Soviet Critical Design : Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction: The Communist Surround -- Socialist objects as critical design -- The communist surround -- The language of Soviet design -- Late socialism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 2 Senezh Studio and the Emergence of a Critical Practice -- The artist in design -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 4 Design and the Projective Imagination -- Environment and the 'museifi cation' debate -- 'Projectivism' and design -- Icons of a higher reality -- Underground culture -- Maiakovskii Square as a theatre of post-authoritarian urbanity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 A Quiet Conversation Among Th ings: 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 -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- APPENDIX I Complete List of Senezh Projects -- APPENDIX II Key People.

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