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Date and location: until July 16, Kunstgewerbermuseum, Berlin
For the first time, a bunch of designers projects from post-socialist countries like Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine are getting unveiled in the exhibition "Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces". Among the documentation of the work of brutalist architects such as Vera Machoninová and Vladimír Machonin (in the picture), as well as examples of airport presidential lounges between the 50s and 80s, the show will be on view at the on view at the Kunstgewerbermuseum in Berlin untill July 16
In a mix of realised and visionary design projects for public and private spaces, the exhibition reveals how concepts were driven by an enthusiastic belief in the power of technology and a passion for planning.
The show also tells how design exhibitions of the time were planned in order to conceive the idea of a new human environment as a response to modernization; as an example, the futuristic display of 1969 exgibition "Space and Form I", happening at Tallin Art Hall.
