VNIITE: Discovering Utopia – Lost Archives of Soviet Design by Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina kate brown The resulting misadventures unfold through

The resulting misadventures unfold through a gallimaufry of strange occurrences

and the magnitude of this human and ecological catastrophe has been actively suppressed

large and clumsy

defence is prioritised over the economy

and includes the linguistic analysis of the Tematicheskiy language (in Russian and English) and a collection of conceptual poetry written by Fiks in Tematicheskiy (with English translation)

VNIITE: Discovering Utopia – Lost Archives of Soviet Design by Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina kate brown The resulting misadventures unfold throughWritten by the Moscow Design Museums Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, this book tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE the All Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics. Formed in Soviet Russia in 1962, by the design visionary Yuri Soloviev, this vast network contained Moscows most progressive designers. The Vniitians, as they were called, designed for the future and developed new theories and approaches to design in