This work is the result of a research of the experiences and exchanges between the young people coming from low-income communities and the university environment. Starting from issues related to interdisciplinarity, debated in the course bodies Laboratório de Investigação em Livre Desenho (LILD) and NEAM. Design is used as tool to approach the complex matters and opportunities derived from the young and university relationship circumscribing a triad between Design, Interdisciplinarity and complexity. The data collected through interviews with young teenagers involved in the partnership with Núcleo de Estudo e Ação Sobre o Menor (NEAM). LILD as body of the University form a singular space of reference of studies involving teacher and the young, which make the difference for all surroundings. The development of concrete look and goal that transforms into variable scales: vegetable, animal and biological, living thus, their own actions, times, differences in the choice of their own way, an adventure that occurs through the mixture of curiosity of knowledge and doings.