Exploring the Practical Teaching Reform of Integrating Central Plains Culture into Environmental Design through Digital Intelligence Empowerment

Abstract

Integrating regional culture into environmental design education represents a crucial practice in the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture within professional pedagogy. Addressing current challenges in teaching—such as superficial cultural interpretation, the decontextualized application of cultural symbols, and an overemphasis on visual presentation in the use of digital intelligence tools—this paper focuses on undergraduate environmental design students, takes the public space design training that incorporates Central Plains culture as an entry point, and proposes an implementation pathway for integrating Central Plains culture into the environmental design major through digital intelligence empowerment. Specific measures include establishing teaching scenarios based on projects, optimizing the dimensions of process-oriented evaluation, and creating channels for the conversion of course outcomes. This teaching model facilitates the transformation of regional cultural resources into curriculum content, design competencies, and practical outcomes, providing a valuable reference for similar curriculum reforms in design education.