PROJECT VIDEO

https://youtube.com/shorts/B1ybqRmNMmM?si=6mKq09xBfUW2viqx

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Cyborg 0.1 is a speculative design imagining how the future of the female body could be transformed and repositioned. The main part of this piece consists of a motor in a womb-shaped transparent box, mirrors as the bottom wearable, and a womb-shaped hat with light-conductive wires. This piece plays with the concept of being a cyborg. According to Haraway, a cyborg rejects the whole organic self. The idea of cyborg envisions a post-gender future where gender norms are rejected, and human reproduction is replaced by replication. Cyborg 0.1 acts as a speculative design piece based on Haraway’s concept of cyborg, and an expressive garment to reimagine the female body. This project aims to challenge the historical and stereotypical bias on the womb as a container hidden inside the female body and to arouse discussions on the blurred boundaries between humans and machines in a cybernetic era.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

In this part you should include the following:

• Any resource you used or inspirations that influenced your project.
• Documentation of the process for creating your mechanism(s). Include images, gifs, and/or short videos. Make sure to add images of the iterations you did, if you have some, and explain how these improved your final result.
• Any other information about your project that you consider important to document and share online.

Inspiration

• Lindy Lee: https://www.lindylee.net/works/

Lindy Lee’s Works at A4 museum

• Casey Curran:

Insipired by the mechanism part(how he incorporated the motor as part of the garment), giving me a sense of half machine half human.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPkb5jbEiZz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

• Ying Gao: http://yinggao.ca/all-mirrors/

• Viktor & Rolf: https://www.viktor-rolf.com/pages/haute-couture-lookbook-ss23