Future projects reflection as the prospect of humanitarian knowledge

This article is intended to describe one of the most actual problem fields of modern Humanitarian knowledge. It is a problem of researches of projects of the Future. scientific reflection of future projects is needed to understand the current state of culture because they are immanent ways of self-culture and most clearly demonstrate the intention of the present. The understanding of ways of the selfdescription of culture promotes development of humanitarian knowledge and helps to understand mechanisms and cultural development factors. The article considers some future projects, which were developed in the XX—XXI centuries: «New Age», «Earth charter initiative», project “venus” by J. fresco, «The Zeitgeist Movement» and «Youth time». The distinctive feature of these projects is to implement their theoretical positions in cultural and social practices, the establishment on the basis of some of these cultural movements and subcultures. These projects have a positive and creative direction, which distinguishes them from catastrophic images of the future. The emergence of such projects indicating the growing value of personal activity and responsibility for the development of society, culture, and nature. The article concludes that the scientific reflection of future projects can build the future development of the culture and the humanities.