Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan by Yiru Wang

Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan by Yiru Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Perunggu in Desain Seni Rupa dan Instalasi Seni Competition Category.

PerungguSeni Rupa· 2025

Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan

by Yiru Wang

Client: SaturnVII Studio

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Seni Rupa Category

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The Design

About Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan

Elysium Echoes adalah instalasi seni berputar yang mengeksplorasi hubungan antara perubahan lingkungan dan kelangsungan hidup manusia. Karya ini terbuat dari resin, logam, dan akrilik, dengan bagian-bagian hasil cetak tiga dimensi serta motor pemutar, dan berukuran 45 kali 45 kali 50 sentimeter. Tiga bagian mewakili bentuk manusia, transisi, dan pasca-manusia. Putaran yang berkesinambungan mengganggu dan menyusun ulang tahapan-tahapan ini untuk menyiratkan pergeseran evolusi. Instalasi ini mengajak perenungan tentang teknologi, ekologi, dan masa depan umat manusia.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain luar biasa yang dicirikan oleh kreativitas, kecerdikan, dan ketajaman. Pemenang Perunggu adalah artefak yang sangat terampil dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imajinasi, dan kelihaian para desainernya. Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ini menyertakan praktik terbaik dalam seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi, dan sangat baik dalam perhatiannya pada detail. Elysium Echoes Instalasi Seni Kontemporer yang Dapat Digerakkan memuaskan kebutuhan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan, dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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