School
The core of this project is the School of Northern Design with its years of research and design expertise, which emerged within the Department of Industrial Design at the Ural State University of Architecture and Art (USUAA) in the early 1980s. Now this wealth of expertise has been given an outlet in the format that is very new for designers, a basic research study, thanks to support from the Russian Science Foundation (grant № 17-78-20047, 2017-2020).
Team
Team Leader

Svetlana G. Kravchuk
PhD. (Art Studies), Head of the Innovation and Creativity Lab within the Research Unit of USUAA
Team Members

Nikolai P. Garin
PhD. (Art Studies), Professor at the Industrial Design Department of USUAA, the founder and master-mind of the School of Northern Design

Nikita V. Klyusov
Master of Design, expert in digital graphics / 3D-visualizations, supplementary education instructor in the areas of laser, additive and milling technologies, and electronics

Nikolai A. Korgin
DSc. (Engineering), Associate Professor, Principal Researcher at the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sofiya M. Prokopova
Master’s degree student, Industrial Design Department, Junior Research Associate at the Innovative Creativity Lab within USUAA’s Research Unit

Alexandra V. Rayeva
Master of Design, Junior Research Associate at the Innovative Creativity Lab within USUAA’s Research Unit

Former participants
Ilya V. Abramov
Darya S. Akimenko
Maria A. Gostyaeva
Julia S. Kon’kova
Denis A. Kukanov
Irina V. Myasnikova
Alexandra S. Trofimenko
Students and interns
Natalya Dedevich
Darya Zhukovskaya
Sofya Medvedeva
Maria Pokatayeva
Irina Surina
Alena Timoshenko
Marina Fionova
Ekaterina Formina