(De)Constructing Utopia Conference, Sheffield 2nd-3rd May, Full Programme
Tom Cubbin <[email protected]>
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(DE)CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA: DESIGN IN EASTERN EUROPE FROM THAW TO PERESTROIKA. Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, May 2nd–3rd 2014. Convened by Tom Cubbin and Yulia Karpova. Email: [email protected] For more information on the workshop, including registration details and a full set of abstracts and speakers biographies, please visit the workshop’s website at deconstructingutopia.wordpress.com Friday 2nd May 0830 – 0945 BREAKFAST (for speakers and chairs only) 0945 – 1015 REGISTRATION 1015 – 1030 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 1030 – 1250 PANEL 1: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Socialist Design How did socialist design cultures differ? What were the basic principles that defined ‘socialist design’ in different national contexts? This set of papers combines synoptic study of national design cultures with analysis of specific moments of international exchange in socialist design. Chaired by Grace-Lees Maffei (University of Hertfordshire) 1030 – 1055 Design Theory and Self Management in Socialism: The Yugoslav Case in a Panoramic Survey (Fedja Vukić, University of Zagreb) 1055 – 1120 Building up a Design Culture in the German Democratic Republic: Parallels and Differences to Design in the West (Siegfried Gronert, Bauhaus University, Weimar) 1120 – 1145 “Design for Man and Mankind”: VNIITE hosts ICSID ’75 Moscow (Margareta Tillberg, Stockholm University) 1145 – 1210 Hungarian Design in the light of the Zsennye Workshop: 1978-2014 (András Szilági, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) 1210 – 1250 Discussion 1250 – 1400 BUFFET LUNCH Lunch is free for speakers and chairs. If those attending would like to join us, please let us know by 25th April and bring £7 on the day. This is to ensure the workshop remains free of charge for as many people as possible. 1400 – 1620 PANEL 2: Skill, labour and identity in socialist artistic production Emerging as a new and ambitious profession in the 1960s, socialist design was quite strongly tied to the traditional spheres of decorative art and peasant craft, where labor and skill were often perceived as more meaningful ingredients than novelty and experiment. Is it possible to define more or less clear borders between art, design and craft in the context of socialist production, or, rather, one should focus on their interaction and the benefits it could bring? This panel brings together papers dealing with professional identities in their relation to artistic labor, hierarchies within artistic/design communities, and the role(s) of craft in creating modern environments. Chaired by Susan E. Reid (University of Sheffield) 1400 – 1425 The Afterlife of Suprematism: Malevich’s legacy in Leningrad applied art and design (Yulia Karpova, Central European University, Budapest) 1425 – 1450 History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961 (Rebecca Bell, Royal College of Art) 1450 – 1515 Neither a real artist, nor a designer: Art labourers in the Riga Porcelain Factory and output in the Soviet period (Iliana Veinberga – Art Academy of Latvia, Riga) 1515 – 1540 The Creation of a New Professional Identity (Mari Laanemets, Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn) 1540 – 1620 Discussion 1620 – 1650 TEA AND COFFEE 1650 – 1730 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: IRINA KOSTENKO (Moscow, formerly VNIITE) THE DESIGN CENTRE IN MOSCOW DURING THE LATE SOVIET PERIOD. 1730 – 1800 WINE 1900 EVENING MEAL AND RECEPTION (SPEAKERS AND CHAIRS ONLY) SATURDAY 3rd May 0830 – 0945 BREAKFAST (for speakers and chairs only) 0945 – 1000 REGISTRATION 1000 – 1220 PANEL 3: From projects to environments: postmodern turns in socialist design? If postmodernism is the ‘cultural logic of late capitalism’ how do we interpret the aesthetic strategies of architects and designers during late socialism? While the turn towards environment and critical re-evaluation of past utopian thought have been seen as important elements in the production of the postmodern aesthetic in Western architecture, there has been relatively little discussion of similar strategies in the East. The papers in this panel address the topic from a range of perspectives including the production of theory, paper and cardboard architecture and socialist architects’ engagements outside of the Eastern bloc. (Chair TBC) 1000 – 1025 From Environment to Milieu via Berlin – Marzahn: The urbanism of the in-between in socialist East Germany (Torsten Lange, Institute for history and Theory of Architecture, Zürich) 1025 – 1050 Designing for the Socialist Present? Post-Utopian Practice in Soviet Urban Design of the 1970s (Tom Cubbin, University of Sheffield/Royal College of Art) 1050 – 1115 Deterritorializing Utopia: “Paper Architecture” in Moscow, 1984 (Andres Kurg, Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn) 1115 – 1140 Postmodernism is Almost All Right. Polish Architecture After Socialist Golbalization (Łukas Stanek, University of Manchester) 1140 – 1220 Discussion 1220 – 1330 BUFFET LUNCH Lunch is free of charge for speakers and chairs. If those attending would like lunch, please let us know by 25th April and bring £7 on the day. This is to ensure the workshop remains free of charge for as many people as possible. 1330 – 1515 PANEL 4: Curating Socialist Design What formats of collecting and exhibiting can most effectively preserve and present the history of socialist design? The 2008 exhibition Cold War Modern. Design 1945−1970 (V&A, curated by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt) presented design as a powerful aspect of Cold War history, echoing the approach to socialist design characteristic of scholarly works of the 2000s. However, there are, presumably, multiple ways for curators to work outside of a cold-war framework, such as introducing local histories or problematizing the commodity as both the object of design quality and site of boring socialist everydayness. The papers in this panel discuss these new curatorial strategies and opportunities. 1330 – 1355 Modernization in the Baltic during the 1960s: (Lolita Jalonskiene, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius) 1355 – 1420 “Soviet Design” – Reflections on Moscow Design Museum’s First Exhibition (Alexandra Sankova, Moscow Design Musuem) 1420 – 1445 Things to Use: Design Objects in Everyday History (Andreas Ludwig, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam) 1445 – 1515 Discussion 1515 – 1545 TEA AND COFFEE 1545 – 1645 KEYNOTE LECTURE: DAVID CROWLEY (ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART) THE OTHER CHILDREN OF MARX AND COCA-COLA: POP ART AND CINEMA IN EASTERN EUROPE 1645 – 1700 BREAK 1700 – 1745 DISCUSSION: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SOCIALIST DESIGN HISTORY (CHAIRED BY TOM CUBBIN AND YULIA KARPOVA) ---------------------------------------------------------- Tom Cubbin Postgraduate Research Student Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies University of Sheffield Critical and Historical Studies Visiting Lecturer Royal College of Art, London [email protected] http://tcubbin.wordpress.com/ (De)constructing Utopia Conference on Socialist Design, Sheffield, 2nd-3rd May http://deconstructingutopia.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Shera mailing list [email protected] http://lists.oakland.edu/mailman/listinfo/shera