Mogu at the 13th Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Étienne with an installation featuring PLUMA Acoustic Panels
From April 25 to July 6, 2025, Mogu is proud to be featured in the main exhibition “Ressource(s), présager demain” at the 13th Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Étienne, one of the leading international platforms dedicated to contemporary design.
Our participation takes the form of a large-scale installation showcasing PLUMA, the latest collection of mycelium-based acoustic panels. The work is exhibited inside the iconic Halles Barrouin, as part of a central curatorial project led by Laurence Salmon and co-curated by nine prominent voices in contemporary design, including Isabelle Daëron, Philippe Rahm, Marlène Huissoud, Sylvia Fredriksson, Étienne Mineur, and natacha.sacha. The scenographic design is by Joachim Jirou-Najou, who ensures curatorial cohesion across the exhibition journey.
📍 Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Étienne
📌 Halles Barrouin – Exhibition “Ressource(s), présager demain”
🗓 April 25 – July 6, 2025
A Dialogue Between Living Matter, Aesthetics, and Performance
Mogu’s presence within Ressource(s) contributes to a broader reflection on the role of design in an era marked by scarcity, ecological crisis, and systemic uncertainty. In this context, Mogu’s materials offer a tangible and radical response to the urgent need to rethink how we design, produce, and inhabit our spaces.
PLUMA is a collection of ultra-lightweight acoustic panels, created by growing selected strains of mycelium on engineered substrates made from agro-industrial residues. The result is a collection of panels that are 100% plastic-free, biodegradable, and high-performing in terms of sound absorption, while also offering a unique and expressive aesthetic language.
Far from passive decoration, these panels embody a vision of interiors not as spaces to dominate, but as ecosystems to participate in. A new materiality emerges: one that is sensitive, circular, and rooted in the rhythms of the Earth.
This immersive and visually impactful installation allows visitors to experience not only the technical benefits of mycelium materials but also their narrative power: mycelium becomes both medium and message, symbolizing a regenerative material approach that reintegrates itself into nature’s cycles while expanding the possibilities of contemporary design.
About ressource(s) présager demain
Immersed in an era where things feel like they are shifting, an era marked by the depletion and impending exhaustion of certain resources, by the now palpable reality of climate change and growing doubts about some of our modern certainties, designers feel “unsettled”, and that is leading them to question what they do and how they do it.
The Ressource(s), présager demain exhibition carries the theme of this 13th edition of the Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Étienne. It has been designed as a choral exhibition around the central figure of the designer. It gives a platform to nine designers invited to curate a section of the exhibition so that each one of them can, through their selection, put across their point of view.
Nine sections, like so many chapters on the subject of resources – Déjà-là, Terres promises, Le devenir industriel, Minimum / Maximum, En mode hybride, Créer avec l’IA, Le design des communs, Design climatique, Les autres vivants – which identify and question the means of action that design draws on in the face of a reassessment of the methods of production and consumption in world in ecological debt.
The multiplicity of the projects brought together by the designers-curators, means that this exhibition becomes a “deposit of ideas and projects”. Designer Joachim Jirou-Najou’s scenography provides consistency between the visitor path and the programming, while highlighting the projects and positions.
📍 Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Étienne
📌 Halles Barrouin – Exhibition “Ressource(s), présager demain”
🗓 April 25 – July 6, 2025