Cover of "Young Technician" magazine for children

The Planet Eden exhibition is a guide to a future that didn’t happen. In the early 1950s, the inhabitants of Czechoslovakia were being persuaded that a Communist utopia was on its way. The launch of the first Soviet space satellites served as a propaganda weapon and, just as was the case in the West, people were convinced we would be making regular flights to the moon by the year 2000.

These dreams were captured in novels, stories, pictures, architectural projects and movies, all of which the exhibition aims to survery. The exhibition's sections include "Film" (science fiction movies), "Tomorrow's World" (technological visions as expressed in architectural projects or children's science and technology magazines), "Sun City" (toys such as “lunokhods” - robot lunar rovers - space ships and ray guns), "Victorious Technology" (works by Czech sci-fi illustrators and authors), and "Retrofuturism."

The Exhibition has been prepared in cooperation with The Brno House of Arts.

Planet Eden: Tomorrow’s World In Socialist Czechoslovakia 1948 - 1978 opens September 16 and runs until November 29 at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.