This is Part 1a of my recent grad school design paper, the introduction can be read here. … “Rodchenko names a new kind of emotionally affective object: the comradely object of socialist modernity. Unlike the commodities he encounters on his visit to capitalist Paris, which elicit a possessive relation that makes the objects into “slaves,”…
Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Part 1a: The Designed Object as Comrade in Constructivist Russia
