Press Release
Yiru Wang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Elysium Echoes Movable Contemporary Art Installation in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yiru Wang for fine arts and art installation design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Elysium Echoes Movable Contemporary Art Installation by Yiru Wang, designed for SaturnVII Studio, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Elysium Echoes Movable Contemporary Art Installation
Elysium Echoes is a rotating art installation that explores the relationship between environmental change and human survival. The work is made of resin, metal and acrylic, with three-dimensional printed parts and a rotating motor, and measures 45 by 45 by 50 centimetres. Three sections represent human, transitional and post-human forms. Continuous rotation disrupts and recombines these stages to suggest evolutionary shifts. The installation invites reflection on technology, ecology and the future of humanity.
Award Record
Yiru Wang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/170527
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170527
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170527
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/363549
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.yiruwang.art
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Elysium Echoes Movable Contemporary Art Installation
- Function
- Movable Contemporary Art Installation
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Light Gray, Silver, Dark Gray, Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- SaturnVII Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yiru Wang
- Country
- Great Britain
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170527
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Elysium Echoes explores the complex relationship between environmental change and human survival in a post-humanist era. It examines how humanity's evolving bond with the environment is influenced by the balance between technological progress and ecological sustainability.
- Inspiration
- In the post-human era, I explore how shifting environments and productivity levels shape human gene selection. Technological progress aids adaptation, yet sudden ecological upheaval risks collapsing our systems, regressing productivity and forcing genetic adaptation to dominate survival. Here, mutation emerges as life’s most reliable tool.
- Research
- This research uses a speculative, practice-led approach to explore how technological progress reshapes humanity’s relationship with nature in the Anthropocene. Grounded in post-humanist theory, it critiques ethical ambiguities of ecological intervention and envisions alternative evolutionary paths. Through immersive installation art, kinetic prototyping, and participatory observation, a rotating structure (human/transitional/post-human) simulates evolutionary disruption. Data from 87 interviews, audience analytics, and impact simulations reveal a tension between techno-optimism and ecological humility, with 73% reconsidering humanity’s stewardship.
- Challenge
- Elysium Echoes deconstructs the complex bond between humans and nature, prompting reflection on technological progress and its impact on life and evolution. As humanity's influence grows, a crucial question arises: should we reshape nature in the name of technology? Though the "post-human era" remains uncertain, it echoes a warning—our pursuit to replace the Creator may not unfold as envisioned.
- Realization and Technology
- Rotating Motor, 3D Printing, Resin, Metal, Acrylic
- Operation and Interaction
- This dynamic installation explores biodiversity and evolution in the transition from humans to post-humans. Comprising three parts—human, transitional forms, and post-human—it rotates continuously, disrupting and recombining stages to simulate evolutionary shifts and new species. The work challenges biological boundaries and provokes thought on evolution, technology, and humanity’s future.
- Project Duration and Location
- London Design Week 14–21 September 2024 Dutch Design Week 19–27 October 2024
- Keywords
- 3D Printing, Art Installation, Interdisciplinary Art, FutureEcology, ContemporaryTechArt
