Cyborg Rainbow Dithulwana by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Mekgabiso Competition Category.

TšepeMekgabiso· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow Dithulwana

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Mekgabiso Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Dithulwana

E tlhomilwe ke dinahanwa tsa borafilosofi ba jwalo ka Rosi Braidotti le Donna Haraway, morero ona o sebedisa dintlha tsa Cyborg le Cyber-punk mo setsong se ratwang ho aha letoto lena le lekanang haholo. Ka tshebediso e bonolo ya didiriso tse hlahisitsweng ke intasteri, dintho tsena di ahilwe ka ho fetisisa ka dikarolo tse ka fetolwanang, e leng se lumellang ba di aparang ho nkela le ho etsa hape dithulwana ka ho sebedisa tsohle tseo di 'chips le dibara' tse setseng. Pokeletso ena e ikemiseditse ho aha moelelo oo moo ba di aparang ba ka itemohela pono ya bokamoso ba ka mora botho ho senya pono ya setso ya bong le boitsebiso.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Cyborg Rainbow Dithulwana ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Cyborg Rainbow Dithulwana e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Cyborg Rainbow Dithulwana e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

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.