Human, family and society in a new format of scientific and educational forum

The article considers the limitations of the traditional formats of holding conferences, analyzes the new needs of scientific communication with an expanded number of groups of interests, formulates the principles of modernization and innovative renovation of scientific events. The design approach to turning a scientific forum into new scientific, educational and educating space of an open university is offered. The results of the forum of a new type held in the KSPU named after V.P. Astafiev on the 26–28th of November, 2012 are presented.