MOGU PLUMA RECEIVES HONOURABLE MENTION AT THE INTERNATIONAL COMPASSO D’ORO – EXPO OSAKA 2025
FEATURING THE LARGEST MYCELIUM PANELS EVER PRODUCED
Mogu is proud to announce that its PLUMA Acoustic Panels have been awarded an Honourable Mention from the ADI Design Index as part of the International Compasso d’Oro Award — a recognition that reaffirms Mogu’s role among the most innovative and culturally significant design projects on the global stage.
The 2025 International Compasso d’Oro celebrates works that embody the Expo’s theme, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” explored through three key pillars: Saving Lives, Empowering Lives, and Connecting Lives.
Founded in 1954 by Gio Ponti, the Compasso d’Oro is Italy’s most prestigious design prize. Over the past 70 years, it has built a collection of more than 2,500 works, officially recognised by the Italian Ministry of Culture as a “heritage of exceptional artistic and historical value.”
The award ceremony took place at Expo 2025 Osaka on 5 September 2025 and will be restaged in Milan on 9 December 2025. This edition is held under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, with the support of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) — governing body of World Expos — and in media partnership with Dezeen, the leading global platform for design and architecture.
A PAVILION AS A REGENERATIVE MANIFESTO
Matter can emerge from collaboration with living systems. It can listen, absorb, and transform — not only spaces, but also culture.
This philosophy is embodied at the German Pavilion of Expo 2025 Osaka, where Mogu’s PLUMA Acoustic Panels do more than absorb sound: they express memory, regeneration, and harmony between nature and design.
Curated by Koelnmesse GmbH for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the pavilion itself is conceived as a manifesto of regenerative architecture — circular forms created with recyclable and reusable materials, designed so every component can eventually return to the natural cycle without leaving waste behind.
In this context, Mogu PLUMA becomes a living testament to circular design. Born from mycelium and textile residues and shaped through a unique fermentation process, the panels combine outstanding acoustic performance with thinness, biodegradability, and a radical alternative to synthetic plastics.
BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: TOWARDS A NEW MATERIAL CULTURE
Nearly 200 PLUMA panels, installed both inside and outside the pavilion, transform the architecture into a sensorial landscape. Visitors are immersed in an environment where sound, tactility, and design ethics resonate in unison.
In an era that demands concrete answers to climate change, Mogu offers a new material grammar — one that reconnects design with biology and reintroduces matter as part of a circular living cycle.
THE LARGEST MYCELIUM PANELS EVER PRODUCED
Hidden within the pavilion lies a remarkable achievement: the PLUMA panels developed for Expo 2025 are the largest mycelium panels ever produced in a commercial context.
This milestone is not only technical but also symbolic. By pushing the boundaries of scale, Mogu demonstrates how biotechnology can reshape architecture and interior design at dimensions once thought impossible, marking a new chapter in biotech-driven innovation touching upon everyday life.
With PLUMA Acoustic Panels, Mogu has contributed more than an architectural solution — it has presented a vision of regeneration, innovation, and poetic materiality.
The Honourable Mention from the ADI Design Index confirms Mogu’s place among the projects shaping the future of design with a committed, positive impact — where living matter becomes design matter, and where innovation and nature merge into a circular, transformative future.
