Department of Design and Decorative and Applied Arts of the Peoples of the Arctic

The Department of Design and Decorative and Applied Arts of the Peoples of the Arctic is based on the platform of two branches: the Krasnoyarsk Art Institute (1996) and the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art (1998). The department was established in 2002 at the Faculty of Fine Arts under the leadership of A. P. Munkhalov. 

The Department of Design and Decorative and Applied Arts of the Peoples of the Arctic relies in its activities on the implementation of the concept of the creative industries of the region and the strategic development of the Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts. 

The global goal of professional training of a designer and an artist of decorative and applied arts reflects the social order of industries for the training of specialists who possess relevant professional competencies, carry out artistic design, analytical, experimental research, production and management activities in the field of creative and creative industries.

The practice-oriented educational system of the art and design school, which has developed at the Department of Design and Decorative and Applied Arts of the Peoples of the Arctic, consists of stages and blocks in which the triad of imagery, consistency, creativity (innovation) is implemented. The first stage is propaedeutic, considering the basic patterns of the organization of objects of traditional art and design, revealing the ways of analyzing design objects, objective compositional laws of shaping, developed in design and art. The following stages of training are the practice of designing systems in which objects of decorative and applied art and design are organized, depending on the complexity of the system. 

The educational system of the department is characterized by its focus on the development of real regional projects and cases relevant to the republic: game design and animation, graphic design projects and concepts of a comfortable environment, modular prefabricated housing for northern conditions, spaces and objects of public importance for various social scenarios, landscaping of rural and urban areas (squares, leisure areas), organization of natural landscape areas, parks, interior projects, design codes, master plans, small architectural forms, visual communications in an urban environment, visual communications in an urban environment, design codes related to the video ecology of space, solving problems of visual quality of the environment and specific territories cities, villages. The result of the process of implementing the results of practice-oriented learning is the transformation of educational activities into a business environment, and the emergence of synthetic forms of interaction and collaborations in the creative industries sector.

The department's research and development focuses on interdisciplinary areas: design in the creative industries, regional studies and territorial branding, urban studies, comfortable urban environment, media management, digital design, management in culture, education, innovation, etc.

The department develops scientific, creative, art history, and technical areas focused on the development of the concept of regional Arctic design and design education.

The department organizes international and Russian events: seminars, conferences, round tables on the development of design and art. Scientific projects "Traditional art and artistic design culture", scientific research project "Genesis and shaping of the architectural and spatial environment and the subject world of the peoples of the Arctic" are being implemented. The main goals and objectives are a comprehensive review of the general patterns of the genesis and shaping of the spatial environment and the subject world of the Arctic peoples, the architectural and artistic organization of the environment, housing, estates, settlements, the traditional subject world and art. The importance of research projects is determined by the possibility of widespread use of scientific results and methods in further research on architecture, art, types of design, and in practical design.

Among the major projects of the department should be highlighted: international projects, the development of cases for creative industries, the design of design codes for villages of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), events in the field of jewelry and fashion design, exhibition initiatives such as the international Biennale of contemporary and contemporary art "BY", 2014, 2016, the project "Art of the Arctic" 2013-2016 The International Arctic Triennial "Arctic Chronotope", 2018-2024, the main reflection of the events is aimed at understanding the geocultural features of the northern Arctic zone, the issues of revealing the culture of everyday life, functioning, identity, metaphorical, figurative and ecological aspects, the structure and figurative semantics of Arctic landscapes.

All research and design directions developed by students and teachers of the department are reflected in the planning of the educational process, contribute to improving the quality of training specialists for creative industries, the development of scientific and applied research in design design, and the fruitful interaction of traditional art and design in modern art design culture.

• RS Development Corporation (Ya).
• Competence Center of RS (Ya) «LETOYAKUTIA»;
• Department of Architecture and Urban Planning under the Head of RS (Ya);
• MARSH University School of Architecture;
• Consortium of Universities "The Future of Arctic Architecture and climate dynamics"
• The International Scientific and Educational Laboratory of NEFU named after S.K. Ammosov and the University of Douala (Cameroon);
• NVC "Sakha";
• Creative Cluster & laquo;Labor Quarter ».
• Seibiem OJSC
• Jewelry and granite cluster "Kangalassa";
• LISAA (Graduate School of Applied Arts of Rennes (France)