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IED x CNH: four visions of the future presented under the stars of the Planetarium of Turin
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11 December 2025
At the Planetarium of Turin, students from the Master in Transportation Design at IED Torino presented four concepts developed in collaboration with CNH Industrial, envisioning machines and infrastructures capable of cultivating, building, and making extraterrestrial environments habitable. Under the planetarium’s starry dome, Heart Core, Moon Hive, Gaia, and Ember demonstrated how design can explore unconventional scenarios and translate them into feasible solutions for some of the key challenges of space exploration: producing food, extracting resources, experimenting with forms of terraforming, and creating systems able to operate without air, water, or protection.
The projects investigated technologies and processes applicable to the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies, envisioning pressurised greenhouses capable of sustaining stable crops, the use of lunar or Martian soil as a construction material, autonomous fleets coordinated by intelligent networks, and systems dedicated to studying and transforming hostile environments. Each concept contributed to outlining a potential operational ecosystem for future missions and human settlements.
The collaboration between IED and CNH Industrial offered students the opportunity to engage with complex scenarios, turning the presentation into a laboratory of future thinking and inviting the audience to look beyond Earth’s horizon.
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