Originally from the West Indies and living in Reunion Island since 2016, Johanna Grégoire is a designer-researcher. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts d'Angers and the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she designs objects with limited resources, embodying cultural and social practices.
She co-wrote The Illustrated Manual of Urban DIY before founding the SUPER association, specializing in upcycling. In Reunion Island, she focuses her research on sugarcane, a symbolic material and living memory, which she explores through residencies and collaborations with scientific laboratories and local artisans. She extracts materials, fibers, and sensitive narratives from it to interrogate colonial history and Creole imaginations. Her works—such as Bagasse, Graminée, and Bagapan—use extraction, agglomeration, caning, and crystallization processes. Her experimental projects link narratives, uses, and materialities to develop a "creole creative thinking" rooted in the economic, identity, and social realities of the region.
She sees the role of the designer as a conduit of forms and languages, reviving practices rather than reinventing them. Currently supported by the CNAP (National Center for Cultural Heritage), she is preparing a residency in Martinique in 2025 and an exhibition at the Maison & Objet fair in Paris in 2026.
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