Design (Environmental Design) PolyU Design

Overview

The Design (Environmental Design) program at PolyU Design, a four-year full-time studio-oriented programme, is one of the two key design specialisms in the Environmental and Interior Design cluster of the School of Design for local and international applicants.

With a structured progression throughout the four-year programme, core issues covered in the Environmental Design programme include a focus on the spatial and formal aspects of urban development, drawing from disciplines that impact the environment of dense settings, environmental technologies, and the spatial outcomes for positive change. 

The Environmental Design programme focuses on harnessing the design skill to coordinate and harmonize environmental technologies, environmental data, architectural design, landscape design, and urban design to steer new trends of the interior and exterior settings of contemporary cities. 

Aims and Objectives 

The Environmental Design programme aims to provide students with creative, professional skills and knowledge that are necessary for a successful career in the design industry that focuses on the spaces and settings that define the liveable environment. 

The objective is to educate environmental designers to have a broad interdisciplinary view of their roles in programming and influencing the spatial and material settings of liveable cities. 

Graduates are expected to cover a number of spatial fields in their design of the environment, forming crossovers between architects, interior designers, geographers, landscape designers, product designers and project developers. 

Commencing from a spatial and architectural foundation, graduates will gain knowledge of how environmental design intersects with other spatial and technical disciplines including architecture, landscape, urban design, and planning policies and environmental technologists.

Career Prospects 

The Environmental Design Programme is intended to prepare students for a career in the profession of spatial and environmental design industry primarily to provide service in Hong Kong and Mainland China at an international standard, for collaborations with global companies and organizations.