Methodological Issues of Shaping the Environment During the Era of Globalisation

The purpose of the article is to define the methodology of the modern ecological approach to the environment as system integrity. The methods are systematic, polysystemic, comparative approach, transcendental method, phenomenological, and dialectical, which are used for cultural and historical reconstruction of the environment and to reveal the essence of the modern project process. Results. It is proved that cultural practices of modern environment formation become repeaters of anthropological, semiotic and visual turns, and institutions of cultural practices — a branched whole, from ideological guidelines, schools, formal and informal movements, art formations, to virtual communities. Design is a constructive activity that models the universe. It is especially clear in archaic cultures, even in Greek culture. The cultures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are already changing the paradigm; the New Age is transforming it, but ethnoculture retains cosmocentrism and variability of space models; that is, the universe is included in the model of the environment as a constructive strategy. Everything models the universe, every thing carries the archetypes of catholicity, a cosmological group focused on the totality of the community, understood as tribal integrity. The scientific novelty of the article is that it defines how modern design space makes it possible to characterise the processes of modernisation, transformation and imaginative space of the environment. The environment is considered as a metacultural integrity at the local, regional, and global levels of presentation of its cultural and historical potential.