The article deals with the issue of the growing crisis of strategic design in the modern world. The author draws attention to the fact that the rejection of the installation for the implementation of Large Projects, which gradually occurred in the USSR in 1970-1980, resulting in the destruction of the Union State, more broadly launched crisis phenomena in the intellectual sphere all over the world. As a result, first of all, the Western world abandoned the project optimistic vision of the future, dystopian projects began to take the place of certain optimistic visions of the future in the intellectual and artistic sphere, either considering the future as an extension in time of all the crises of the present, or generally assuming only all apocalyptic pictures. The author shows in the article the main artistic and political models that were voiced and approved in this period in the Western consciousness, the loss of their rational design and optimistic vision of the future. The crisis of the optimistic project vision eventually leads to increasingly convulsive reactions of the Western world to the ongoing processes, the rejection of rational understanding of reasonable development projects and the installation of spontaneous power reactions aimed at preserving its geopolitical hegemony. The author draws attention to the fact that without recreating the constructs of strategic project development, similar to those that ensured the development of the Soviet Union, neither Russia nor human civilization as a whole will be able to provide a way out of the downward crisis vector of development that is being established in the world.

scientific and technical romanticism, project development, progress, national sovereignty, Utopia and Dystopia, anthropological optimism, USSR, Western coalition, socio-political regression

Chernyakhovskaya Yulia Sergeevna,  Julcher1@yandex.ru,  D.S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Natural and Cultural Heritage