Cyborg Rainbow ジュエリー by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in ジュエリーデザイン Competition Category.

鉄ジュエリー· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow ジュエリー

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in ジュエリー Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow ジュエリー

ロージ・ブライドッティやダナ・ハラウェイといった哲学者から示唆を得て、本プロジェクトはポップカルチャーにおけるサイボーグとサイバーパンクの要素を用いて、極めて超現実的なシリーズを構築しています。工業製造材料を柔軟に採用し、このプロジェクトの作品は完全に交換可能なパーツで構成されており、装着者はこれらの予備「チップとバー」を使用してジュエリーを交換、さらには再制作することが可能です。このコレクションは、装着者がポストヒューマンの未来というファンタジーを体験し、ジェンダーとアイデンティティに関する伝統的認識を打ち破るコンテクストの構築を意図しています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Cyborg Rainbow ジュエリーは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Cyborg Rainbow ジュエリーは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Cyborg Rainbow ジュエリーは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

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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.