LAFE CREATIVITY AND DESIGN EDUCATION IN SHAPING THE EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORY OF AN INDIVIDUAL

Declaring the humanistic concept in the new philosophy of education involves studying the factors that shape personality in the modern world, which is characterized by rapid changes in almost all spheres of human existence. In the formation of a spiritually rich personality, the ability to navigate the ever-growing flow of information is important. In everyday communication between people, complex processes of learning, upbringing, and personal development, artistic imagery and emotional richness are of particular importance. Design education accumulates the mentality, knowledge, and life experience of previous generations, as well as national and universal ideals. The article explores creativity and design education in the context of shaping an individual's educational trajectory. It has been proven that design education stimulates a person's ability to be creative, allows them to overcome the fragmentation of everyday experience, and contributes to the formation of a holistic personality. The subject of design education is the universal characteristics of human existence. The thematic diversity of design and design education in a democratic society has a practical focus and contributes to the development of an individual's creativity. In the educational space of independent Ukraine, design education, while preserving the best national traditions, has changed its format and principles of teaching. The national educational project paid considerable attention to scientific forecasting in the development of design and design education. Curricula and plans for training future specialists were significantly updated. In the context of socio-cultural transformations and intensified intercultural contacts, modern people are forced to constantly refine their position on the issues of life creativity. The Russian-Ukrainian war requires new activity from the subjects of production and educational activities, the involvement of children and young people in creative activities, and active life creativity. The ability of society to self-organize and establish interaction between generations, which affects the quality of the educational process, is analyzed. The influence of the living Skovoroda tradition on the system of world perception and understanding of the individual, their spiritual and cognitive activity is emphasized. This article presents the experience of the Design Department of the Faculty of Arts of the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University as a self-presentation of a learning society.