Description
This seminar takes Global Tools, the 1970s experimental design program of Italian Radical Architecture, as a conceptual framework for graduate and post-graduate research and a historical instrument for understanding the present. Taking shape at a moment when globalization remained contested and unsettled—encompassing cybernetics, cross-cultural exchange, and technological imagination—Global Tools advanced a design practice that engaged the full spectrum of human technical capacity outside commodity production. The distance between that moment and our own renders both more legible. Four core themes—Theory, Body, Construction, and Communication—re-contextualize Global Tools within contemporary discourse. Theory draws on Gilbert Simondon's individuation and Yuk Hui's cosmotechnics to ask how technology shapes (and is shaped by) different cultural worlds. Body examines embodied and disembodied experience—the body as an intelligence that exceeds what we can fully account for—through Hodakov