Making selves through making things

Golubev, Alexey; Smolyak, Olga

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“…There is much anthropological and social science research being done on Soviet-era women (for example : Denisova 2010;Ilic 2018;Ilic 2020;McKinney 2020). Studies have been conducted on literary texts, visual arts, films, and women's magazines as depictions of Soviet realities, particularly in relation to women's social roles and the socialist way of life (for example : Attwood 1993;Attwood 1999;Baločkaitė 2011;Golubev, Smolyak 2013;Giustino 2015).…”

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Some Aspects of the Image of a Soviet Latvian Woman in Latvian Prose in the 1960s and 1970s

Kušnere

2023

Letonica

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Some Aspects of the Image of a Soviet Latvian Woman in Latvian Prose in the 1960s and 1970s

Kušnere

2023

Letonica

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“…20 The latter gave rise to an amateur "do-it-yourself" culture in the 1960s that has been interpreted in different ways -either as a partial subversion of Soviet state ideology through its emphasis on individualism 21 or, in contrast, as firmly anchored in both the institutional and symbolic universe of the Soviet Union. 22 When applied to the periphery of Soviet Union, however, the idea of a "do-it-yourself" culture arguably loses much of its explanatory power. The practices of building, maintaining and improving private homes in Soviet Samarkand that we describe in this chapter are not discursively framed as "modern" or "Soviet", nor are they manifestations of an individualist leisure culture within a collectivist system.…”

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Mud Bricks in a Concrete State:

Straeten¹,

Petrova²

2021

The Persistence of Technology

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Jonas van der Straeten and Mariya PetrovaIn 1963, the journal Building and Architecture in Uzbekistan printed an arranged photo of four urban planners engaged in an animated conversation about an architectural model in front of them. 1 This model displayed the prospective city centre of Samarkand after its socialist transformation. In the model, the city's old Islamic neighbourhoods had been entirely demolished and replaced by multistorey, prefabricated residential buildings that lined roads radiating from the historical Registan complex. These neighbourhoods of the Old City, known as mahallas, had long been a thorn in the side of Soviet planners -symbolically and materially the narrow alleyways and mud-brick houses stood in the way of the city's modernisation. Now, after having barely changed in appearance for several hundred years -throughout half a century of Russian colonial administration and thirty years of Soviet Stalinist rule -the mahallas were set to finally give way to the rational urban planning of the Khrushchev era. This model of the new city centre, however, never became reality, owing to resource constraints and controversies over the final concept for its reconstruction. 2 Ultimately, the mahallas would even survive the mass housing campaign that started in the late 1950s. The overall vision of an all-out modernisation of Samarkand remained confined to a handful of micro-districts (mikrorayons) on the outskirts of the city. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, Samarkand would large-

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“…The process of inhabiting and valourising the space by the observed community of practice is based on a specific combination of do-it-yourself culture with moral principles of preservation and the longstanding use of human possessions. Golubev and Smolyak, in their analysis of Soviet DIY discourses, suggest this combination is actually rooted in the domestic cultural milieu ( [38], p. 30). The attitude of being frugal and the use and reuse of what is available in proximity [7,39,40] brings forward the particular value of skills regarding what the user can utilise from what is provided by the environment.…”

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Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community

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This article (visual essay) provides a glimpse of a field trip ventured by design students as part of a larger study of developing a localised version of design education for sustainability, focusing on the wants and needs of non-urban populations in vast Russian hinterlands. The central goal is to introduce would-be designers to the concepts of locally appropriate technology and sustainable/circular living by real-life examples and, eventually, teach them to recognise the sustainable potential of place-based technologies and practices of their making, using and maintaining. The primary data came from the trip to Pozhva, a village in Permskiy Krai, Russia, that gained popularity among DIY activists and users of off-road vehicles in Russia in the early 2000s because of its unique, community-centred manufacture of lightweight ATVs on low-pressure tires, nicknamed “jeeps”. This article presents the students’ journey in a comic strip portraying a composite character of technologies and their user-designers as experts in local conditions and (subconsciously) agents of circularity. The article closes with a discussion on the expedition’s discoveries and learning outcomes, correlating them with broader implications for design education.

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Making selves through making things

Abstract: L'expérience soviétique à son apogée -Culture et société des années Brežnev / Volume II

Cited by 27 publications

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Some Aspects of the Image of a Soviet Latvian Woman in Latvian Prose in the 1960s and 1970s

Some Aspects of the Image of a Soviet Latvian Woman in Latvian Prose in the 1960s and 1970s

Mud Bricks in a Concrete State:

Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community

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