Cyborg Rainbow مجوهرات by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية in تصميم المجوهرات Competition Category.

حديدالمجوهرات· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow مجوهرات

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية Winner in المجوهرات Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow مجوهرات

مستوحى من أفكار فلاسفة مثل روزي برايدوتي ودونا هاراواي، يستخدم هذا المشروع عناصر السايبورغ والسايبربانك من الثقافة الشعبية لبناء هذه السلسلة الفائقة السريالية. من خلال التبني المرن للمواد الصناعية المُصنّعة، تم بناء القطع في هذا المشروع بالكامل من أجزاء قابلة للتبديل، مما يتيح لمرتديها استبدال بل وإعادة صنع المجوهرات باستخدام جميع تلك "الرقائق والقضبان" الاحتياطية. تهدف هذه المجموعة إلى بناء سياق يمكن فيه لمرتديها تجربة مستقبل ما بعد إنساني خيالي لكسر التصورات التقليدية للجنس والهوية.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية

Cyborg Rainbow مجوهرات هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الحديدية، وهي تقدير مرموق يُمنح للتصاميم الجيدة التي تلبّي المتطلبات المهنية والصناعية المنتظرة من الإبداعات حسنة التصميم. ويُظهر الفائزون بالحديدية مهارة كبيرة وتخصصًا عاليًا وفهمًا خبيرًا وقدرة إبداعية لدى صنّاعهم. ويُتوقع أن يكون Cyborg Rainbow مجوهرات إبداعًا عالي التقدير ومحل إعجاب وحب، عمليًا ومبتكرًا. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الحديدية يدمج أفضل ممارسات القطاع، وله خصائص تقنية كفؤة ترتبط بالدراية والموهبة. ويحظى Cyborg Rainbow مجوهرات بالاحترام لدقته، وقد صُمّم لتقديم تحسينات لجودة الحياة تساعد على جعل العالم مكانًا أفضل.

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.