Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel by Yiru Wang

Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel by Yiru Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Belas-Artes e Instalações Artísticas Competition Category.

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Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel

by Yiru Wang

Client: SaturnVII Studio

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Belas-Artes Category

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The Design

About Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel

Elysium Echoes é uma instalação artística rotativa que explora a relação entre a mudança ambiental e a sobrevivência humana. A obra é feita de resina, metal e acrílico, com peças impressas em três dimensões e um motor rotativo, e mede 45 por 45 por 50 centímetros. Três secções representam formas humanas, transicionais e pós-humanas. A rotação contínua desagrega e recombina estas etapas, sugerindo transformações evolutivas. A instalação convida à reflexão sobre a tecnologia, a ecologia e o futuro da humanidade.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel conquistou o A' Design Award de Bronze, um reconhecimento altamente prestigiado atribuído a designs notáveis que se distinguem pela criatividade, engenho e perspicácia. Os vencedores do Bronze são artefactos amplamente habilidosos e surpreendentemente criativos que comprovam a vasta experiência, imaginação e capacidade de iniciativa dos seus designers. Espera-se que Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel seja um objeto muito considerado, admirado e estimado, notavelmente profissional e inovador. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora as melhores práticas em arte, ciência, design e tecnologia e é excelente pela sua atenção ao detalhe. Elysium Echoes Instalação de Arte Contemporânea Móvel satisfaz esplendidamente necessidades, toca desejos, encanta sentimentos e desperta curiosidade.

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