Knowledge Management Model: A Productivity Tool for Creative Experience in Academic Design Programs

Modelo de gestión del conocimiento: una herramienta de productividad para la experiencia creativa en programas académicos de diseño

To propose a construct for the internalization and externalization of creative practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), with the goal of generating knowledge that contributes to institutional recognition and recognition of their participants. The model was designed as a tool to demonstrate the productivity of research-creation in design programs through a mechanism that facilitates participation, visibility, validation, and concretization of information, supported by dialogue and learning by doing. The methodology used was based on a sociocritical paradigm with a mixed approach, which allowed for the exploration and description of how creative practices are hermeneutically refined by the participants themselves. Ultimately, the study posits that program accreditation should recognize research-creation as a mode of conducting research in and through design, thus revealing its procedures and its own epistemology that validate its principles of action.