Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan by Yiru Wang

Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan by Yiru Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Gangsa in Seni Rupa Competition Category.

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Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan

by Yiru Wang

Client: SaturnVII Studio

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Seni Rupa Category

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The Design

About Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan

Teks Buku: Elysium Echoes adolah instalasi seni baputa nan mangaja hubungan antaro parubahan lingkungan jo kalangsungan hiduik manusia. Karya ko dibuek dari resin, logam, sarato akrilik, jo bagian-bagian nan dicetak tigo dimensi (3D) sarato motor baputa, jo ukuran 45 kali 45 kali 50 sentimeter. Tigo bagian mancaminkan bantuak manusia, bantuak transisi, sarato bantuak pasca-manusia. Putaran nan taruih manaruih ko mangacaukan sarato manggabungkan baliak tahap-tahap ko untuak manggambarkan pagaseran evolusi. Instalasi ko mangajak urang untuak marenuangkan tantang teknologi, ekologi, sarato masa depan umat manusia.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. Elysium Echoes Fungsi Utama: Instalasi Seni Kontemporer nan Bisa Dipindahkan mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso 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