{"id":101,"date":"2024-04-02T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retrotopia.eu\/archive\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:01:19","slug":"archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/retrotopia.eu\/en\/archive\/","title":{"rendered":"introduction to the archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group linke_spalte\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Assembled in conjunction with the exhibition <em>Retrotopia: Design for Socialist Spaces<\/em>, this archive focusses on design from the formerly socialist countries of Eastern and Central Europe and ex-Yugoslavia. It provides visitors around the world with access to the region\u2019s design history, which until now has remained largely invisible. In tracing the development of the field, including its circumstances and main players, it highlights particular events and exhibitions, describes pedagogical approaches, and introduces key concepts.<br>The archive details the history of design within each featured country, maps out the movement of ideas between them, and delineates the lines of exchange between East and West. The concept of the \u2018contact zone\u2019, recently introduced as an alternative theoretical framework in the historiographies of architecture and design, informs the archive\u2019s investigations into not only the region\u2019s internal connections, but also the ways in which each country interacted with the global design discourse, despite the existence of the Iron Curtain\u2014which, as the Hungarian historian Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e9teri has noted, was more akin to a \u2018nylon curtain\u2019. Such contact zones encompass a multitude of activities, including competitions, exhibitions, congresses, biennales, and workshops. In addition to direct interactions, the archive also looks at initiatives and ideas that may not have involved any face-to-face contact but instead an imagined dialogue about shared topics and concerns. In this sense, the archive is not merely a repository of data but rather, in the words of Michel Foucault, \u2018a system for relating information to each other\u2019, an exercise in historical imagination.<br>The archive is structured around six thematic issues: institutions, education, exhibitions, networks, discourses, and collections. The archive relies on collaborative input from international experts in its gathering and contextualizing of key information on design and related topics in formerly socialist countries. Each entry includes a short description and visual documentation. Entries can be listed and rearranged according to various criteria, including thematic keywords, countries, and individual names, allowing for different readings. The archive aims to serve as a general guide\u2014and hopefully as a starting point for further in-depth research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For their invaluable support in the development of this online archive\u2014through image and text contributions, research, or vital information\u2014special thanks go to the following individuals: Anna Cebula, R\u00e9ka Czigler, David Crowley, Gra\u017eina Gurnevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Beata Hock, Kate\u0159ina Hru\u0161kov\u00e1, \u017divil\u0117 Intait\u0117, D\u00e1niel Kov\u00e1cs, Olha Melnyk, Peter Molnar, Tetiana Pavlova, Eszter Sz\u0151nyeg-Szegv\u00e1ri, and Elnara Taidre.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assembled in conjunction with the exhibition Retrotopia: Design for Socialist Spaces, this archive focusses on design from the formerly socialist countries of Eastern and Central Europe and ex-Yugoslavia. It provides visitors around the world with access to the region\u2019s design history, which until now has remained largely invisible. 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