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Maurizio Montalti
Co-founder, Designer, Researcher, Director R&D Mogu
Speech title
RADICAL by Nature
Job Profile
Maurizio has been one of the early pioneers committed to studying and to developing a range of mycelium-based technologies, for the production of natural biomaterials and products. Starting growing materials as part of his creative design-research practice Officina Corpuscoli (NL) and working at the junction of design and biotech, he later co-founded Mogu, an innovation-driven, environmentally-conscious company, dedicated to developing, designing, scaling and commercializing different typologies of biomaterials deriving from fungi. Maurizio’s work has been honored with multiple prestigious awards, featured widely in the media and exhibited globally in the most noticeable muses and institutions.