The degree in environmental design is characterized as a higher education specializing in the study, design, development and supervision of the production/construction of solutions for indoor and outdoor environments.

The focus of the training, due to its broad scope, lies between the domain of the object/equipment (whose character is defined and required by the spatial context for which it is designed and in which there is a relationship of complicity between it and the space for which it is designed), small spaces for individual use, nomadic or ephemeral spaces, as well as fixed indoor and/or outdoor spaces, of a hybrid or permanent nature.

Solutions in the field of equipment to support the urban environment (street furniture, wayfinding and communication supports, modular constructions and micro-housing, work or leisure spaces), as well as solutions for intervention in the definition of small-scale green spaces .

Environmental design work, which can be public or private , is situated in the fields of housing, commerce, industry, exhibition, leisure, scenography, green spaces, digital/virtual scenarios, among other possible contexts, focusing on solutions for defining and organizing new spaces and proposing alternative scenarios for redesigning, redefining, and reorganizing pre-existing contexts.

Environmental design also includes interventions in terms of environmental preservation, as well as their requalification or enhancement when they originate from and are integrated into architectural processes. landscape or urban planning.