ABSTRACT
This work aims to contribute to a discussion in the educational field of design, considering a holistic and systemic approach to the teaching of design methodologies. Specifically, it emphasizes the formation of the ability to articulate the syntactic and semantic dimensions in the configuration of design solutions. As a methodological approach, the study used an exploratory transversal platform that converges two surveys. An investigation of the teaching/learning of design in fashion design and a research of methodological strategies for the delimitation of graphic-semantic guidelines in the teaching of graphic design. The clipping focused on the proposition of methodological strategies that could employ visual thinking to the synthesis of expressive concepts, generating a connection between the Expressive Categories Map and the Graphic-semantic Expression Map, two unpublished tools that confirm the advantages of graphic- and active pedagogies in the training environment of designers
