This thesis addresses the teaching perspectives on the body as a significant structure of significance in processes of meaning-making in teaching-learning situations of Higher Design Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Understanding design as a phenomenon of communication and language, multimodal and multisensory, and as a contextually situated practice of the production of senses, we start from the assumption that the formative processes in design require the structuring of pedagogical practices with emphasis on perception, analysis and reflection on the senses involved in their production in an embodied approach - the corporatized and territorialized knowledge (Merleau-Ponty, 1999; Varela, 1992; Maturana, 2002[1998]). The problem of the body as a constructor of senses in contexts of formal education, characterized by the marginal and accessory character of its presence in learning processes, is opposed to this. (Simas e Rufino, 2018; Kastrup, 2001; Freire, 2018; hooks, 2013). To this complex are added the effects of the confinement and virtualization of life and education in the years of the Covid-19 pandemic. Against this background, the aim of this study is to explore the senses negotiated in the educational practices of the design school. Drawing on cartography (Deleuze and Guattari, 1997; Passos, Kastrup and Escóssia, 2009) as an epistemological stance and theoretical-methodological approach, this paper develops from participant observation and interviews with faculty members of the institution by elaborating the perspectives and pedagogical gestures on the body in the context of research, from participating observation and interviews with faculty members of the research. We take teaching practices and teaching speeches as objects. From this we attempt to draw out heterogeneous positions and interpretations of the world about how to work and learn in design. This is not about solving the problem of the body in teaching as research develops, but about inventing and framing problems in relation to the body that enable the pedagogical community to develop strategies for repositioning the body in pedagogical practice in design.