Cyborg Rainbow Perhiasan by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Beusi in Perhiasan Competition Category.

BeusiPerhiasan· 2021

Cyborg Rainbow Perhiasan

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

A' Design Award Beusi Winner in Perhiasan Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Perhiasan

Diideuan ku filsuf sapertos Rosi Braidotti sareng Donna Haraway, proyék ieu ngagunakeun unsur-unsur Cyborg sareng Cyber-punk dina budaya pop pikeun ngawangun séri super surreal ieu. Kalayan panggunaan bahan industrial anu fleksibel, karya-karya dina proyék ieu lengkep diwangun ku bagian-bagian anu tiasa diganti, anu ngamungkinkeun pamakéna pikeun ngaganti bahkan ngadamel deui perhiasan nganggo sadaya "chip sareng bar" cadangan éta. Koléksi ieu dimaksudkeun pikeun ngawangun kontéks dimana pamakéna tiasa ngalaman fantasi masa depan post-human pikeun ngarobih persépsi tradisional ngeunaan gender sareng identitas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Beusi

Cyborg Rainbow Perhiasan mangrupa juara A' Design Award Beusi, pangakuan anu bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain alus anu minuhan sarat profésional jeung industri anu diharepkeun tina kréasi anu dirarancang alus. Para juara Beusi nunjukkeun kaahlian anu hébat, spésialisasi anu luhur, pamahaman ahli jeung kamampuh kréatif para kréatorna. Cyborg Rainbow Perhiasan diharepkeun jadi kréasi anu dihargaan, dikagumi jeung dipikanyaah anu praktis jeung inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Beusi ieu ngalebetkeun prakték pangalusna industri sarta ngabogaan ciri téknis anu mampuh pakait jeung pangweruh praktis jeung bakat. Cyborg Rainbow Perhiasan dihormat pikeun katelitianana sarta dirarancang pikeun méré paningkatan kualitas hirup anu mantuan ngajadikeun dunya tempat nu leuwih hadé.

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.