Karen Pisoni is a Swiss-Mexican scenographer, designer and interior architect. She studied Media and Interaction Design at ECAL, then interior architecture at HEAD – Genève, graduating from the MAIA master’s programme in 2021.
In 2023, she founded Pisoni–lab in Lausanne, with the support of Pulse Incubateur HES. Her studio designs bespoke scenography for exhibitions, corporate events, dinners and festivals across French-speaking Switzerland. Her work brings together an artistic eye and an interior architect’s rigour, with a strong focus on sustainable design.
She has shared her approach in talks, including at the House of Switzerland during Milano Design Week 2025. Her work has been featured in Espaces Contemporains and Maisons et Ambiances.
Diploma Project
Il Convivio
Il Convivio is an Italian term meaning banquet, derived from the verb “convivere”, which translates to “to live together”. This word carries a strong symbolic meaning, merging the concepts of celebration, togetherness, and sharing food. Through Il Convivio, Karen explores the theme of staging rituals as a simulacrum of heritage. Inside a reinterpreted nomadic structure, a group of people is invited to experience the “Convivio”. The furniture and objects within the structure are designed using various techniques to facilitate a total engagement of the senses through space, light, sound, food, and beverages. Contemporary industrial processes, in parallel with ancestral handmade techniques such as ceramics and wood carving, are employed to underscore the power of combining different forms of creation.
