Marina Elena Wachs

water management & co-designing at WDC – World Design Capital

Marina Wachs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:10:24 +0000

Water-Management – that is! and was our concern 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. See some impressions also to mediate the stiching technics for trans cultural and design understanding and many more: thanks to Georg Bertsch and his team of WDC – thanks to Matthias Wagner K. director of MAK Frankfurt of Main, the man, who fighted successfully to get the WDC to Frankfurt of Main & Region.

… more events to come at WDC at Frankfurt at June… and July: Design for Democracy – atmospheres for a better life.

We will balance the ball of textile and water management:

Our greatest thank to Matthias Wagner K. and Georg Bertsch, we see us again at MAK: 12.06.2026: Follow us to the „Cry for Democracy… My thank to Lilo, Michèle, Chalin, Nina – and not at the following picture: Nora and Lea. Thank you for your engagement for Design for Democracy and our reslient water management in the future: it is our common goal.

next stop Vienna – to hold on textile crafts for theatres

Marina Wachs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:41:05 +0000

…Après PARIS pour DIVIA and a fantastic togetherness to make the female architectes plus visible, Marina went to Vienna to ART for ART, the costume labs for the Opera: See some pictures, when I met Jonna and 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.

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!

DIVIA en France 2026 – Partenaire des ODD ! L’Europe unie plus pour l’ODD 17

Marina Wachs — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:11:09 +0000

– 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 notre amour pour le design et la construction durable : tous ensemble, dans un esprit d’intégration sans hiérarchie !, le Forum International Bois Construction 2026 à Paris – au Grand Palais, lieu chargé d’histoire – a été un grand succès !

Engagés pour les ODD : en particulier les ODD 5 et 17 : « Égalité des sexes » et « Partenariats pour la réalisation pour les objectifs » !

Et ce succès va continuer à grandir : une valeur ajoutée encore plus belle et culturellement plus significative grâce à de nouvelles coopérations de DIVIA en France d’ici 2026 !

Un grand merci pour l’excellent travail de mise en réseau de Nicole Valkyser Bergmann (Directrice de NVBCOM, organisatrice du Forum International Bois Construction et de l’International Award Wood Architecture), Milena Karanesheva (KRAWITZ – Paris), Much Untertrifaller et Astrid Rappel (Dietrich Untertrifaller DTFLR, Paris / Strasbourg et autres lieux), Marie Acton, Arian Lehner (architektur aktuell) et bien d’autres encore ! Merci à notre équipe DIVIA, en particulier à Ursula Schwitalla, ainsi qu’à nos nouveaux talents qui nous apportent un soutien formidable à Paris : Tuba Benli et Michèle Lemper. Voici quelques impressions de février 2026 à Paris, avec l’annonce de nouvelles DIVIA initiatives en France en 2026 ! Merci à Astrid Rappel et Katharina Brockstedt (INSA Strasbourg) …

Pour l’équilibre des chances dans le design et l’architecture…

et: pour l’engagement pour les arbres, regarde en plus l’activités de Much Untertrifaller avec son bureau Dietrich Untertrifaller et avec Cléments Gy et d’autre architectes avec le discussion au Forum: „Construire avec moin – révékatuib et mobilisation de ressources territoriales“ – 27 février 2026. Pour soutenir l’engagement regarde en plus les impression du parc de Vincennes à Paris – en des role models pour education en ce cas…

plus d’information pour cela va venir: pour l’engagement pour les Arbres et pour DIVIA en France en 2026 plus!

Merci! Marina-Elena

Pour l’Égalité à PARIS: DIVIA, du 25 au 27 février 2026

Marina Wachs — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:02:22 +0000

L’égalité, c’est la liberté et la fraternité, les valeurs fondamentales de la France, exprimées à notre époque pour l’avenir d’architecture:

« 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.

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Pure in Art by M.E. 2026 – looking forward

Marina Wachs — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:19:25 +0000

Preview coming soon:
à 2026, Pure in Art by M.E. – will be shown in 2026 /2027

This art will be connected to the archives…M.E.

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Looking Back to 2025 – thank you!

Marina Wachs — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:09:26 +0000

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 designing sustainable solutions for the future to come: togetherness is my motivation!

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

Textile Codes #3 – International Design / Education

Marina Wachs — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:50:44 +0000

The publication about „Textile Codes #3“ is the third in this row with the theme about International Design / Education with case studies of Water-Management and COIL projects in special.

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

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Children Centred Hybrid Design Spaces – Designing Lab – EPDE 2025

Marina Wachs — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:28:57 +0000

In 2025 the EPDE Conference 2025 took place at University of Malta with the theme aobut: ‚Fostering Human-Centred Products and Services Design (OUTPACE)‘

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

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!

art – textile heritage – architecture in Europe – New Research

Marina Wachs — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:05:03 +0000

emotional expressions, experimenting, exposing … with textiles, art and architecture by Marina-Elena … more to come;)