Artigo:

From the identification of pedagogical, methodological and material aspects of higher education courses in fashion design, this doctoral research, qualitative with a phenomenological and descriptive-observational approach, seeks to understand and analyze the relationships between teaching-learning and physical spaces of Fashion Design in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Brazil. Furthermore, it aims to investigate its disciplines and emerging practices, analyze how sustainability is approached in the practical disciplines of the courses and propose suggestions for updating the curriculum. The study is aimed at bachelor's degrees with a focus on practical and theoretical-practical disciplines. Based on the concept of Hertzberger (2008), about teaching going beyond reading, writing and learning direct content and that the world should be explored through the space in which the student is inserted, stimulating him to learn, the study involves analysis of the material and physical structures available at universities that offer higher education courses in fashion and fashion design projects; in addition to images collected by the researcher and technical visits in Brazilian HEIs. Supported by associative data analysis technique, systematization of raw data collected and observations in workshops in order to identify abstract patterns of association. It was also verified in the research, the need to use the content analysis technique with definition of categories and discourse analysis, given the difficulty in responding to the interpretive requirements of the human sciences. Despite the pandemic caused by Covid 19, a preliminary data collection was carried out, where questionnaires were remotely applied with professors and students in order to raise positive and negative points about the physical spaces where practical and theoretical-practical subjects are taught.