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Associate professor of history and theory of art and design.

Margareta Tillberg

Associate professor of history and theory of art and design at the Linnaeus University, writes about design, art, and technology in 20th century Russia.
Currently working on a monograph about design and art, ergonomics, observation and cybernetics, collaboration and innovation within the planning system in the Soviet Union from 1945 until today.

Her PhD thesis, Coloured Universe and the Russian Avant-Garde, was translated into Russian. It is the first close study on practices of a so-called laboratory in an art- and science institute in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.

In 2010, visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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Articles by Margareta Tillberg

  1. Design of Electronic/Electrical Systems in the Soviet Union from Khrushchev’s Thaw to Gorbachev’s Perestroika

    In the 1960s, the Soviets took up a rivalry with the US in a hitherto new field, industrial design. ElektroMera was a grandiose effort to produce utilities for everyday use: an effort that nonetheless was never realized in the form of finished products.

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