On Some Trends in the Spatial Development of Social Engineering of Scientific and Innovative Activity

Abstract

Social engineering is an important spatial component of scientific and innovative activity. The main requirements for the organization of spaces for such activity are creating comfortable working, leisure, and communication conditions that promote the emergence of new ideas; providing the necessary information, education, and advanced training; organizing informal contacts and communications; increasing the social significance of scientific and innovative activities, educating and popularizing advanced scientific and technological achievements, etc. These architectural solutions are of high quality and individual, iconic and representative. In the article, based on the conducted research of world experience, some trends in the formation of social engineering spaces in modern conditions are noted.

Education and popularization of the achievements of science and innovation, the growth of public interest in these issues, the integration of sciences, and the interdisciplinarity of research methods are traditional. The present time is characterized by the active development of information technologies, virtual research, remote working methods. All this largely determines the formation of trends in the spatial development of social engineering.

The multilevel structure of social engineering of science and innovation is being further developed. The spaces within the complex acquire the qualities of inclusiveness and openness.

The weakening of the spatial relations of a person with his place of work entails the polycentric emergence of separate platforms, formed by the type of coworking, as a form of development of the system of social engineering spaces outside the scientific and innovative complex.Social engineering spaces are increasingly becoming places of interdisciplinary communication for solving scientific and innovative problems. There is a blurring of the spatial boundaries between academic research and commercial development.

The transfer of industrial territories to modern high-tech development is accompanied by the creation of centers for social interaction and communication of cooperative or shared use.

In the urban environment, large multifunctional creative public spaces are being created, where the functions of popularization, education, information, social communication, and entertainment are combined.

Thus, the multilevel structure of social engineering of science and innovation is further developed.