constructivism

noun constructivisms

1. countable, uncountable 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.
2. countable, uncountable 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.
3. countable, uncountable 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.
4. countable, uncountable A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences. There is no single theory of constructivism. In fact, there are many shades and varieties of constructivism spanning a range of perspectives. There is also no single individual who can be identified as the founder of constructivism. In fact, rather than tracing a linear development along one line of
5. countable, uncountable A school of studying international relations that prioritises the way the behaviour of polities and agents in geopolitics is constructed by norms and identities.