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Bruce Mau
Bruce Mau, co-founder and CEO of Massive Change Network (MCN), is a renowned designer, innovator, educator, author, and artist. He's celebrated for his life-centered design methodology, a holistic, systems-based approach that guides MCN's global design consultancy. With a career spanning over 40 years of design innovation, Bruce has partnered with global brands, leading organizations, and heads of state.
Bruce serves as a professor and strategic curricular advisor for higher education institutions including institute professor at Arizona State University, and was the 2025 inaugural Phillip A Levy Fellow in Life Centered Design at the University of Wisconsin. Alongside MCN co-founder Bisi Williams, he launched Massive Action, an immersive learning initiative focused on shaping a better future. Bruce has designed over 250 books, including the landmark publication S,M,L,XL with Rem Koolhaas, MC24, and co-authored The Nexus. His work and life were recently featured in the documentary Mau.
“If you think about design as a community-based practice, any intention makes you a designer. You have a goal and you want to move to that place, to move the world to that place, so you become a designer. We haven't truly witnessed global collaboration of this kind before, and that's precisely where the Young Climate Prize excels—it harnesses essential intergenerational collaboration. I consider this absolutely critical to my generation's success. We need to fundamentally alter our perception of what's possible, recognizing that we genuinely have no limitation on what we can achieve.”
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