Fabiana Würgler
Oct 23, 2019
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Mogu PLUMA Acoustic Panels Receive Honourable Mention at International Compasso d’Oro – Expo Osaka 2025
We are thrilled to share that Mogu’s PLUMA Acoustic Panels have been awarded an Honourable Mention from the ADI Design Index as part of the International Compasso d’Oro Award 2025 — one of the most prestigious design recognitions worldwide.
Celebrating Design for Future Societies
This accolade underscores Mogu’s role at the forefront of innovative, culturally significant design, highlighting its commitment to sustainable, regenerative materials.This accolade underscores Mogu’s role at the forefront of innovative, culturally significant design, highlighting its commitment to sustainable, regenerative materials.
The 2025 International Compasso d’Oro, held at Expo Osaka, celebrates projects aligned with the theme: “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, explored through three pillars:
Saving Lives
Empowering Lives
Connecting Lives
Founded in 1954 by Gio Ponti, the Compasso d’Oro has become Italy’s most renowned design award, officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture for its extraordinary artistic and historical value.
The award ceremony took place on 5 September 2025 in Osaka and will be restaged in Milan on 9 December 2025. This edition is supported by Italian governmental bodies and the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), with media partnership from Dezeen.
A Pavilion as a Regenerative Manifesto
Mogu PLUMA Acoustic Panels are featured in the German Pavilion at Expo Osaka, curated by Koelnmesse GmbH for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
Here, nearly 200 panels — installed both indoors and outdoors — do more than absorb sound: they embody memory, regeneration, and the harmony between nature and design.
The pavilion itself is conceived as a manifesto of regenerative architecture, using circular, recyclable, and reusable materials that can fully re-enter natural cycles.
Beyond Sustainability: A New Material Culture
Mogu PLUMA panels are made from mycelium and textile residues through a unique fermentation process, offering:
Exceptional acoustic performance
Thinness and biodegradability
A radical alternative to synthetic plastics
The panels transform the pavilion into a sensory landscape, immersing visitors in an environment where sound, touch, and design ethics resonate in harmony.
The Largest Mycelium Panels Ever Produced
A remarkable milestone of this project is that the PLUMA panels installed at Expo 2025 are the largest mycelium panels ever produced commercially.
By pushing the boundaries of scale, Mogu demonstrates how biotechnology can redefine architecture and interior design, proving that living, bio-based materials can shape spaces at unprecedented dimensions.
A Vision for Circular Innovation
Mogu PLUMA Panels are more than architectural solutions: they represent a vision of regeneration, innovation, and poetic materiality.
The Honourable Mention from the ADI Design Index confirms Mogu’s position among projects shaping the future of design — where living matter becomes design matter, and where innovation and nature merge into a circular, transformative future.
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