The contribution focuses on the methodology of the "laboratory", seen as a place of research in which to design, elaborate and experiment with the subject, and its implementation by Francesco De Bartolomeis, starting from the 70s. Advocate and scholar of the "laboratory system", the pedagogist and art critic, considers this training approach "a favorable ground for developing creative skills" and an essential factor of education, since it offers the student the opportunity to observe with "and learn via a path of doing ”which applies direct observation, imagination, perception and contact.