constructivism

noun5

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   A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.

   • Constructivism wasn't just Russian state propaganda - its blend of optimism and pragmatism and its emphasis on equality and the collective prefigured key developments in 20th-century art. — 2009
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   A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.

   • Many masterpieces of Soviet constructivism are now crumbling under capitalism, replaced by pastiche architecture or pale replicas of former buildings. — 2015
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   A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
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   A school of studying international relations that prioritises the way the behaviour of polities and agents in geopolitics is constructed by norms and identities.
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   A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.

   • At bottom, constructivism opposes axiomatization as the fundamental idea in mathematics. — 1973