Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna by Dian Chen

Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Fierru Premiu in Walka Kamay Competition Category.

FierruWalka· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

A' Design Award Fierru Premiu Winner in Walka Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna

Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway yachay yachaqkunap yachayninkumanta qhatispa, kay llamk'ayqa Cyborg, Cyber-punk nisqa pop culturapi kaq elementokunawan kay ancha musphaypa hina seriestaqa hatarichin. Fábricapi rurasqa materialeskunata allinmanta llamk'achispa, kay quri iskukunaqa llapanta tikranakuq rakinakunawan ruwasqa kanku, chaywanmi churaqkunaqa tikraytapas, wakmanta ruraytatapas atinku chay 'chips, bars' nisqawan. Kay huñuqa munan huk contextota ruwayta maypichus churaqqa musquyniyuq runaq qhipanpa hamuq pachata yachayta atinman, chaynapi ñawpaqmanta ima qhari-warmimanta, pipas kasqankumantawan yachayta pakikunankupaq.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Fierru Premiu

Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna A' Design Award Fierru Premiu mishak kan, yupaychay, kayta ruray yachak shinallatak industriapak mañaykunata paktachik alli diseñukunaman kun. Fierru mishak kashkakunaka hatun ruray ushayta, hanak yachayta, yachak yuyayta shinallatak ruray kamachiyta rikuchinku. Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna sinchi yupaychashka, kuyashka shinallatak kuyashka ruray, ruranapak alli shinallatak mushuk yuyaypi kanata munanku. Kay Fierru Premiu japishka diseñuka industriapak ashtawan alli ruraykunata tantachin shinallatak yachaywan shinallatak ushaywan tantashka tekniku ushayta charin. Sinchi ruraymanta Cyborg Rainbow Quri Iskukuna yupaychashka kan shinallatak kawsayta alliyachik ruraykunata kuypak ruray kan, pachata ashtawan alli kachun ruran.

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.