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This paper considers design as a socially responsible tool that can and should be used to challenge existing social and cultural conditions and facilitate the humanization of social consciousness and design activity. Providing inclusivity is undoubtedly a goal of design, and many countries today are engaged in facilitating such changes in urban environments. Universal design is one of the most important tools that can meet the challenges of creating a comfortable living environment and developing an inclusive mindset. We demonstrate the potential of universal design using examples of the design projects developed by the students of the Department of Industrial Design, Ural State University of Architecture and Art. These projects show a wide range of possible applications of the principles of universal design and demonstrate the potential of universal design to facilitate and engender new understanding of inclusive and accessible environment that can help reshape public consciousness regardless of whether or not such projects are actually put into practice. Keywords: universal design, disabled people, humanization of social consciousness, humanization of design activity, inclusive mindset

The authors, remote sensing researchers in one of the former Soviet Union's newly independent Central Asian republics, describe efforts independently to develop a base for a variety of environmental maps using remote sensing imagery. Particular attention is devoted to an analysis of the spectral characteristics of natural and cultural features visible on remote sensing imagery of desert areas and the extent to which spectral regularities provide a reliable basis for automated feature recognition. The authors argue that various aspects of terrain (e.g., landforms, unconsolidated and consolidated surface materials, and the hydrographic network) provide the most distinct photoimage elements (in terms of image pattedtexture, and only secondarily, tone) upon which an informative and replicable map base of desert areas can be compiled. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA

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