Cyborg Rainbow

Jewellery for Dian Chen

Informed by philosophers like Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, this project utilizes Cyborg and Cyber-punk elements in pop culture to construct this super surreal series. With a flexible adoption of industrial manufactured materials, the pieces in this project is completely constructed by interchangeable parts, that allows the wearers to replace and even remake the jewellery using all those spare "chips and bars". This collection intends to construct a context in which the wearer can experience a fantasy post human future to break the perception traditionally of gender and identity.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Project Overview

Cyborg Rainbow Jewellery has been a Iron winner in the Jewelry Design award category in the year 2020 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

Iron Recognition

Dian Chen was recognized with the coveted Iron A' Design Award in 2021, a testament to excellence of their work Cyborg Rainbow Jewellery.

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Cyborg Rainbow: Redefining Gender and Identity through Participatory Jewellery

London, April 2018 - June 2020 - Dian Chen's Cyborg Rainbow challenges traditional gender norms through participatory jewellery

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