Global Tools 1973-1975

At SALT Istanbul, an exhibition and symposium  present the major issues raised in the multidisciplinary experimental programme  founded by Radical Architecture's members.

Programmed by Silvia Franceschini and Valerio Borgonuovo for SALT, “Global Tools 1973-1975: Towards an Ecology of Design”, features a display of original documents and materials, an international symposium and a series of workshops addressing the major issues raised in Global Tools.

Among them: education, ecology, industry, survivalism, marginality, communication, body, failure, community, theory, construction, technology, handcraft and ideas around archeologies of the future.

The body and the bonds, Franco Raggi, Body Group Performance (June 1975, Milan) Courtesy Archive F. Raggi and Casabella

Global Tools was a multidisciplinary experimental program of design education founded in 1973 in Italy by the members of the Radical Architecture including Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Andrea Branzi among others. It was conceived as a diffuse system of laboratories (firstly in Florence, Milan and Naples) promoting the “[...] study and use of natural materials and their behavioural characteristics” with the support of media and aimed to establish an alternative relation with the Italian Industry.

Left: “Global Tools Bulletin”, no.1 (cover), 1974 Courtesy L'Uomo e l'Arte’nin (Milan). Right: Untitled, Franco Raggi, Body Group Performance (November 1974, Florence) Courtesy Archive A. Natalini Courtesy Archive A. Natalini


until 23 March 2014
Global Tools
1973-1975:
Towards an Ecology of Design
SALT Beyoğlu, Forum
Istanbul

15 March, h. 14,30
GLOBAL TOOLS Symposium
SALT Beyoğlu, Forum