Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai by Dian Chen

Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Rino in Hoahoa Whakakai Competition Category.

RinoWhakakai· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

A' Design Award Rino Winner in Whakakai Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai

I ārahi i te mahi nei e ngā kaimātai whakaaro pērā i a Rosi Braidotti me Donna Haraway, ka whakamahi tēnei kaupapa i ngā āhuatanga Cyborg me Cyber-punk i roto i te ahurea rongonui hei hanga i tēnei rārangi tino haurangi. Mā te whakamahi ngāwari i ngā rawa hanga ahumahi, kua hangaia ngā mea whakapaipai o tēnei kaupapa ki ngā wāhanga whakawhiti katoa, ka taea e ngā kaiwhakamau te whakahou, te hanga anō hoki i ngā taonga whakapaipai mā aua "tīpa me ngā pae" toenga katoa. E whai ana tēnei kohinga ki te hanga horopaki hei wheako mā te kaiwhakamau i tētahi moemoea āpōpō tūmārō-tangata hei wāhi i te tirohanga tuku iho o te ira tangata me te tuakiri.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Rino

Ko Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai te toa o te A' Design Award Rino, he whakaaetanga whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa pai e whakatutuki ana i ngā hiahia ngaio me te ahumahi e tūmanakohia ana mai i ngā mahi kua hoahoatia pai. Ko ngā toa Rino e whakaatu ana i te pukenga nui, te tohungatanga teitei, te māramatanga mātanga me te kaha auaha o ō rātou kaihanga. E tūmanakohia ana ko Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai he mahi whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he whaihua, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Rino e whakakotahi ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa o te ahumahi, ā, he āhuatanga hangarau pūkenga tōna e hono ana ki te mōhio me te pūmanawa. E whakahonoretia ana a Cyborg Rainbow Taonga Whakapaipai mō tōna tōtika, ā, i hoahoatia hei whakapai ake i te kounga o te oranga me te āwhina i te ao kia pai ake.

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.