Syna Chen
Website: www.synachen.com
Email: syna.chen@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Patricia Flanagan, Haider Akmal
Syna (Nan) Chen is a PhD candidate, design researcher, and wearable technology designer at UNSW Art, Design & Architecture. She holds a Master of Fashion from RMIT University. Syna's research interests revolve around speculative and wearable technology design, aiming to facilitate human and non-human collaboration and explore the potential of wearable technology to bridge the gap between human and non-human experience. She places particular emphasis on challenging anthropocentric perspectives by designing more than human wearables to imagine alien or non-human modes of perception and existence. Her work has won prestigious awards and has been featured in various exhibitions and fashion showcases around the world, including Australia, Italy, and China.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Wearable technology
- Fashion design
- Speculative design
- Embodying technology
- Body inter-faces
- Non-human experience
- Human-technology interface
- Human experience
- Provocative embodiment