Syna Chen

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

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