How can semi-industrial coffee harvesting be approached? What are the constraints and potential of small-scale cultivation, dealing with high altitudes and steep slopes? These are the premises of a challenge that CNH Industrial, with the collaboration of Lavazza, set to the students of the last year of the Master in Transportation Design IED Turin: to design the coffee harvester of the future. The eighteen students, assisted by David Wilkie and Guido Bianco of CNH Industrial Design and Florian Seidl, Lavazza’s Design Manager, were divided into six teams and created six advanced design projects.
How can semi-industrial coffee harvesting be approached? What are the constraints and potential of small-scale cultivation, dealing with high altitudes and steep slopes? These are the premises of a challenge that CNH Industrial, with the collaboration of Lavazza, set to the students of the last year of the Master in Transportation Design IED Turin: to design the coffee harvester of the future. The eighteen students, assisted by David Wilkie and Guido Bianco of CNH Industrial Design and Florian Seidl, Lavazza’s Design Manager, were divided into six teams and created six advanced design projects.
“For well-established realities such as CNH Industrial and Lavazza, the possibility of meeting, in a mutual exchange of knowledge and needs, in a creative environment such as IED, has allowed a free opening of thought to embrace the technical-stylistic and formal research of new objects that look to the future, without forgetting their origins and tradition,” says Michele Albera, Coordinator of the Transportation Design Area at IED Turin.
The technical level and creative vivacity of the students pleasantly impressed the companies involved who, among all the proposals, declared the Tazzina project, by Siddhant Sanjeev Aggarwal, Yung-Chun Hsu and Antonio Mazza, the winner. CNH Industrial decided to purchase all the IED students’ projects.
The projects were realised by the students of the Master in Transportation Design IED Turin a.a. 2021/22: Siddhant Sanjeev Aggarwal (India), Samuel Aguilar Martin (Spain), William Barbosa Gomez (Colombia), Yawei Fu (China), Augusto Patrick Fuchs (Switzerland), Samarth Handa (India), Yung-Chun Hsu (Taiwan), Ram Komawar (India), Vincenzo Dimitrios Lamattina (Italy), Huyang Liu (China), Antonio Mazza (Italy), Jason George Pereira (India), Singh Rohit (India), Andrea Saba (Italy), Manoj Sunderrajulu (India), Stefan Syarov (Bulgaria), Xiao Wang (China), Shengjia Zhang (China).
