Edited by Nicola Carbonara
It was November 2020 and we had left with an unusual edition of the Master in Car Design. The country's lockdown meant that, after a brief period of suspension, education resumed with the widespread and now well-known 'DAD'.
In May a year later, the course resumed in its online version but fortunately managed to conclude in presence, after 48 intensive hours on the Italian Design Instituteas is customary at the MAUTO, The National Automobile Museum of Turinwhich was founded in 1932 and houses more than 150 original cars of 80 different makes from the mid-19th century to the present day.
The students under the guidance of Marco Amadio, lecturer at La Sapienza faculty in the degree course in Industrial Design and Designer for Transportation Design and Automotive Industries, e Maurizio Corbi for over twenty-five years Senior Car Designer at PininfarinaOnce the theoretical phase is over, they split into groups and begin the design phase that will keep them busy developing a project focused on 'a car of the future' with an eye on the past, but not too much, taking as an example the historic berlinette, a car with a typically sporty connotation, adopted by many car manufacturers. Among the classic berlinette racing cars of the past, the most famous include the 1973 Ferrari 512 BB or the 1985 288 GTO, the latter one of the most famous and desired Ferraris.
At the conclusion of the planning phase, on 5 March 2022, the class met at the Ferrari Museum in Modena, another museum complex of excellence with the aim of highlighting the area's motoring tradition dedicated to the figure of Enzo Ferrari. This is where the Take off Day, final event of the course, which, thanks to the quality jury composed of the lecturers Marco Amadio and Maurizio Corbitogether with Andrea Mocellin, Transportation Designer and Marco Rogolino Designer and ModellerAfter evaluating all project work presentations, declared the two young trainees as winners Maurizio Zaffino and Stefano Pannella with the project Ferrari Renaissance.
