and Europe, working in cross continantal integrated design teams together. "First embodied experiences before designing with(in) AI" is the plea in 2024 - at several expert…
Herzlichen Dank an alle Designerinnen und das Team um Dr. Murr - TIM Augsburg. See the insight of the exhibition 'design goals for sustainable textile solutions', see the movie at tim Augsburg: https://www.timbayern.de/ausstellungen/design-goals/
EPDE Conference 2024 at Birmingham, at Aston University with the topic about "Rise the Machines": Wachs, Marina-Elena, (Hochschule Niederrhein – University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Gesa Balbig (BYBORRE, NL), Yani Chaung (Textile Museum Tilburg,…
The movie ‘substance’ by Linda Deutsch is an appell to change for a better - interview partner like Marina-Elena Wachs and other experts contributed for this aim.
Design ist nachhaltige Verantwortung, Design ist Teil unserer Kultur/-Geschichte, des materiellen und kulturellen Gedächtnis und formt unser Leben im Umgang mit Dingen, Konzepten und der Natur. Design ist nachhaltiger Anspruch, und das heißt Reduktion…
Material Mind – by Marina-Elena 2007 Die Veröffentlichung „Material Mind – Materialgedächtnis: Neue Materialien in Design, Kunst und Architektur“ im Dr. Kovac Verlag 2007 erschienen, ist zugleich die Doktorarbeit von Marina-Elena Wachs. Die Promotion…
In the year 2011, Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs published togehter with Prof. Dorothee Weinlich (Hochschule Hannover – Fakultät III Medien, Information, Design) the german / engl. title about: – how to write a PhD…
2012 Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs x Prof. Ellen Bendt Hochschule Niederrhein – FB Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik Kooperationsprojekt mit Woolmark international Ltd. und Marc Cain Innerhalb des Wool School Projektes der Campaign for Wool erarbeiteten…
2012/13 Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs zusammen mit Prof. Ellen Bendt, Hochschule Niederrhein – FB Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik Die Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit hat große Tradition an unserer Hochschule, insbesondere am Fachbereich Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik. Viele…
The German Look at Design – advanced TEXTILE solutions 2015 / Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs zusammen mit Prof. Ellen Bendt, Hochschule Niederrhein – FB Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik The interdisciplinary project „The German Look –…
20xx / Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs Hochschule Niederrhein – FB Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik „BLUE ist das neue GREEN der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte im Design“ (Wachs). Diese These war der Auftakt zum neuen interdisziplinären Thema, das am…
2017 / Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs Hochschule Niederrhein – FB Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik Design attraction and design codes stands in relationship to function and strategy concepts in business cases of fashion as well as…
« Craftolution » : ensemble pour la culture, pour le héritage – le Savoir-Faire – culturel dans les domaines de la mode, du design,
I am very pleased to be part of the DIVIA team, and we are thrilled about the first “YOUNG DIVIA 2026” honor, which was
We at DIVIA, we are pleased to give the first YOUNG DIVIA in 2026, during the Days of Architecture at Strassbourg: With a mentorship
Les recherches de Marina Elena, qui s’inspirent du concept de « Material Mind », s’inscrivent dans un engagement en faveur de la préservation de l’artisanat textile et de la mode : c’est une question d’éducation culturelle… et cela nous concerne tous en Europe.
EPDE Conference 2026, University Bristol, Diversity in Engineering and Product Design Education, from Material Mind to Textile Mind within the Media Turn of the days. The Digitalisation brings new opportunities in creating by VR-glasses, that brings great challenges in Textile-Design. The ‚HUMAN-CAS‘ by Kristina Rem was one point of new findings, beside the discussion of the essence of tactile-, textile- and tacit-knowledge.
Barcelona 28-05- 2026: DIVIA for Lilly Reich at the World Capital of Architecture in 2026 – Spain: Barcelona Equality is freedom the fundamental values
Thanks to engaged design talents, cooperation-partners and the WDC – World Design Capital we are engaging to hold on crafts …labs and -knowledge, not only
Crafts & AI in Designing the Future … Thanks to the Wilhelm-Lorch-Foundation in Germany, that granted my academic work with the highest price for
Water-Management – that is! and was our concerns at 22 of April 2026: we created co-design workshops at MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst – at Frankfurt am Main: The World Design Capital – WDC – invited us and we invited all citizens to create together, to feel together, how textiles, natrual fibres – like cotton grass -, natural dying methods to be re-valued and „corporal knitting technics“ could be the future of a responsible usage of water.
We discussed the need for manufactures textiles values, in experimenting and caring about our textile heritage: textile labs, shoe makers, male and female couture and so many more… next to come at 12 of June 2026 at WDC – World Design Capital at Frankfurt of Main, when we are going for the CRY FOR DEMOCRACY – to hold on textiles crafts labs and -knowledge.
