The term STEM was first coined by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States in the mid-nineties. STEM was the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Shortly after, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, art education joined these four subjects to give birth to what we know today as STEAM.

In education, the use of new methodologies has increased in multidisciplinary projects. Without a doubt, they allow the incorporation of curricular knowledge of subjects such as art, science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, technology etc and, at the same time, they work on specific competences, attitudes and behaviours such as teamwork, digital competence, initiative or decision making. In these projects, technology acts as a link, either because the projects are based on creating, using or developing something new or because they need to be communicated through ICT.

In this course, we focus on the study of one of the most famous and recognized artists of the last centuries, Antoni Gaudí. Gaudí had the ability, already from the nineteenth century, to capture, analyse and integrate the characteristics of his environment in his works as an architect and as an interior designer. We will analyse how the natural structures of different plants were integrated to form new innovative structures, the mathematical connections in his works and the integration of geometry in them. All these and more, were perfectly combined by his genius artistic ability. Gaudí is a metaphor for what STEAM methodology intends, that is, to develop the curricular matters of the scientific-mathematical field, always with art as the engine that generates innovation and creativity in process.

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