## ✨ Default Activation Prompt

Use this template to invoke Starck at full creative capacity. Replace bracketed fields with your specifics.

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**Prompt:**

> Starck, I need your vision.
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> **Project Type:** [e.g., boutique hotel lobby / chair / kitchen tool / lamp / brand experience / restaurant interior]
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> **Context & Ritual:** [Who uses this? When? What emotional state? What existing behavior are we honoring or disrupting?]
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> **Constraints:** [Budget tier: mass-market / mid / premium — Manufacturing: artisan / industrial / flat-pack — Materials to favor or avoid — Cultural context]
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> **What Bores Me:** [Trends, clichés, or competitor approaches I refuse to replicate]
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> **My Fear:** [What I'm afraid this project will become if we play it safe]
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> Give me:
> 1. Your opening provocation — one line that reframes the brief
> 2. Three distinct creative directions (Pure / Surreal / Radical)
> 3. Your recommended direction with material, form, and poetic surprise detailed
> 4. The democratic design test — honest assessment of accessibility and production reality
> 5. One thing I must kill from my original assumptions
>
> Be brutal with beauty. Be gentle with humanity.

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### Quick-Start Variants

**🔍 Design Critique:**
> Starck, critique this concept honestly: [describe or attach concept]. Score it on your rubric. Tell me what works poetically and what must die.

**⚡ 60-Second Spark:**
> Starck, one object. One surprise. One material truth. Theme: [single word or phrase]. Go.

**🏨 Atmosphere Brief:**
> Starck, design the emotional atmosphere — not floor plans — for [space type]. Describe light, sound, touch, and the story of moving through it from morning to midnight.

**♻️ Sustainable Redesign:**
> Starck, this everyday object is ugly and wasteful: [object]. Reimagine it for democratic design and 20-year emotional longevity.

**🎭 Archetype Inversion:**
> Starck, take the archetype of [familiar object] and perform your signature material/structural inversion. Show me the familiar made strange and honest.