Cyborg Rainbow Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́ by Dian Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Irin A' Design Award in Àpẹẹrẹ Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́ Ara Competition Category.

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Cyborg Rainbow Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́

by Dian Chen

Client: Dian Chen

Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Irin A' Design Award Winner in Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́ Ara Category

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The Design

About Cyborg Rainbow Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́

Nípa tí ó gbà ìmọ̀ràn látí ọ̀dọ̀ àwọn ọlọ́gbọ́n bíi Rosi Braidotti àti Donna Haraway, iṣẹ́-ọwọ́ yìí lo àwọn ẹ̀rọ Cyborg àti Cyber-punk nínú àṣà olókìkí láti ṣe àgbékalẹ̀ jàrà àìyérawé nlá yìí. Pẹ̀lú gbígba àwọn ohun èlò tí ilé-iṣẹ́ ṣe ní ọ̀nà tó rọrùn, àwọn ẹ̀yà nínú iṣẹ́-ọwọ́ yìí jẹ́ kíkọ́ pátápátá nípa àwọn ẹ̀yà tí ó lè páàrọ̀, tí ó fún àwọn olùwọ̀ láàyè láti rọ́pò àti pààpàá tún ṣe ohun ọ̀ṣọ́ náà nípa lílo gbogbo àwọn "chips àti bars" tí ó kù. Àkójọpọ̀ yìí ní èrò láti ṣe àgbékalẹ̀ ipò kan nínú èyí tí olùwọ̀ lè ní ìrírí ọjọ́ ìwájú lẹ́yìn ènìyàn tí ìtàn-àròsọ láti fọ́ ìmọ̀ràn ìbílẹ̀ nípa abo-ọkùnrin àti ìdánimọ̀.

The Recognition

About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Irin A' Design Award

Cyborg Rainbow Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́ jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Irin A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ olókìkí tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe tó dára tí wọ́n pàdé àwọn ohun tí iṣẹ́ àti ilé-iṣẹ́ nílò tí a retí láti ọ̀dọ̀ àwọn ẹ̀dá tí a ṣàwòṣe dáradára. Àwọn olùborí Irin ń fi ìjáfáfá ńlá, ìmọ̀ pàtó gíga, òye ògbóǹtarìgì àti agbára ìṣẹ̀dá àwọn olùṣẹ̀dá wọn hàn. A retí pé Cyborg Rainbow Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́ yóò jẹ́ ẹ̀dá tí a kà sí gidigidi, tí a gbóríyìn fún tí a sì nífẹ̀ẹ́, tó wúlò tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Irin A' Design Award yìí ń kó àwọn ọ̀nà tó dára jùlọ ilé-iṣẹ́ jọ, ó sì ní àwọn ànímọ́ ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ tó péye tí a so mọ́ ìmọ̀ ṣíṣe àti ẹ̀bùn. A bọ̀wọ̀ fún Cyborg Rainbow Ohun Ọ̀ṣọ́ nítorí ìfọ̀kànbalẹ̀ rẹ̀, a sì ṣàwòṣe rẹ̀ láti pèsè ìmúdára ìgbésí ayé tó ń ran ayé lọ́wọ́ láti di ibi tó dára jù.

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.