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Abstract
The work uses a historical-genetic approach, providing a step-by-step consideration of the development of system methodology in industrial design in the 1960-90s. The limited amount of research on the topic explains the reliance on interviews and designer notes, as well as the use of more recent data. The genesis of the systematic approach in industrial design is presented, what originates from the works by G.P. Shchedrovitsky, D. Azrikan, K. Kantor and others. For the first time, connections were traced between the Russian founder of the systems approach G.P. Shchedrovitsky and L. von Bertalanffy in the late 1940s and beginning 1950s. A tendency for the development of a systems approach in industrial design has been identified – from the idea of the systemic nature of the design process to a systemic understanding of the designed object. The connection between the ideas of system design and the topic of social management is shown, which involves a clear calculation of user scenarios and actions, which in the Soviet period also had ideological significance. The contribution of representatives of system design to the idea of form is considered through ambivalent pairs of design settings: whole and parts, abstract and concrete, expressive in its functionality and decorative. A separate part is devoted to design programs, almost completely forgotten today. It is concluded that the study of the genesis of the systems approach in design reveals not only the trend of an increasingly comprehensive systematization of ideas about the process and form of the product, but also the points of intersection of specialists from different countries that need to be identified and developed today.