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History of design - course 3120 rub. from Synchronization, training 16 hours, Date November 28, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / November 30, 2023
Synchronization is one of the largest lecture halls in Russia. We create online courses on psychology, history, cinema, painting and more.
"Synchronization" is a Russian educational platform launched by Maria Borodetskaya and Andrey Lobanov. They offer online courses in a popular science format (psychology, art, cinema, economics, architecture, fashion and design, literature, philosophy, religion, music, etc.)
The cultural platform “Synchronization” is an educational project whose goal is to talk interestingly about striking phenomena, trends, personalities in culture and science. “Synchronization” lectures attract more than 2.5 thousand people every month. a person, offering listeners new and new topics and directions, talking simply about complex things.
Currently, Synchronization conducts more than 200 lectures per month in 19 main areas (painting, architecture, history, philosophy, cinema, fashion, etc.). According to the founders of the project, the most popular area is lectures on painting, which occupy about 30% of the entire lecture program.
During the courses, lecturers—there are 45 of them in Synchronization—try to give students the opportunity to build their own system, which will allow them to add new knowledge to what they have already acquired and broaden their horizons. Therefore, Synchronization offers not only individual lectures, but also special courses, for example “History of architectural styles”, “The language of cinema”, “Guide to the history of art”, lasting two or three weeks.
In 2018, Synchronization launched an online direction.
The team is also developing a corporate direction, offering companies to conduct training lectures for their employees. Clients include McKinsey, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Sberbank Insurance, Swarovski, etc.
Accredited tour guide around the city of Moscow. Tour guide of the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage.
She graduated from the Faculty of Art History of the Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in Curator of Contemporary Art Projects.
He studies the history of architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author of texts about architecture for the ART Insiders project
By the end of the 19th century, architecture and design were in crisis. Masters turned to the art of the past, and the market was flooded with similar things from factories. The situation was corrected by the Arts and Crafts Movement, led by the Pre-Raphaelite Morris. He revived the creative approach to creating objects and began to view design as a synthesis of the arts. By the beginning of the 20th century, the ideas of the Movement developed into the Art Nouveau style with its rejection of academic standards and love of nature.
At the webinar we will find out how modernism changed design in Europe and the Russian Empire. Let's find out how architect Hector Guimard made the Paris metro one of the most recognizable in the world. Let's find out why European designers looked for inspiration in Japanese art and how the Russian architect Fyodor Shekhtel managed to create interiors that were not inferior in beauty and quality to European ones.
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Design and big ideas
Modernism and deconstructivism
In the first half of the 20th century, architecture and design often found themselves in the service of politics. For example, with the help of modernist buildings, people were instilled with leftist views. And in the 1980s, the idea of an architect-creator of a new reality was embodied in a new style - deconstructivism.
At the webinar we will analyze the features of modernism and deconstructivism. Let's find out how designers and architects turned into demiurges who change people's thinking, and why Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko made advertising posters. We will find out how the Soviet authorities raised a new person with the help of communal houses, and why furniture is also architecture. Let us understand why the architect Le Corbusier considered houses “machines for living” and why it is uncomfortable to be in deconstructivist interiors.
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Design and popular culture
From Bauhaus to IKEA
In 1913, Henry Ford launched assembly line production and changed the world of design. Cheap furniture quickly replaced the elegant tables and chairs of the 19th century, but artists and architects tried to combine mass production with art. In Germany this was done by the artistic associations Werkbund and Bauhaus, in the USSR by VKHUTEMAS. Their ideas were borrowed by IKEA, which was able to instill good taste in design throughout Europe.
At the webinar we will learn how good furniture, textiles and home decorations have become available to everyone. Let's figure out why Scandinavian design has become one of the most popular in the world and what role the architect Alvar Aalto played in this.
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Design and irony
Interiors 1960–80s
The 1960s were the time of the sexual revolution, postmodernism, the Beatles and space flights. All this influenced the design. The interiors became bright, the main material was plastic, and the furniture looked like spaceships. Designers began to reject mass production and criticize functional, minimalist furniture.
At the lecture we will figure out how humor penetrated the world of design and what the ideas of designers of the 60s resulted in 20 years later. Let's find out how the architect Robert Venturi managed to make ironic chairs and who created the first plastic chair. Let's see if the dishes can be postmodern. Let's find out what anti-design is and why the Italian group "Alchemy" challenged the industrial production of furniture.
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Design today
Art for art's sake
In the 21st century, design has become an independent art form. Now you don’t have to think about creating a comfortable environment or how to make money on mass-produced goods - you can do “design for design’s sake.” Modern interiors feature both laconic designs in the spirit of modernism and floral ornaments of modernism.
During the lecture we will find out how design became independent and came to a variety of forms and styles. Let’s figure out what “industrial chic”, “high-tech” and “techno” are. Let's find out why architect Zaha Hadid avoided straight lines and how a performance of burning furniture brought designer Maarten Baas world fame. Let's find out why laconic interiors can be paradoxically expensive and how global environmental problems have influenced design.
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Russian design: The Art Nouveau era
The end of the 19th century was a time of crisis for Russian architecture. The masters were looking for a new style that would correspond to the spirit of the times, and great hopes were placed on Art Nouveau. But can modernism be called a style? At the turn of the century, many branches were born from modernity, which we will consider in the webinar. Waiting for us:
- Masters of the “Mamontov Circle” in Abramtsevo: neo-Russian style, traditions of folklore and architecture of the Russian Middle Ages of the 12th–14th centuries;
- Masters of rational modernism, for whom innovative building materials became the source of new forms, which leads to the birth of rational modernity.
- Fyodor Shekhtel: Western European school of Franco-Belgian “Art Nouveau”, Austrian “Secession” and others;
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Russian design: Socialist culture
Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, Stepanova
The revolution became a catalyst for the penetration of avant-garde art into everyday life. The world has changed, and it has become necessary to construct a new person with the help of the right socialist environment. Radical artists took on its creation: Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Popova, Stepanova and others. In the conditions of the Civil War, war communism and the construction of a new state, the ideas of modern artists came in handy. Here's what we'll discuss in the webinar:
- Abstract art in the world of things: propaganda porcelain, overalls and printed fabrics with geometric patterns;
- Artistic propaganda: propaganda advertising, posters, festive decoration of cities;
- Artistic associations of a new type: VKHUTEMAS, OSA, ASNOVA and others
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Russian design: from the thaw to the 1990s
Design of Thaw, Stagnation and Perestroika
It was possible to put design on a mass scale in the USSR only after the death of Stalin. After Khrushchev’s report “On the elimination of excesses in design and construction,” more and more attention began to be paid to mass construction. Design became necessary for the state and began to serve political purposes. Thanks to government support and the participation of talented craftsmen, design flourished in the 1960s. At the webinar we will learn:
- Why did mass design fail in the Stalin era?
- How did the fall of the Iron Curtain affect design and did the craftsmen manage to maintain their identity in the flow of Western influences;
- What artistic associations shaped Soviet design in the 1960s - 1980s.
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