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In September 2022, Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams undertook a collaboration with the University of New South Wales through the Massive Change Network (MCN). This was called 'Massive Action Sydney' and saw staff and students from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) form five 'Renaissance
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From 1985 to 2010, Mau was the creative director of Bruce Mau Design (BMD). In 2003, while still at BMD, he founded the Institute Without Boundaries in collaboration with the School of Design at George Brown College, Toronto. In 2010, Mau left the company and went on to co-found
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designer and educator. He began his career a graphic designer and has since applied his design methodology to architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, education, and conceptual philosophy. Mau is the chief executive officer of
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In 1998, Mau produced a 43-point program called an "Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" that attempts to help designers and creative folks think about their design process, the manifesto has been widely circulated on the web.
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remains one of his most notable works. The firm has produced work for the Andy Warhol Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Gagosian Gallery. Mau remained the design director of
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Teams' to collaborate on ways to create Massive Action across some of the most perplexing and wicked challenges of our time. The project and its outcomes are ongoing.
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Medal in 2007. In 2007, Mau was in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Design Objects department.
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until 2004, to which he has added duties as co-editor of Swerve Editions, a Zone imprint. From 1991 to 1993, he also served as creative director of
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Collab Design Excellence Award in 2015, in conjunction with an exhibition of his designs. Mau received the Cooper Hewitt 2016,
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and they have three daughters named Osunkemi, Omalola, and Adeshola (named in honor of Bisi Williams's Nigerian heritage).
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in Toronto, and he studied advertising under Terry Isles. However, before graduation, he left the school to join the
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He has lectured widely across North America and Europe. He served on the International Advisory Committee of the
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in the UK. Returning to Toronto a year later, he became part of the founding triumvirate of
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Mau stayed at Fifty Fingers for two years, before crossing the ocean for a brief sojourn at
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for Design Mind, for his impact on design theory, design practice and/or public awareness.
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In the 2010s, Bruce Mau Design was involved in the redevelopment and redesign of Ontario's
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in Chicago with his wife, Bisi Williams. Mau founded Bruce Mau Studio in 2020.
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presented itself and he left to establish his own studio, Bruce Mau Design.
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In 2010 Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams founded the Massive Change Network.
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As of November 19, 2015, Bruce Mau is the Chief Design Officer for
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for Architecture and Design in 1999. He is a Senior Fellow of the
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From 1996 to 1999, Mau was the Associate Cullinan Professor at
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Since 2009, Mau has served as a Distinguished Fellow of the
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in Houston, Texas. He has also been a thesis advisor at the
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Index

Bruce Mau Design

Sudbury
Ontario
https://www.massivechangenetwork.com/
RCA
Canadian
Massive Change Network
Massive Change Network
Pembroke
Ontario
Sudbury, Ontario
Sudbury Secondary School
Ontario College of Art & Design
Fifty Fingers
Pentagram
Public Good Design and Communications
Zone 1/2
Gilles Deleuze
Paul Virilio
Rem Koolhaas
Christopher Alexander
Zone Books
I.D. magazine
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Herman Miller Design Council
Wexner Center
Stock Exchange of Visions
ONroute
Freeman

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