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“Meet Bruce Mau – a visionary design legend who believes that design is the world’s most powerful force, and has developed 24 principles for how we can think, live and work on creating a better world. Here he goes in depth on five of them.”

Mehul Desai and Bruce Mau talk about “Innovation and Societal Progress” in this episode. They discuss knowledge economies, a life-centered approach to design, scalable and sustainable innovation, and much more.

Bruce Mau in conversation with Morning North host Markus Schwabe on Sudburian radio, leading up to the Junction North film fest’s opening night screening of the documentary film, “MAU” in Bruce’s hometown.

Paddy Harrington, host of the First Things First design podcast, interviews Bruce Mau about his book Purpose Design, Bruce’s book Mau: MC24 and his resolute optimism.

“A new documentary about Mau – called, simply, Mau – is being screened this weekend at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. It’s a fascinating look at the designer’s life and how he came to be how he is, and it’s certainly not just for design nerds.”

“Among the livestreamed panel sessions, 80 big names of the design field took part in the talks. Bruce Mau, chief executive officer [and co-founder] of Massive Change Network … talked of the built urban prosperity and sustainability and human well-being. ‘We need to put problems in context,’ said the renowned designer …”  – Eirini Ilia, “Asia’s Premier Design Event Welcomed World-Famous Designers,” designboom.com

“In his talk How Design Can Change the World, delivered during Business of Design Week (BODW) 2021 in Hong Kong, Mau focused on how designers can help create sustainable ways of living. The designer believes that empathy is key to the design process as it helps with problem-solving.”

– Dezeen staff

“Mau’s goal is for both top leaders and mid-level management to incorporate life-centered design into their implementation of foreign policy. Those in charge of budgets, programming and human resources can make a difference, because allocation of resources is a form of design.” – Robin Holzhauer, “Applying Bruce Mau’s Life-Centered Design to Diplomacy,” Diplomatic Diary.

“Bruce is staunch in his belief that to truly tackle the crisis we are currently facing, we need to utilise the power of markets – and, fundamentally, that means collaborating with, or at least getting in the room with, organisations and institutions that historically have had the most negative impact on our planet.”  – Ruby Boddington, It’s Nice That (11-25-2021)

Recently, Touchpoint publisher Prof. Birgit Mager sat down with design pioneer Bruce Mau to discuss his recent thinking about enterprise design, the significance of canoe-building and life-centred design. Touchpoint is a publication of Service Design Network. The full interview appears in Touchpoint Vol. 12 No. 3, and is available for purchase.