A tool to help shipwrecked people, offering a safe place to climb onto life rafts. This is the project for which 24-year-old Jari Lunghi, from Romagna, in addition to earning a bachelor's degree in Design from the University of the Republic of San Marino, was awarded the Targa Giovani (Youth Award) on June 20th during the awards ceremony for the 25th Compasso d'Oro, the annual event with which the Association for Industrial Design celebrates and highlights the best of Italian design.
In the photo, from left: student Jari Lunghi, the ADI representative, teachers Alessandra Bosco and Riccardo Varini.
The project, called "Caronte" and awarded in the Cortile della Rocchetta of the Sforza Castle in Milan, consists of an inflatable net that, when stretched out over the water, offers a handhold for shipwrecked people. Thanks to its characteristic mesh structure, it also provides a means of climbing onto the life raft. If an unconscious shipwrecked person is placed supine on the net, those already aboard the raft can hoist them up and roll them into the net.
"Our faculty and students have received a prestigious award thanks to a project on migrants that represents a solution to a problem facing disadvantaged populations and today takes on a great, splendid significance," commented the Rector of the University of San Marino, Corrado Petrocelli. "In this dark and inhumane period, there is a ray of light, and it comes from a university. I am proud of our students and their teachers."
“Caronte”, a project by Jari Lunghi, winner of the Targa Giovani award.