Project Education in Design. Innovations or Traditions?

The importance of the given article results from active new teaching technologies integrating into the educational system in Russia. The necessity for Russia's education to shift to up-to-date forms is recognized by everybody in the scientific community. Prospects of project scenarios of acquiring knowledge are evident to everybody. Sooner or later, all persons involved, from professors to students, will have to solve these problems, but in practice, the problems are not so complicated as they seemed at the start of the reforms. Newest technologies in modern education and a historical experience of training specialist in architecture and art will make it possible to solve problems of creating scientific teams based on new cooperation principles. The objective of the given article is to focus the interest of colleagues of all areas of knowledge on the theory and practice of project education in leading scientific schools involved in training specialists in architecture, design, and culture. These areas of education possess a rich experience thanks to many generations of architects, designers, and artists working in decorative art, this experience produces amazing results. A new educational space that is being formed nowadays, puts forward a demand for multifunctional specialists, any experience being appreciated here. A method of solving the problem of shifting to project educational technologies in Russia was stated, among others, in the architectural and design education methodology. Being a work-through principle, project technologies concern all the subjects and meet the demands to form of a complete scope of competences of specialists in these aspects. This article propositions can result in a basis for new project education methods elaboration and fundamentally new educational medium formation. In the first place, these methods are directed to the problem to motivate creative search and form imaginative and project thinking. Nature as a source of inspiration, a factor of shape design and style, and actual problems of preserving it, can become a new content of many projects. A new attitude to the educational space as an integral body will support creating an ideal medium for interaction and development of all participants of the educational process on a permanent basis in future. That is a medium, really beautiful and comfortable for scientific and professional development and perfection.