Cyborg Rainbow Bitxigintza by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award in Bitxigintza Diseinua Competition Category.

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Cyborg Rainbow Bitxigintza

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Bitxigintza Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Bitxigintza

Rosi Braidotti eta Donna Haraway bezalako filosofoen ideietatik abiatuta, proiektu honek pop kulturako Cyborg eta Cyber-punk elementuak erabiltzen ditu bilduma super surrealista hau eraikitzeko. Industrialki ekoizitako materialen erabilera malguari esker, proiektu honetako piezak erabat ordezkagarriak diren osagaiz eraikita daude, eta horrek erabiltzaileei aukera ematen die bitxiak ordezkatzeko eta are birmoldatzeko "chip eta barra" ordezkoen bitartez. Bilduma honek testuinguru bat sortu nahi du, non erabiltzaileak giza osteko etorkizun fantastiko bat esperimentatu ahal izango duen, generoari eta identitateari buruzko ikuspegi tradizionala hautsi ahal izateko.

The Recognition

About the Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award

Cyborg Rainbow Bitxigintza Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, ondo diseinatutako sorkuntzetatik espero diren eskakizun profesional eta industrialak betetzen dituzten diseinu onei ematen zaien aitorpen prestijiotsua. Burdin-mailako irabazleek beren sortzaileen trebetasun handia, espezializazio handia, adituen ulermena eta sormen-gaitasuna erakusten dituzte. Cyborg Rainbow Bitxigintza oso estimatua, miretsia eta maitea den sorkuntza izatea espero da, praktikoa eta berritzailea dena. Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu honek sektoreko praktika onenak integratzen ditu eta know-how-ari eta talentuari lotutako ezaugarri tekniko gaituak ditu. Cyborg Rainbow Bitxigintza zehaztasunagatik errespetatua den lana da, eta mundua leku hobea egiten laguntzen duten bizi-kalitatearen hobekuntzak eskaintzeko diseinatua dagoena.

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.