Retrograd @Retro_Grad
An online project exploring the legacy and transformation of socialism through the lens of architecture, design and material/pop culture, based @UCLSSEES. retrograd.org.uk London, Warsaw, St. Petersburg Joined June 2015-
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Flair to avoid snow glare - dazzling eye fashion from 2,000 years ago until today. Siberian goggles among the world’s earliest eyewear to prevent winter blindness from the sun’s piercing reflection siberiantimes.com/other/others/f…
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A #feminist manifesto sung by a 19-year-old #Kyrgyz student has rekindled debates over women’s rights in #Kyrgyzstan bit.ly/2PQFIHG
The “National Mothers” of #Socialism: From Mother Albania to the Mother of Georgia balkanist.net/national-mothe… via @Balkanist
Vostok-2018: #Russia launches biggest post-Soviet war games – in pictures theguardian.com/world/gallery/…
The #women architects who built #Socialist #Yugoslavia bit.ly/2JSI4m0
'Wait, there’s another Russia? White Russia?' Belarusians groan at hearing this, but a #campaign in #Minsk is exposing stereotypes and ignorance about the country, one poster at a time. #WTFISBELARUS #Belarus More info here: bit.ly/2p4x0dl
'In embracing post-socialist aesthetics, Westerners co-opt the imagery of the collapse of #socialism for their own epistemic destabilization...' #postsocialism goes #west bit.ly/2wm2ij9
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Our illustrated poster Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier available exclusively at @galerie318 (at Unité d'Habitation, Marseille) - © ZUPAGRAFIKA pour Kolektiv 318, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier, Marseille | © F.L.C. | ADAGP, Paris, 2017 Offset print. 100 x 70 cm.
How to write about #Belarus? 10 Tips for Western #journalists. Via @34magnet bit.ly/2PGjMis
#Berlin Is Out, #Tbilisi Is In: #Georgia's Capital Is This Year's Most Exciting City. bit.ly/2NRflAB
Meanwhile in #Russia: #Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone #Tesla. Really? bit.ly/2Q4ME4Y
The #Nenets are one of the #indigenous and #nomadic nations in #Russia's #Arctic north. They call themselves "children of deer", a name that finds its roots in the Nenets' traditional occupation: #reindeer #breeding. bit.ly/2PBlIIP
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Lenin like you've never seen him before. Even convenient factory smoke to cover his wee-wee.
'How to trip in the #SovietUnion?' The #USSR had its very own #hippie #movement, seekers who couldn’t have been less concerned by the restrictions and commands of their time. Via @DeepBaltic #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania bit.ly/2NO8Q1I
yeah, why not? #Almaty #Kazakhstan
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An interesting 1980s #retro color postcard I recently came across showing the "Monument to the Uprising" at Petrova Gora mountain, #Croatia. Created by Vojin Bakić in 1981, the site today sits in ruins. @MuzejYU @Retro_Grad @C20Society @modernistmag
'The Architecture of Democracy' in #Moscow, 2 June 2018, 16:30-18:30 architecture-freedom.timepad.ru/event/688442/
These Photo Tiles Transform Walls Into #Soviet #Apartment Blocks. the #Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika printed photos of Soviet-era apartment windows onto tiles. gyvagrafika.lt/darbai/wc-arch…
Photographer Konstantin Vichrov portrays #Russian suburbs in the style of #BladeRunner tjournal.ru/68063-russianb…
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