TY - JOUR AU - Canevari, Renata AU - Venzel, Sofía PY - 2020/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - USSR: Space Optimism in the 1960s’ Design JF - SOCIAL REVIEW. International Social Sciences Review / Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales JA - revSOCIAL VL - 9 IS - 3 SE - Research articles DO - 10.37467/gka-revsocial.v9.2526 UR - https://journals.eagora.org/revSOCIAL/article/view/2526 SP - pp. 191-206 AB - <p>This paper is based on a review of historical events in the USSR, which took place against the backdrop of the golden decade of the Soviet space age - the 1960s - and its relationship to the institutionalization of design in the country. The Soviet space design, little mentioned in the prevailing discourses of the discipline’s history, was a vehicle for the propaganda of socialism and holds interesting facts about social pride and optimism for the space. The interpretation of everyday artifacts from that Soviet period reaffirms the rhetorical power of design and consists of a meaningful representation of its material and visual culture.</p> ER -