« 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

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 interactively… thank you for your engagement for the change of sustainable behaviour and educated human beings in the world. Marina-ElenaPublication Reports Marina Elena Wachs Jan 2024

The picture attached as an example for longtime, cross cultural design didactic discussions at EPDE (- Engineering and Product Design Education conferences) with highly appreciated collegues around the world: THANK YOU.

Picture ahead: EPDE Conference 2019 at Glasgow, Marina-Elena Wachs togehter with Prof. Ashley Hall PhD (RCA London) presenting the common paper:

European Driving Range – Innovative Landscapes for a Tangible, Non-hierarchical Learning Space Within a Material and Immaterial Togetherness

Pictures above: organizer Jo Windslow and Dr Lindon Buck with collegues from EU at EPDE conference 2022 – Ross Brisco, Ann-Luise Bang, and many of them all the years in discussing design engineering didactic purpose;

Picture in addition with new design experts Theresa Scholl (Germany) and Giulia D’Aleo (Italy, Milano) , pic.: M.E. Wachs, 2022)

„Linen made“ and hand stiched by Meta Wilkening (*Niemeyer) as textile heritage by Marina-Elena Wachs (granddaughter by Meta Wilkening), this was shown in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg exhibition in 2018, Foto: Valentin Gordon Wachs, 2018.
Linen made means, all the processes from the plant to end of the product in ONE hand – of one strong woman; These textile products are used until today, 90 years old and worth like before – resilient textile design and „textile knowledge archive“.
Picture ahead, Textile Heritage in the Hand of Marina‘, by Linda Deutsch, 2022.

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