Guest-edited by Pedro Álvarez Caselli, Hugo Palmarola and Nicole Cristi, this issue explores important historiographic questions, such as those referring to the uses and adaptations of certain technologies; who are the actors that assimilate these processes of technological change; how they affect the particularities of each geographical and cultural environment; how they affect the practice of the designer; and what consequences these prac­tices have on the creative and productive processes, among other.