English-Italian translations for constructivism

• costruttivismo
  Temo quindi che anche nell'ambito dello sviluppo i popoli continuino a pagare molto caro il costruttivismo ideologico. I fear that in the area of development as well, people continue to pay a high price for ideological constructivism.
  Tuttavia, signor Presidente designato Prodi, nel tracciare il quadro del lavoro che lei ha prefigurato per la nuova Commissione, avrei auspicato un pò meno «divisionismo» e un pò più «costruttivismo». However, Mr Prodi, I would have liked to see rather less pointillism and rather more constructivism in the picture you painted of the new Commission's work.

Definition of constructivism

• A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials
• A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences

Related words

• construction
• constructive
• constructively
• deconstruction
• reconstruction
• constructivist
• reconstructive
• constructional
• constructiveness