Soviet Critical Design: Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround

ISBN-13: 9781350021990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

Tom Cubbin; Grace Lees-Maffei; Kjetil Fallan

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Introduction: The Communist Surround Socialist Objects as Critical Design The Communist Surround The Language of Soviet Design Late Socialism Conclusion Chapter 1: Art, Technology and Design in the Soviet Thaw Technical Aesthetics as a ‘Science of Design’ Theories of Design in Art and Aesthetics Problems of Design Foreign Influences From Chaos to Harmony The Production Art of the Future Objects of the Future Conclusion Chapter 2: Senezh Studio and the Emergence of a Critical Practice The Artist in Design Seminar for Design and Industrial Art – Programme of Work Summary of Courses in Colour and Composition, 1969 Industrial Policy and Labour Open Form Sites of Experimentation: Socialist Spaces of the Future Methodological Philosophy and the Reassessment of Artistic Projecteering The Domestic Information Machine Conclusion Chapter 3: Semiotics, Environment, and the Historical Turn Abandoning Industrial Design Redefining Visual Agitation Conservation of Architectural Heritage Retrospectivism, Memory and History Theatricalization Conclusion: Opening the Semiotic Cage Chapter 4: Design and the Projective Imagination Environment and the ‘Museification’ Debate ‘Projectivism’ and Design Icons of a Higher Reality Underground Culture Maiakovskii Square as a Theatre of Post-Authoritarian Urbanity Conclusion Chapter 5: A Quiet Conversation Among Things: Memory, Agency and Materiality at the End of History Background: Cultural Ecology and Projecteering in Pushchino The Abandoned House Perestroika and Time Photographs Tables Icons Conclusion Conclusion End Matter Appendix I – Complete List of Senezh Projects Appendix II – Key People Index