АКТУАЛЬНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ ФАХОВОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНІХ ДИЗАЙНЕРІВ У ЗАКЛАДАХ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ УКРАЇНИ: ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ ТА ПРИКЛАДНІ АСПЕКТИ

Abstract

Purpose. The aim of this article was to reveal the current trends in the theory and practice of vocational training of future designers in higher education institutions of Ukraine, which relate to the understanding of the terms like “professional thinking” and “structure of professional thinking of a future designer” and the essential content of design vocational training. Methodology. A set of theoretical general scientific methods were used to meet the research aim. Those were systematic and comparative approaches based on analysis, synthesis, comparison, induction and deduction, as well as descriptive method.Findings. The analysis of scientific sources has allowed us to formulate our own definition of the concept “professional thinking of the (future) designer”, which we understand as a client-oriented design activity that combines logic, intuition, art, commerce and science. And we view the structure of professional (future) thinking of a designer as a dynamic spiral of cycles, which are a sequence of self-sufficient, self-compensating and self-perfect microprocesses aimed at intuitive-artistic and critical-logical thinking and realization of a design task. We also found that the problem of design typology remains debatable among practicing theorists today, since the use of hierarchical (subordination) or facet (the choice of classification features independently of one another and the semantic content of the object being classified) classification systems do not provide a solution to the problem. In the foreign sources, they use the term “a list of design disciplines” which is based on the main features of the way of thinking of the designer instead of the term “a typology of design by types of objects of design”. The list of design studies includes: applied arts, architecture, transport design, design of communications, configurations, engineering, graphic, fashion, game design, information architecture, industrial design, pedagogical, interaction design, interior design, landscape, light, video, process design, services, software, sound, web design. It made us convinced that with the development of technology, the above list has the potential to expand due to the fact that the principles and methods of design will adapt to other areas of human activity.Originality. The scientific novelty of the study is in formulation of the definitions of both the concept of “professional thinking of the (future) designer” and the structure of professional (future) thinking of a designer, and while analysing the scientific literature, the content of vocational training of the designers and curriculum of the higher institutions, it was discovered a trend of deepening of interdisciplinarity, namely in the direction of cross-sectoral convergence and increasing attention to the problem of formation of students’ competences of self-education.Practical value. It was specified the scope for the further investigation which is to study the possibilities of combining both trends in the model of forming the future designers’ readiness for self-education on the basis of interdisciplinary approach in art institutions of higher education.Conclusion. The list of design disciplines is based on the main features of a designer’s way of thinking. With regard to the vocational training of future designers in higher education institutions, there is a trend of deepening of interdisciplinarity, namely in the direction of cross-sectoral convergence and increasing attention to the problem of formation of students’competences of self-education.