Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware by Dian Chen

Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Yster in Juweliersontwerp Competition Category.

YsterJuweliersware· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

A' Design Award in Yster Winner in Juweliersware Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware

Geïnspireer deur filosowe soos Rosi Braidotti en Donna Haraway, gebruik hierdie projek Cyborg- en Cyber-punk-elemente in popkultuur om hierdie hoogs surrealistiese reeks te konstrueer. Met 'n buigsame aanvaarding van industrieel vervaardigde materiale, word die stukke in hierdie projek volledig uit uitruilbare dele saamgestel, wat draers toelaat om die juweliersware te vervang en selfs te hermaak deur gebruik te maak van al daardie spaar "skyfies en stawe". Hierdie versameling beoog om 'n konteks te skep waarin die draer 'n fantasie-post-menslike toekoms kan ervaar om die tradisionele persepsie van geslag en identiteit te deurbreek.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Yster

Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Yster, 'n prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan goeie ontwerpe wat voldoen aan die professionele en industriële vereistes wat van goed ontwerpte skeppings verwag word. Wenners in Yster toon groot vaardigheid, hoë spesialisasie, kundige begrip en die kreatiewe vermoë van hul skeppers. Daar word verwag dat Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware 'n hoog aangeskrewe, bewonderde en gekoesterde skepping is wat prakties en innoverend is. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Yster gewen het, integreer die beste praktyke in die bedryf en het bekwame tegniese kenmerke gekoppel aan kundigheid en talent. Cyborg Rainbow Juweliersware word gerespekteer vir sy deeglikheid en is ontwerp om verbeterings in lewensgehalte te bied wat help om die wêreld 'n beter plek te maak.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This project is a participatory piece which basic frames and interchangeable spare-parts are manufactured using industrial materials, like aluminum, acrylic, stainless steel. That allows the wearers to replace and even remake the jewellery using all those spare "chips and bars". In this process of self-controlled changing and overall infinity of possibilities, Dian intends to construct a context in which the wearer can, not only wear but can also participate and experience a fluid relationship between body, objects, and identity. It now a materialized imagination, it might be material experience in an expectable future.
Dimensions & Packaging: Necklace: 270* 60* 280mm.
Tags: Posthuman, Cyborg, Science Fiction, Participation, Gender, Identity, Fantasy
Production Technology: Materials: electroplated copper, aluminum alloy, acrylic, stainless steel, rubber, latex.
Design Challenge: The main challenge in her project is to materialize cyborg and posthuman theories not only in the "object" that she designed but how it can create an ongoing and firsthand experience to her customers.
Research: Dian combined desktop research and practice as research in her project. Particularly, theories about Post-humanism and themes of science fiction and pop-culture were studied, then she embody her research enquiries in her design practice and the final product as a materialized exploration of cyborg theory that she researched.
Inspiration: Informed by philosophers like Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, Dian developed a deep interest in approaching gender identity issues through the concepts of the post-humanism, cyborg, cyber-punk and science fictions in pop culture to construct the super surreal series to discuss the question of fluidity of gender and identity in post-human age.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2018 in London and finished in April 2019 in London, and was exhibited in Central Saint Martins in June 2019 and AN+ ART and Design Museum in March to June 2020.
Operation Flow: This series of jewellery uses interchangeable parts to create imaginations and experiences of cyber-organic science fiction.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.