There is a tenacious sap when a publication instigates and formulates questions that stem from critical thinking. Regardless of the format, printed or digital, its power is revealed when a text dissolves certainties, sometimes paradoxical ones, and expands possibilities for interpretation.

This is what has always interested me. Poetics, moreover, nourishes the soul and my writing.

It is the stories behind the stories—the questions, more than the answers—that move me. The plurality that unfolds in the tapestry of philosophies and echoes in the most diverse expressions of human creativity. Reflections, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes synchronic, that sharpen the gaze and unveil critical layers.

Cultural Snippets is born from this incessant search. To give voice to different ways of thinking about the triad of architecture, art, and design. Over more than two decades in communication, editing, and journalism, my practice has always sought to explore reflective spheres.

In times of repetitive and empty information, this hybrid platform aims to be an experiment. It proposes attentive, unhurried reading that seeks critical density even while anchored in the online environment.

I revisit Umberto Eco's *Open Work* (1962) to explain the editorial core: the work maintains its form and is completed in relation to the reader, viewer, or listener. To this thought are added the contributions of Michel Foucault, whom I discovered during my master's degree at the Sorbonne, and poetry, which has interspersed my writing from the beginning.

In recent years, editing and writing cover stories and interviews with Gaetano Pesce, Mario Botta, Bjarke Ingels, and Carlos Motta, among others, have resonated with distinct and essential perspectives for the construction of critical thought.

The intention is to intensify the exercise of investigation, in essays, interviews, and images for enjoyment. To radiate polyhedral visions.

Fragments of a plot that are completed in the participation of the reader.

Débora Mateus