Abstract：China’s People’s Commune system implemented during the country’s collectivisation era put forward new demands as well as opportunities for exploring new organisation models and socio-spatial diagrams. This paper focuses on propaganda posters and spatial design proposals published between 1958 and 1960. The ultimate task of planning and designing People’s Communes was to spatialise the state institution at levels of territory, settlement and household, and to create the condition for habitation wherein the subjectivity of its inhabitants can be reconstructed-transforming peasants into members of the commune through the systematic arrangement of the practice of everyday life. These commune proposals were to significantly undermine the idea of family and patriarchal clan authority deeply rooted in the Chinese rural society in order to legitimise the new socialist regime. In this regards, the spatial design of the People’s Commune were themselves political manifesto of the commune movement.
程婧如. 作为政治宣言的空间设计 ——1958—1960中国人民公社设计提案[J]. 新建筑, 2018, 36(5): 29-33.
CHENG Cyan Jingru. Spatial Design as Political Manifesto: The Design Proposals of China’s People’s Commune 1958-1960. New Architecture, 2018, 36(5): 29-33.
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