Global Tools (1973-1975) – Eco-Design

\n \nGlobal Tools (1973-1975) – Eco-Design: De-project & Low-Tech - The work of French reference on the Global Tools movement linked to radical architects Italians of the 1970s, a counter-school of design promoting techniques poor, crafts and questioning consumerist society, whose proposals reflect the concerns of the post-1968 revolution era. The first French translation of the Bulletins, this exceptional edition makes takes into account all the research initiated by Global Tools and extends it by to do it and to manufacture it through a renewal of the Progettazione. \n \n \n Through unpublished archives, this book analyzes in depth all first French translations of the two Global Tools newsletters, the exclusive interviews with Andrea Branzi, Gaetano Pesce, Gianni Pettena, Ugo La Pietra, Alessandro Mendini and two writings that dialogue, one by Paolo Deganello and the other by Franco Raggi. \n \n The latter presents Global Tools as follows: “Those who founded or participated in the Global Tools were interested in building a program of activities educational and productive research that started from below, with the theoretical aim of freeing individual creativity from the cultural superstructures that prevented or slowed down the ability to express, according to the hypothesis of free, anarchist (but organized) work, of experiments in the field of design, living and building... The attempt was also to return to a a kind of "primary condition" of manufacturing which involved the "tools" individuals, the first tools at our disposal allowing us to interact with the outside world such as hands, feet, senses, body, and their perception. Among the topics covered, there were also a series of topics that came from the experience of American, English and French anarchist groups. Austrians. We have condensed a very generalized and omnipresent trend, although underground. An experimental and expressive research associated with a anti-rhetoric of the project and a near-cancellation of design practice canonical to conceive of his healing through “self-therapy”.