Cyborg Rainbow Schmuck by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Eisen in Schmuckdesign Competition Category.
EisenSchmuck· 2021
Cyborg Rainbow Schmuck
by Dian Chen
Client: Dian Chen
A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Schmuck Category
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About Cyborg Rainbow Schmuck
Inspiriert von Philosophinnen wie Rosi Braidotti und Donna Haraway nutzt dieses Projekt Cyborg- und Cyberpunk-Elemente der Popkultur, um diese höchst surreale Serie zu konstruieren. Durch die flexible Verwendung industriell gefertigter Materialien sind die Stücke dieses Projekts vollständig aus austauschbaren Teilen konstruiert, die es den Trägern ermöglichen, den Schmuck mithilfe all dieser Ersatz-„Chips und Stäbe" zu ersetzen und sogar neu zu gestalten. Diese Kollektion beabsichtigt, einen Kontext zu schaffen, in dem der Träger eine fantastische posthumane Zukunft erleben kann, um traditionelle Wahrnehmungen von Geschlecht und Identität aufzubrechen.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award in Eisen
Cyborg Rainbow Schmuck ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Cyborg Rainbow Schmuck wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Cyborg Rainbow Schmuck wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.
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.
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