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.

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.

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

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