Dizainas socialistiniame (Lietuvos) ūkyje, arba žmogus ir daiktinė aplinka visuotinio nepritekliaus sąlygomis
Design in the (Lithuanian) socialist economy: man and his material environment under conditions of general shortage

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses certain aspects of Soviet design policy, including the role that design was expected to play in promoting Soviet (and also Lithuanian) technical progress and the imbalances that this emphasis created in the material realities of Soviet Lithuanian society. Forms of Soviet industrial design or, more precisely, technical esthetics are explored here as part of the Lithuanian Soviet economy. It is thus possible to identify various approaches (and efforts) pursued in developing technical esthetics in its many component parts, an approach that led to the creation of different environmental designs for living, work and leisure. The specific features of the designs created, and thus also of the surrounding environment, reveal the diverse modes of existence of Soviet man.

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