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Empowered by bayern design, the mcbw is the biggest design event in Germany and an important meeting point for the national and international creative and design industries. During its nine days, we annually bring together designers, design enthusiasts, companies, and students from all design-related fields and industries to promote interdisciplinary exchange and make the relevance of design accessible and tangible for everyone. To highlight the societal, ecological, and economic importance of design, each year we dedicate the mcbw to a new annual theme.

Annual Theme: How to Design a Vibrant Community

Overcoming boundaries together through design. At a time when the divisive is more noticeable than the unifying, our need for togetherness is growing. Let's explore together how openness, curiosity and cooperation can create solutions through design that improve the world we live in. Join us at mcbw 2025 under the annual theme "How to design a vibrant community" and shape the future with us!

The three focus topics of mcbw 2025

All about the annual theme 2025

OPENING MINDS

design awakens curiosity

Design is always also a process: it questions the given and thus finds and opens doors where there were none before. By playfully creating connections that no one has seen before, design deepens understanding. Because design is not only curious per se, but also arouses curiosity in us humans.

SHAPING TOGETHERNESS

design makes people cooperate

Design is always also a process: it questions the given and thus finds and opens doors where there were none before. By playfully creating connections that no one has seen before, design deepens understanding. Because design is not only curious per se, but also arouses curiosity in us humans.

INSPIRING EMPATHY

design points out the human factor

In an increasingly technological world, the question arises of how to preserve the human factor. While Artificial Intelligence supports decision-making, emotional intelligence remains essential. It explores how technology can be used to unleash creative potential and foster empathetic relationships.

All about the annual theme 2025
Become an mcbw partner 2025
Shape the future with us

Become an mcbw partner 2025

Join our design community and contribute your ideas! As an mcbw partner, you have the opportunity to actively participate in exciting projects and develop innovative solutions together with creative minds in the design industry. Be part of the change and set new standards in design. Let's break boundaries together and shape a vibrant, creative future! Follow the link below and discover our partner packages for your participation in mcbw 2025.

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Call for Speakers
Your impulse at mcbw 2025

Call for Speakers

We look forward to receiving your application as a speaker at our mcbw design summit on 12.5.2025! Together we want to overcome boundaries and ask what design can do for a vibrant community. We see openness, curiosity and cooperation as promising answers to getting closer to a vibrant community. Do you have a project or topic that fits in with our annual motto? Can you get the specialist audience excited about your cause in 10 minutes? Then apply now for one of the free slots and become part of Munich Design Week 2025.

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What you need to know: 

  • The topic of the presentation must relate to our annual motto or one of its sub-themes - you can find more about the annual motto here
  • The length of the presentation is a maximum of 10 minutes
  • We cannot cover travel and accommodation costs
  • Please make sure that you are available live on 12.5.2025 in Munich
  • The Design Summit is a live event, we cannot connect you hybrid
  • No Sales Pitches :) 

What we need from you: 

  • Presentation title
  • Short biographical information, also in tabular form
  • Abstract of your presentation (min. 500 to max. 1,000 characters)
  • Send all this by January 6, 2025 to contact @ mcbw.de
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Recap of nine days design

That was mcbw 2024

Click through exciting highlights
Magazine 2024

Click through exciting highlights

Would you like to read this year's mcbw magazine 2024 on the theme "How to co-create with nature" again digitally or forward it to someone interested? Click through the magazine - you can expect exciting insights into bayern design, mcbw and our mcbw partners in 2024.

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Thank you for participating
Co-Creation Power

Thank you for participating

Thanks to you, we can look back on an incredibly exciting munich creative business week, which once again showed us what creative synergies can achieve. For nine days, a wide variety of contributions on the topic of design shed light on this year's motto "How to co-create with nature". The figures also speak for themselves again this year. With around 65,000 visitors, munich creative business week is and remains the largest design event in Germany. It is precisely because of this concentrated design power, the inspiring buzz and the wonderful outcome that we organise mcbw every year full of motivation. Time to say thank you! Thank you for your participation, your contributions and your never-ending commitment to thinking about our future and playing a part in our unstoppable desire to make a positive contribution.

Facts und Figures

Recap mcbw 2024

It is only thanks to you, your visits, participation and support that mcbw can become even better and bigger every year. We would therefore like to thank you for your commitment, your passion and your knowledge that you have shared with us. 

Further information

65.000

Visitors

200

Events

190

Partners

300

Speakers

Further information
Design Summit 2024
Keynotes, Panels, Dialogues

Design Summit 2024

How can we (re)learn to live, manage and design together with nature? This year's mcbw design summit 2024 was all about nature as a co-creator. Together with the Italian architect and mcbw creative explorer 2024 Stefano Boeri, as well as many other internationally renowned speakers, we presented innovative design approaches and put nature centre stage. 

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Designwalk Haidhausen
Inspirational Neighborhood

Designwalk Haidhausen

You missed the mcbw designwalk 2024 or want to listen to it again? No problem, because here you can find all the interviews with this year's 9 design stations and you can also click through the various speaker profiles for more information. Including: Jules & Mel in the HERE Store, Suupinga, Macy Munich, Studio B, Studio 11, Wineslingers, REIBOLDS, Silberfabrik and the "Breisässer Platz" of Die Städtischen. We wish you fun while listening! 

Designwalk 2024
Installation at Kunstareal
Public Space 2024

Installation at Kunstareal

With "Turning Point", Blackspace has created an installation for the mcbw public space at Kunstareal on behalf of bayern design that takes up the 2024 motto "How to co-create with nature" and calls on people to celebrate nature together. Michael Keller, Managing Director of Blackspace: "It's time for something to change. Nature can exist without man, but man cannot live without nature".

Public Space 2024

Newsletter

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See you again in May 2025 at the latest! Get all the news and updates on munich creative business week 2025 with our regular updates.
 

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Online Magazine

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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.

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Thanks to our sponsors and media partners

Thanks to our sponsors and media partners

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.

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