Features of environment design bachelors' professional activity basics development

Relevance. The article reflects the main features of undergraduate students' professional training in environmental design at art faculties. Issues of special characteristics of the bachelors in the direction of training “Design”, the “Environment Design” profile are touched upon, as well as the techniques and means of activating and developing their specialized abilities.

Aim. to identify some forms and methods of solving methodological tasks used to create the basis of professional activity; the specifics of spatial thinking development is disclosed, including those for specific abilities development, the architectural-planning ones in particular.

Methodology. The authors note the importance of a systematic approach in teaching design to stu­dents, as well as the fact that for professional and personal development of students in this area, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of training specialists in this field. The authors of the article focus on the degree of influence of artistic and graphic training on the design-creative activity of the “Environmental Design” bachelors. The article deals with theoretical and practical issues of forming the foundations of the future bachelors' professional activity. The article also shows the interrelation of graphic thinking development and the art of landscape design and the culture of project graphics.

Scientific novelty and/or theoretical and/or practical significance consist in practical confirmation of the specific factors affecting the process of training environmental design specialists.

Results. The article defines architectural and planning abilities within the framework of the concept of three-dimensional thinking, describes the specifics of methods for forming the foundations of professional activity of design students, ways and forms of spatial thinking development. The criteria are given for evaluating the artistic and design activities of students who are capable of searching for non-standard educational and creative, architectural-planning forms and methods of transforming the environment.

Conclusion. The authors analyze the factors that influence the activation of design-creative thinking and the formation of architectural-planning abilities of “Environmental Design” bachelors.

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