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This article deals with the ways of doing of a handicraft group, that is, how they act, how they usememory and traditions, the inputs in their natural environment, of artifacts, imagination and their bodies;How they articulate themselves with their abilities. For this article, we cut the research Design andHandicraft: Sharing Paths for Social Innovation, held between August 2014 and October 2016, where weinvestigated the group MulheresFatechas, formed by fisherwomen-shellfish-artists-artisans, afterparticipating in a design project to promote handicrafts. The objective of the research was to understand howa design project impacted the construction of knowledge, empowerment and the relationship between thegroup and the environment. To do so, we used ethnography and the theoretical basis of Anthropology of theImaginary in order to understand the symbolic and organizing relations of the group (MulheresFatechas)from recurrent images in photographic records and videos, interviews, documents, drawings, meetings andlife experiences at the field. The methodology adopted came from a perspective of practical performance ofthe designer next to the group and they made bridges/dialogues with the theoretical contribution of the SocialSciences and Social Innovation, resulting in the construction of the more general aspects of the group's waysof doing, namely: learning, cooperation and engagement, and their respective indicators. Therefore, in thearticle, when we consider how the subject cooperates with his group/network from the reflected, articulated,constructed and realized actions in their context, we aim to discuss the relations betweenlanguage/imagination and the knowledge acquired with the corporal practices; The rituals of cooperation asa way of doing handicrafts; and the making of poetry linked to the engagement involving artists-artisans,designers and the community, contributing / building the constructions between the realities of design,handicrafts and social innovation.