...Design for Socialist Spaces the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, in cooperation with numerous museums and institutions from across eastern Europe, provide an introduction to post-War 20th century architecture and design in and from Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Ukraine, and in doing so invite us all to begin to approach more probable and more meaningful positions... A presentation that alongside introducing both state affiliated design institutions such as, for example, the Polish Instytut Wzornictwa Przemysłowego [Institute of Industrial Design]2 or VNIITE [All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics] as the principle design institution in the Soviet Union, and also independent institutions such as, for example, Studio za stanovanje im opremo [Studio for Housing and Interior Design], Ljubljana, or the Hungarian Fiatal Iparművészek Stúdiója Egyesület [Studio of Young Designers Association] also features exhibtion platforms such as the Biennial of Industrial Design, BIO, inaugurated in Ljubljana in 1964 as the world's first design biennale, and an event still staged today, and also design schools such as, and again amongst many others, the Department of Industrial Artistic Design within the, then, Lithuanian SSR State Art Institute, Vilnius, the short-lived Academy of Applied Arts, Zagreb, or the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the Burg Giebichenstein Halle in the DDR...