Elysium Echoes Instalación de Arte Contemporáneo Móbil by Yiru Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Belas Artes e Instalacións Artísticas Competition Category.
BronceBelas Artes· 2025
Elysium Echoes Instalación de Arte Contemporáneo Móbil
by Yiru Wang
Client: SaturnVII Studio
A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Belas Artes Category
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The Design
About Elysium Echoes Instalación de Arte Contemporáneo Móbil
Elysium Echoes é unha instalación artística rotatoria que explora a relación entre o cambio ambiental e a supervivencia humana. A obra está feita de resina, metal e acrílico, con pezas impresas tridimensionalmente e un motor rotatorio, e mide 45 por 45 por 50 centímetros. Tres seccións representan formas humanas, transicionais e posthumanas. A rotación continua perturba e recombina estas etapas para suxerir cambios evolutivos. A instalación convida á reflexión sobre a tecnoloxía, a ecoloxía e o futuro da humanidade.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Bronce
Elysium Echoes Instalación de Arte Contemporáneo Móbil gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Elysium Echoes Instalación de Arte Contemporáneo Móbil sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Elysium Echoes Instalación de Arte Contemporáneo Móbil satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Elysium Echoes explores the complex relationship between environmental change and human survival in a post-humanist era. It examines how humanity's evolving bond with the environment is influenced by the balance between technological progress and ecological sustainability.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 45*45*50cm
- Tags
- 3D Printing, Art Installation, Interdisciplinary Art, FutureEcology, ContemporaryTechArt
- Production Technology
- Rotating Motor, 3D Printing, Resin, Metal, Acrylic
- Design Challenge
- Elysium Echoes deconstructs the complex bond between humans and nature, prompting reflection on technological progress and its impact on life and evolution. As humanity's influence grows, a crucial question arises: should we reshape nature in the name of technology? Though the "post-human era" remains uncertain, it echoes a warning—our pursuit to replace the Creator may not unfold as envisioned.
- Research
- This research uses a speculative, practice-led approach to explore how technological progress reshapes humanity’s relationship with nature in the Anthropocene. Grounded in post-humanist theory, it critiques ethical ambiguities of ecological intervention and envisions alternative evolutionary paths. Through immersive installation art, kinetic prototyping, and participatory observation, a rotating structure (human/transitional/post-human) simulates evolutionary disruption. Data from 87 interviews, audience analytics, and impact simulations reveal a tension between techno-optimism and ecological humility, with 73% reconsidering humanity’s stewardship. The work advocates for ethical, interdisciplinary governance and positions design as a mediator between science and societal values.
- Inspiration
- In the post-human era, I explore how shifting environments and productivity levels shape human gene selection. Technological progress aids adaptation, yet sudden ecological upheaval risks collapsing our systems, regressing productivity and forcing genetic adaptation to dominate survival. Here, mutation emerges as life’s most reliable tool.
- Project Duration
- London Design Week 14–21 September 2024
Dutch Design Week 19–27 October 2024 - Operation Flow
- This dynamic installation explores biodiversity and evolution in the transition from humans to post-humans. Comprising three parts—human, transitional forms, and post-human—it rotates continuously, disrupting and recombining stages to simulate evolutionary shifts and new species. The work challenges biological boundaries and provokes thought on evolution, technology, and humanity’s future.
- Team Members
- YIRU WANG
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