– plus d’informations à ce sujet pour plus acitivités en France 2026 à venir … Merci à Paris pour l’exposition et les activités communes
DIVIA Award 2025 Exposition À Paris, 25 – 27 Février 2026 – Grand Palais Paris, Égalité, visibilité et participation à la culture architecturale pour tous; Rejoignez DIVIA – Diversity in Architecture. Engagement pour une Équilibre dans l’Architecture et le Design.
Thank you all for 2025!: to all cooperation partnerships in designing and sketching resilient, in textile creation and textile thinking, in designing the new
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. In special, some design projects are focussing on sustainable water-management solutions and using the German textile heritage for future designs.
‚Children Centred Hybrid Design Spaces – Next Resilient Designing Generation /-Lab‘ as publication and report at 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!
Shaping the future of architecture, Panel Discussion within preopening programm of Biennale Architettura 2025, Venice, Finalist of DIVIA Award 2025 discussed the future of shaping intelligent architecture solutions together.
emotional expressions, experimenting, exposing … with textiles, art and architecture by Marina-Elena … more to come;)
Textile Archiskulptur, nature inspired, bionic art archtiectura tectura gets textile tactile!
DIVIA AWARD 2025 took place at Venice: Biennale Architettura: 10th of May 2025 – Palazzo Mora. The Catalogue is available at Hatje Cantz publishers, see…
With great thank to Ursula Schwitalla, 1st DIVIA Conference 2024 – „Mind the Gap“, took place at Berlin. Marina was part of moderating team,
Liebe Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, herzlichen Dank für die klaren Worte und mutigen Statements als Vorsteherin des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024!! …richtig lesen zu können“, was als Grundlage für Teilhabe und Demokratisches Denken, die „precondition“ für NACHHALTIGEs Verhalten der Menschen und den wirtschaftlichen nachhaltigen Erfolg eines jeden Landes ist.
WDC – World Design Capital – 2026 – at Frankfurt of Main Region, Matthias Wagner K – Director of Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK) Frankurt am Main – and his fantastic team to the motto of the WDC 2026: ‚Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life‘. Call for submissions until 31. of October 2024: ps://wdc2026.org/en/
Design Engineering – sustainable and holistic, publied by brand: AVEDITION. At Frankfurt Book Fair 2024, we discussed together, the educational and industrial sustainable future in design. https://www.avedition.de/en/design-engineering-sustainable-and-holistic/978-3-89986-362-8
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?“
Danke für einen wundervollen Austausch mit Karin und Bertram Schmidt-Friderichs; Inhaber des Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz und mit riesen Erfahrung im Designen, nicht allein von Büchern. Wie kann Design nachhaltig Zukunft gestalten, welche Prozesse und welches Medienmanagement – auch mit KI -, welches Wissen müssen / wollen wir erhalten und auf welche Art der Wissensvermittlung können wir der kommenden Generation Gestaltungsfreiheit eröffnen?
Dear Veronika Lukashevich, thank you so much for the brilliant fine interview – creating a fine atmosphere of confidence within this dynamic world of
Wir holen Sie in der Material-Entwicklung ab: wir begutachten Materialien, entwickeln nachhaltige Materialien, vermitteln Wissen für nachhaltige Material-Designs der Zukunft. Wir bilden und motivieren
I donated for a future of educated women, for a design cooperation project for Africa and Germany. please come along with us, to engage
to train your senses beside the tasks of the day; SERIES by MARINA-ELENA WACHS: ‚you have to regard more precise-series‘ since 2018 for example.
About Publications / Reports / New scientific Membership Marina-Elena Wachs 1st Author 1st of Jan. 2024 2024: (blind review): Reports / Publications: Embodied
Please see attached the Studio- Portfolio by Marina-Elena Wachs -2026-english. Please see attached the CV by Marina-Elena Wachs: CV Marina-Elena Wachs 02CV_Marina_Elena_Wachs_2026 Please feel
In the year 2021, the ‚Program of European Mentoring‘ was intiated by Marina-Elena Wachs. She always invites joung design talents around the world, and
Cool Wool Costume – timeless fashion design – handcrafts knowledge – as master of couture – this is one example of Marina-Elena Wachs Archives… the ‚architecture‘ of fashion;
Trench Coat from the 1990s, hand crafteded, cut shaped to the individual body, classical style with be loved colour, details like rose pearl buttons and warm cosy natural based 100% cellulose material …lasting for ever;
consulting means togetherness, ideating with your DNA, a reflected, redesigning process or ideating the new one, it is about our first brain storm –
To the Marina-Elena Wachs Archives: ‚thank you with music…‘ – Summer party with fantastic musicians grateful to 3 decades of creativity. With grateful thanks
White blazer coat of wool, made by Marina-Elena during the 1990s, wearing it until today- longlasting classics – what else.
Together with RAUMPROBE Stuttgart – always a great pleasur in cooperating. In the year 2023 we came around for discussing the material and crafts
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.
…tribute to sustainable designing and planning; See the fantastic books by Ulrike Brandi and Marina-Elena Wachs… industrial designer, Ulrike with specialisation to lighting planning
