World-leading visionary, innovator, designer, and author, Bruce Mau is committed to creative, healthy, ecological and economic abundance. Informed by 25 years of studio experience in design innovation and collaboration with some of the world's leading artists, institutions and businesses, Bruce Mau has made the simple commitment to connect his life and work to education and human development. As Co-Founder of Bruce Mau Live, this new initiative is committed to developing purposeful projects in education, health, leadership, and security.

Motivated by the certainty that the future demands a new breed of designer, Bruce Mau founded the Institute without Boundaries – an innovative, studio-based postgraduate program in collaboration with George Brown College, Toronto. Mau and his students created the groundbreaking exhibition and best-selling book, Massive Change (Phaidon) — a project that declared, "Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world."

Bruce Mau's most recent book, The Third Teacher (Abrams) which he and his studio co-authored with OWP/P Architects and VS Furniture, presents a compendium of ways that design can transform teaching and learning for students, families and teachers to thrive in tomorrow's world.

Mau is an author and designer of award-winning books, including LifeStyle (Phaidon), S,M,L,XL (The Monacelli Press) in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas, and the iconic and celebrated ZONE BOOKS series. Translated into several languages, Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth has been an inspiration with his aphoristic articulation of his personal philosophy and design strategies for unleashing creativity.

Bruce Mau's design philosophies and practical applications are featured in the recently released book, GLIMMER: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe the World by Warren Berger (Penguin Press). According to Berger, Mau seeks to prove that the power of design is boundless, and has the capacity to bring positive change on a global scale.

A new world is evolving. It is driven by purpose and committed to sustainable human development. The new world inspires and demands a new approach. Our future is no longer about selling more stuff to more people – it's about understanding our potential as citizens and designing and producing shared prosperity and abundance. Bruce Mau's purpose is to contribute the most that one possibly can to this new world.

Distinguished award highlights from Mau's career include the Global Creative Leadership Award from the Louise Blouin Foundation; the AIGA Gold Medal for Communication Design; The William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Distinguished Fellow, Segal Design Institute, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University.

What is your favorite thing about your job? I couldn't possibly hold a job any more. I am unemployable. My favorite thing about my work however, is the opportunity I have to work with the people who are trying in so many ways to create the new world. Their challenges and problems, and the energy and commitment they bring to their work, are deeply inspirational.

Where do you go for inspiration? My daughters. They are endlessly creative, beautiful, surprising, brilliant, curious, questioning, and just. They are what citizens need to be. Most impressive, they are unaware of how much they inspire me. They think it's work for me when I do things for them.

What's one thing you do every day to make a difference? I look on the bright side. I can't afford the luxury of cynicism.

What's your favorite thing about where you live? The wildlife. We live near a forest preserve on Chicago's North Shore, and I haven't seen more wild animals since I left the farm in Northern Ontario where I grew up. And it's a five minute walk to the beach. It's awesome.

What's the one thing you'd want people to know about sustainability? Sustainability is cooler—smarter and sexier—than anything that has come before.