Some Problems of Design Education

Abstract

Education, organizationally separated from practice, nevertheless is an organic part of the design sphere as a whole and performs a number of important functions, without which its existence as a type of project culture, practical activity and profession is unthinkable. In general, design, having accumulated a certain professional maturity over the years of its development, is on the threshold of a new stage of qualitative and organizational and structural changes, including the relationship between design practice and education. Firstly, it performs the function of production and reproduction of personnel in accordance with the dynamics of the development of the field of design and society. Secondly, it is one of the sources of the formation of new forms of professional culture: methods, principles of activity, professional ideology, pedagogical concepts and criteria of mastery. Finally, the field of design education, if properly organized, can make a significant contribution to social production and culture.