Abstract: Subject competition plays an important role in the education of environmental design specialty, and has certain reference significance for teaching reform, curriculum construction and training mode. By collecting and sorting out the major discipline competitions of environmental design major from 2008 to 2018, this paper firstly classifies them, then analyzes the corresponding relationship between discipline competitions and environmental design professional education from the perspective of collaborative theory, and puts forward four ways to integrate discipline competitions into environmental design education system timely and effectively. Finally, it is pointed out that it is necessary to objectively examine and correctly absorb the discipline competition so as to make it develop healthily in environmental design education.

Key words: Environmental design, Synergetic theory, Subject competition, Teaching research