Headshot of Bruce Mau alongside a spherical artwork

Bruce Mau: Humans in Space

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Visionary designer, author, educator, and artist Bruce Mau explores groundbreaking ideas in sustainability, creativity, and design. For this talk, Mau delves into his approach to life-centered design, interplanetary civilization, and the discovery of the beauty and diversity of our home planet. He will also share the ideas that shaped his “fictional factual future” work, A Love Letter to the XO Planets and the Mosaic Manifesto that are part of the PST Art exhibition Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination, developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and presented by the Glendale Public Library.

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