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munich creative business week 2024

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.

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Highlights mcbw 2024

Turning Point – It's time for something to change

mcbw public space 2024 x Blackspace

With "Turning Point", Blackspace has created an installation for the mcbw public space in the 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. "Because society is at a decisive turning point. In order to secure the basis of life for future generations, we need to rethink our relationship with nature. Design can play an important role in this," says Nadine Vicentini, Managing Director of bayern design, explaining the installation's approach.

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Keynotes, Panels, Dialogues

mcbw design summit 2024

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.

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Partner Program

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mcbw hub / venue

Come visit us at mcbw hub

Our mcbw hub, this year's festival headquarters for munich creative business week, is located at Rindermarkt 10 in the Ruffinihaus. You can not only visit our mcbw info point during our opening hours, but also various design happenings in the mornings and afternoons. Every morning, you can enjoy a creative start to the day by listening to various creative talks and enjoying Munaco Shotbrewer espresso from changing Munich's coffee roasters as well as a small breakfast sponsored by Julius Brantner Brothandwerk. For creative sessions in the morning you have to register, so be quick and take a look at our hub program below.

In the afternoon, our hub will be played by various mcbw partners: Really Really Nice with a printing action where you can have your mcbw tote bag colorfully printed, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung, Strobo, Various Others, Creatives for Future and Plant for the Planet.

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More to explore

In front of the mcbw hub you find the AR installation "Arabidopsis Symphony", which you can try out by using your smartphone and headphones – urgent recommendation! If you just want to take a break and chill for a moment, we have some planty seating possibilites waiting for you by CITY DECKS. The address of the mcbw hub is: #kreativmuenchen Laden Ruffinihaus, Rindermarkt 10, 80331 Munich. Come by, say hi!

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Program at mcbw hub

Stefano Boeri is creative explorer for munich creative business week 2024

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.

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mcbw annual theme 2024: „How to co-create with nature“

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".

Nature as co-designer

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.

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1. Re-Learn!

Design approaches modelled on nature

2. Re-Generate!

Design approaches for the benefit of nature (and mankind)

3. Co-Work!

Design approaches in collaboration with nature

4. Un-Limit!

Design approaches that merge nature and technology

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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

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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Sustainability

Germany's largest design event, small footprint

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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1. Re-Learn!

2. Re-Generate!

3. Co-Work!

4. Un-Limit!

Design Faculty at Hochschule München University of Applied Science (HM): Focusing on design research and shaping the coexistence of humans and nature.

Deloitte Digital: Neil Edion and Andreas Harting driving global connectivity with the common good as their aim.

Team of Excellence for Cultural and Creative Industries, City of Munich: On the role of cultural and creative industries amid societal transformation.

Fünf Höfe: Center manager Katja Köpf explains the CityQuartier’s recipe for success.