The experimental work of Antoni Gaudí and Frei Otto have been the precedentsof what is currently called form-finding, a methodology based on rules andphysical forces of nature that promotes principles of transformation as a result ofthe relationship between form, material and structure. This text shows the firstresults of the research titled as Form-finding methodology as strategy forformative research in industrial design education, with an empirical-analyticalapproach through action-research based method and usingcollaborative-participatory tools. As a result of the analysis of different cases inthe first stage of the research, a basic methodological proposal is made, thismethodological proposal is aimed to find new research possibilities for theidentification of morphological characteristics to be used in design projects in theearly creative phases (ideation and experimentation); the methodologicalproposal stages are the following: selection of technique, design of theexperimentation, experimentation, analysis and discussion.