Organized by bayern design, munich creative business week (mcbw) is the largest design event in Germany and provides a platform for new ideas, trends, and creativity. mcbw fosters interdisciplinary dialog and brings together the public, experts, designers, company representatives, and students from design, architecture, the economy, and other disciplines to deliver comprehensive design experiences over the course of nine days. With new festival headquarters, a new key visual, and a new highly topical, society-relevant motto "How to co-create with nature", mcbw will take place in Munich for the 13th time from May 11 to 19, 2024. Check out the program and plan your inspiring nine days of design in Munich.
How can we (re)learn to live, manage and design together with nature? This year's mcbw design summit 2024 is all about nature as a co-creator. Together with the Italian architect and mcbw creative explorer Stefano Boeri, as well as many other internationally renowned speakers, we will present innovative design approaches and put nature centre stage. Save the date: The mcbw design summit will take place on Monday, 13 May 2024 at Munich Urban Colab.
At Rindermarkt in the heart of Munich's city center you find the mcbw hub, the festival headquarters during the mcbw from 11 - 19 May 2024. Here you can not only get information and get yourself the mcbw magazine 2024, you also have the opportunity to take part in inspiring morning sessions. From 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 14 there will be an exciting talk every day, which you can listen to over a Julius Brantner pretzel and Munaco espresso breakfast. In the afternoon, our partner events will take place from 2 pm. You can find all the information in our program. The address of the mcbw hub is: #kreativmuenchen Laden Ruffinihaus, Rindermarkt 10, 80331 Munich.
With his work, renowned Italian-born architect and professor of architecture Stefano Boeri is exemplary of the new mcbw motto, How to cocreate with nature. As Author and publisher of Green Obsession. Trees towards Cities. Humans towards Forests (2021), Boeri will be the keynote speaker at the mcbw design summit scheduled for May 13, 2024 at Munich Urban Colab.
Together with our partners and other interested parties, we set out to explore the many ways in which design can help us (re-)learn how to work in partnership with nature, to accept it as a co-designer, and to live and grow side by side with it: collaboration instead of domination. To steer these reflections in a distinct direction, we have coined a tagline that sums up our concern and our mission for the future in a nutshell: "How to co-create with nature".
The world is still in a state of upheaval, and it is impacting all areas of life and all industries. One of our greatest challenges is our relationship with nature. For this exploration we have defined four focus topics in accordance to the annual theme 2024.
Design approaches modelled on nature
Design approaches for the benefit of nature (and mankind)
Design approaches in collaboration with nature
Design approaches that merge nature and technology
The munich creative business week takes place every year in May. During 9 days of mcbw, the creative scene meets in Munich to learn about the latest trends, technologies and innovations in the various design disciplines, to exchange ideas and to network.
Planning and implementing the largest design event in Germany is only possible with strong partners at our side. We try to offer almost all events during the 9 days of mcbw free of charge to make participation possible for all interested parties. If you share our vision of a diverse and strong metropolitan region and want to present your organization as a digital pioneer, then become a sponsor or media partner of mcbw 2024. Please contact us.
Unfortunately, over 140 events with international speakers and guests from all over the world cannot take place without CO2 emissions. We try to keep these as low as possible wherever possible: Our team uses rail and public transport, we avoid travel abroad and, if there is no other option, we offset our emissions. We are absolutely uncompromising on other points: we work with regional service providers, agencies and suppliers, such as for our vegetarian and vegan catering, and try to avoid packaging waste. Together with our partners and visitors, we want to constantly improve. Thanks to you!
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