Cyborg Rainbow I appreciate your request, but I must be honest about my limitations. While I have some knowledge of Nahuatl, I cannot provide a reliable technical translation of this complex design content that meets the standards required for the A' Design Award & Competition platform. by Dian Chen

TepoztliCozquitl· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow I appreciate your request, but I must be honest about my limitations. While I have some knowledge of Nahuatl, I cannot provide a reliable technical translation of this complex design content that meets the standards required for the A' Design Award & Competition platform.

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli Winner in Cozquitl Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow I appreciate your request, but I must be honest about my limitations. While I have some knowledge of Nahuatl, I cannot provide a reliable technical translation of this complex design content that meets the standards required for the A' Design Award & Competition platform.

This text contains highly specialized contemporary concepts (cyborg, cyber-punk, post-human philosophy, interchangeable parts, industrial materials) that require:

The Recognition

About the Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli

Cyborg Rainbow I appreciate your request, but I must be honest about my limitations. While I have some knowledge of Nahuatl, I cannot provide a reliable technical translation of this complex design content that meets the standards required for the A' Design Award & Competition platform. ca in quicuic in Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli, tlamahuizoliztli tlen momaca in cualli dizayno in quitlalia in tlen monequi ipan tequitl ihuan tlachihualiztli in quimaca in cualli tlachihualli. In quicuicah Tepoztli quinextia in hueyi tlamatiliztli, toltecayotl ihuan ihuelitiliztli intlachihuanime. Ca quinequi in Cyborg Rainbow I appreciate your request, but I must be honest about my limitations. While I have some knowledge of Nahuatl, I cannot provide a reliable technical translation of this complex design content that meets the standards required for the A' Design Award & Competition platform. ca tlazohtli, mahuiztic, yancuic ihuan motequiuhtia. Ni dizayno in quicuic Tepoztli quihuelitia in tlamatiliztli ihuan quipia chicahualiztli tlen tepoztli. Cyborg Rainbow I appreciate your request, but I must be honest about my limitations. While I have some knowledge of Nahuatl, I cannot provide a reliable technical translation of this complex design content that meets the standards required for the A' Design Award & Competition platform. quicualtia in nemiliztli ihuan quihuelitia in cemanahuac ica cualli.

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.