Remembering the Future

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of national design in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s. It considers the phenomenon of such state professional institution as the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics. The article analyses the reasons and the peculiarities of its establishment, development and decline. It tries to release its history from ‘mythological remainders' and to study its heritage from the point of view of ‘archeological fairness'.

Keywords

• all-union research institute of technical aesthetics; soviet design; history of design; mythology; archeology; creative process; bureaucracy; plastic image of the future