Abstract:This article explores how a group of Soviet designers investigating the future of the domestic interior at the "All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Technical Aesthetics" (VNIITE) sought to assess how technological progress might alter the relationship of the socialist citizen to their home and the objects within it in the years 1968-75. Their various designs for the Domestic Information Machine were part of a broader attempt to imagine an information-age socialism. Their research specifically engaged w… Show more
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