This is an investigation around possibilities of activation of individual poetic powers through visual experimentation and its implications in the context of undergraduate teaching in Design. It presents a reflection around creative processes, working with the hypothesis that the simultaneous investment in visual literacy, knowledge of the History of Culture and in the exercise of reflexive practices that work visuality in teaching-learning, can contribute to the development of the individual s autopoiesis. The process presented aims to stimulate the agents involved to find their poetic powers and, thus, involves the visual experimentation of the researcher herself. To this end, we will work with authors ranging from Paulo Freire, Bell Hooks and Jorge Larrosa Bondía, to Ailton Krenak and Humberto Maturana, as well as Georges Didi-Huberman and Jacques Rancière. Artists such as Robert Rauchenberg, Francis Alÿs, Vija Celmins, Janine Antoni and Marcelo Moscheta accompany the author s personal dive into her poetic activity in order to attest to the premises of her research.