Overview

Environmental design creates safe, usable, and aesthetically pleasing indoor and outdoor environments for humans. It applies creativity, technicality, and artistry to the design scheme to achieve the integrity of the environment. It is a science of discovering and solving problems between humans and the environment. The major currently has three professional design studios: interior space, landscape design, and furniture design. It features project-based studio teaching, combines professional laboratories and interdisciplinary projects, is problem-oriented, based on actual work processes, and requires innovative and critical thinking skills as well as team collaboration abilities. It aims to cultivate environmental designers with an international perspective and industry foresight.

Why choose Environmental Design?

• In the context of the sustained development of the global real estate economy, the environmental design major has good professional development prospects worldwide, and the industry has abundant and diversified employment opportunities;
• The studio based teaching of environmental design will use problem oriented design in real projects, guiding students to actively engage in critical thinking and expression, and encouraging students to innovate and practice;
• Continuously optimizing international cutting-edge teaching programs, improving process based course assessment methods, helping students explore suitable learning methods, effectively mastering and applying the latest professional knowledge and skills;
• Professional courses are exploratory and challenging, allowing students and teachers to explore the future of environmental design together, adding vitality and creativity to the development of the industry;
• Rich and diverse professional courses and design task forms enable students to switch roles between individuals and groups, enhance self-management skills, exercise teamwork abilities, improve personal leadership and career competitiveness;
• Among the professional faculty, 96% have a master's or doctoral degree or above, and 20% hold associate professor titles. All teachers graduated from top comprehensive universities and art colleges in China. There are currently 5 teachers with study abroad backgrounds in Germany, Italy, Australia, and Malaysia. Teachers have won 30 awards at exhibitions such as the "Design for China" National Environmental Art Design Exhibition and Milan Design Week - Excellent Works Exhibition of Design Disciplines and Students in Chinese Universities.
• The teacher has participated in more than 10 municipal level and above research projects, such as the Shandong Provincial Cultural and Tourism Research Project, the Qingdao Social Science Planning Research Project, and the Qingdao "Double Hundred Survey Project". They have also been involved in 10 social service projects, including the construction of the school's new campus and the Jimo Public Welfare Library.
• In the past three years, teachers have guided students to win 30 national and 80 provincial awards in professional competitions such as the Cross Strait Emerging Design Competition · Huacan Award, Future Designer · National University Digital Art Design Competition, and China Good Creativity and National Digital Art Design Competition.
• Advanced laboratory and processing equipment such as woodworking laboratory, material library, pottery studio, 3D printer, laser engraving machine, CNC machine tool, etc., help students explore the expression of works with rich means;
• Rich exhibitions of works and professional salons outside of class to enhance students' artistic sensitivity and encourage lifelong learning;
• The school is located in Qingdao, an important economic center and port city on the eastern coast of China, with a profound historical and cultural heritage and a shipping hub, providing guarantees for professional learning and exchange.

Basic Information

• School School of Art and Design
• Study Mode Full-time
• Program Length 4 years
• Degree Environmental Design (Bachelor of Arts)

Knowledge and Skills

Graduates of this major will possess the following abilities:

• Master the professional knowledge of interior, landscape, and furniture design history, design methods, design concepts, design principles, materials, and configurations, and possess the ability to understand contemporary environmental design theory with knowledge, critical thinking, and creativity.
• Ability to conduct data retrieval and analysis in the field of environmental design theory and practice.
• Capable of organizing and designing reasonable indoor and outdoor spaces, creating spaces with cultural atmosphere and aesthetic value.
• Proficient in using computer-aided design software such as Auto CAD/Photoshop/Sketch Up/3Ds Max/Lumion, able to draw construction drawings and renderings that comply with national drafting standards.
• Ability to flexibly apply theoretical knowledge to design practice and propose creative and competitive solutions in design work.
• Ability to participate in spatial design or cultural production projects, and drive their development and innovation.
• Capable of conducting work through independent and team research, possessing the adaptability and work ability required for working in teams of different natures.
• Ability to manage and apply environmental design process technology and design implementation process.

Message from the Program Director

Curriculum

Career Prospects

Graduates joining companies (partially):

Decai Decoration Co., Ltd., Qingdao Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute, Beijing Yezhifeng Decoration Co., Ltd.

Representative universities for further education (partial):

Overseas: University of Sydney, University of Sheffield, Macau University of Science and Technology; Domestic: Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Bohai University.