
The constuctivists were a group of communist designers that:
DECLARED UNCOMPROMISING WAR ON ART
Led by Alexander Rodchenko and Varva Stepanova, the basis of the war was to eliminate experimental activity that was "removed from life" and instead "move toward real representation." They sought to use industrial mediums to create a system where the practicality of design helped forward communist ideas.
The elements of their ideology:
Tectonics- expedient use of industrial material in a communist wayFaktura - material that is consciously worked and expediently used without hampering the tectonics or the construction.Construction - the organizational function of Constructivism
As far as I can tell from this piece, Construction means productive, so I would call this movement Productivism.
I would like to move deeper into their ideology to discern whether it has much to add to current discussion of social enterprise. There is a lot we can learn from the socialist nations that preceded our time.
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