Conference: (De)constructing Utopia: Design in Eastern Europe from Thaw to Perestroika (Sheffield, 2-3 May)
Tom Cubbin <[email protected]>
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Dear All, We are very happy to announce that a two-day workshop entitled (DE)CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA: DESIGN IN EASTERN EUROPE FROM THAW TO PERESTROIKA, will be taking place at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK on 2nd-3rd of May. For more information, please see the conference website here: http://deconstructingutopia.wordpress.com/ We have most of the abstracts up on the site, but hope to be adding some more speakers over the next few days. Registration for this event is essential, so if you would like to attend, please click on the ‘registration’ link. The event is free to attend. best wishes Tom Cubbin and Yulia Karpova ————————————————————————————— (DE)CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA: DESIGN IN EASTERN EUROPE FROM THAW TO PERESTROIKA. Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, May 2nd–3rd 2014 This two-day workshop will bring together members of academic and cultural institutions from across Europe and Russia in order to discuss key concepts, individuals, organisations and turning points that comprise the history of design in post-war Eastern Europe. In recent years, study of design has emerged as a unique way of understanding socialist culture due to the way it links societal ideals with economics, scientific and technological progress, consumption, the material practises of daily life, the imagined West and broader artistic culture. While material culture studies have made a significant contribution to historians’ understanding of post-war life in socialist countries, a broader understanding of how the design profession sought to both construct and criticise the material environment of socialism is only just beginning to emerge. Through discussions generated by the workshop, we will consider the main aesthetic turning points of design in socialism in relation to socio-political contexts. By considering various approaches to design across the Eastern Bloc, we would also like to explore commonalities and exchanges among former Eastern Bloc countries. Finally, we would like to consider how museums and collections have presented this history. What role does design heritage play in contemporary post-socialist society? Preliminary List of Talks KEYNOTE LECTURE: The Other Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Pop Art and Cinema in Eastern Europe David Crowley – Royal College of Art, London Designing for the Socialist Present: Post-Utopian Practice in Soviet Urban Design of the 1970s Tom Cubbin – University of Sheffield / Royal College of Art Building up a Design Culture in the German Democratic Republic: Parallels and Differences to Design in the West Siegfried Gronert – Bauhaus University, Weimar Title TBC Lolita Jablonskiene – Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius The Afterlife of Suprematism: Malevich’s legacy in Leningrad applied art and design of the late 1950s-1960s Yulia Karpova – Central European University, Budapest Deterritorializing Utopia: “Paper Architecture” in Moscow, 1984 Andres Kurg - Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn Creation of a new professional identity (working title) Mari Laanemets Things to Use: Desgn Objects in Everyday History Andreas Ludwig – Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam Abstract coming soon. Title TBC András Szilágyi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) “Design for Man an Mankind”: VNIITE hosts ICSID’75 Moscow Margareta Tillberg – Stockholm University Neither a real artist, nor a designer: art laborers in the Riga Porcelain Factory and their output in the Soviet period Iliana Veinberga – Art Academy of Latvia, Riga Design Theory and Self Management in Socialism: The Yugoslav Case in a Panoramic Survey Fedja Vukić – University of Zagreb ---------------------------------------------------------- Tom Cubbin Postgraduate Research Student Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies University of Sheffield Critical and Historical Studies Tutor Royal College of Art, London [email protected] http://tcubbin.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Shera mailing list [email protected] http://lists.oakland.edu/mailman/listinfo/shera