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SALT released "Global Tools 1973-1975"
United Kingdom Architecture News - Jul 07, 2015 - 10:41 11507 views
Global Tools, Editorial offices of Casabella, 12th January 1973. Photo by Carlo Bachi, Archive Casabella; image via SALT
Global Tools was imagined as a school of arts and crafts and an anti-disciplinary attempt to establish a platform for the free exchange of different ideas and experiences: a place suited for the stimulation of individual creativity and the development of human potentialities. All within the more general perspective of continuing education, seen as “the only possible goal beyond the end of institutional- ized education.” This initiative, intended to open up a period of experimentation among classes and students, was to have implemented a wide range of innovative processes in its functioning, from the viewpoint of both educational tools and also that of content......Continue Reading
Global Tools Bulletin 1, Edizioni L’uomo e l’arte, Milan, June 1974, Cover by Remo Buti; image via SALT
For the first time in the forty years that have passed since its formation, the experience of the Global Tools counter-school has been brought together in book form, uniting the images and archive documents that were produced over the few short years of its existence. This volume is compiled to chronicle and evaluate the three years of seminar activity that took place between Florence, Milan and Naples in the early 1970s, bringing to a wider audience the story of this tentative attempt to realize an experimental dispersed educational program that would serve as an alternative to the university as an institutional model of reference.
The aim of Global Tools 1973-1975 is to provide a tool for the understanding and reconstruction of the experience shared by, among others, the architects and designers Ettore Sottsass Jr., Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Riccardo Dalisi, Remo Buti, Ugo La Pietra, Franco Raggi, Davide Mosconi, and members of the groups Archizoom, 9999, Superstudio, UFO and Zziggurat; conceptual artists and intellectuals Franco Vaccari, Giuseppe Chiari, Luciano Fabro and Germano Celant. The book also contextualizes Global Tools within a more complex network of references and connections. The critical perspectives offered by the contributions of experts and scholars are employed to shed light on those aspects of contemporary experience shared by this pedagogical utopia with the wider world.
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