Creative triggers ignite from unexpected connections: between materials and functions, between past and future, between design and poetry. In this issue, we explore them as catalysts capable of rethinking the way we furnish and inhabit contemporary spaces. Objects, interiors and architectures – of homes and public places alike – become evolving stages where memories intertwine and new languages are tested. In museums, the trigger becomes a metaphor of a reinterpreted past, dwelling in the present while safeguarding the future. This is vividly expressed in the projects X Museum – Studio NOR, Museu del Barroc – David Closes, Fenix – Studio MAD.
The domestic settings and interiors selected in this issue likewise speak of this transformative tension: triggers that open the tropical landscape in Costa Rica, hold memory within Texan volumes, connect lives under a shared roof in Seattle, or weave epochs into the architectural fabric of Porto.
In product design, the concept becomes even more multifaceted: as a fusion of craft and technology, as reinvention of matter, as a narrative suspended between memory and vision, as a dialogue between the natural and the artificial, reaching even the edges of the visible. The protagonist of our special Album, light emerges as the atmospheric trigger par excellence: it crosses volumes, modulates perception, conveys ideas. Each project balances technique and imagination. These are not mere objects, but devices of meaning. The creative trigger is not simply juxtaposition but a generative act that creates value. Here is where the new is born, capable of surprising us and shaping a richer, more conscious way of inhabiting.