What is it about?
In this article, we analyse the Soviet art collective Dvizhenie from the 1960s, which worked on bringing together ideas from technology and science with fantasy scenarios bordering on enchantment and magic. It presents close readings of maps and scenarios for IBKS – an artificial bionic-kinetic environment for the future society – as an example of how to frame the turn towards the spiritual in architecture and art. In the article we demonstrate the projects’ connections with their earlier works and then interpret the environments as means for the education and self-transformation of mankind. More broadly, the article argues that artistic fantasy was seen as an additional means, alongside scientific prognoses, for envisioning the future in the late Soviet period.
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Why is it important?
It is one of the first attempts to take a closer look at the IBKS project by Dvizhenie. It relies on close reading of the project drawings and accompanying texts.
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This page is a summary of: Forecast and Fantasy in the Kinetic-Cybernetic Environments of the Art Group Dvizhenie, December 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004747470_010.
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