Global Tools: when education coincides with life.

mardi 18 février 2025
à 13:00
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GLOBAL TOOLS 1973-1975: when education coincides with life documents and tells the story of the eponymous radical design experiment and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers". A journey that begins with its founding in 1973, by groups and figures belonging to Italian radical architecture, Arte Povera and conceptual art, and ends in 1975, after three years of intense experimentation.

Biography
Silvia Franceschini is a curator, researcher and author working in the fields of visual arts, design and architecture. She is currently curator of contemporary art at CIVA in Brussels. Previously, she curated Z33 in Hasselt. Her curatorial projects include: participation in the curatorial team of The School of Kyiv - Kyiv Biennial 2015; the exhibition Global Tools 1973 - 1975: Towards an Ecology of Design, SALT, Istanbul (2014).
Silvia Franceschini has published widely on comparative modernities, critical pedagogies and the creation of alternative institutions. In her thesis entitled Toward an Ecology of Knowledges: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Contemporary Visual Art and Design Practices, she explores historical and contemporary theory and practice in this field. She is editor of The Politics of Affinity. Experiments in Art, Education and the Social Sphere, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, 2018, and co-author of Global Tools 1973-1975. When Education Coincides With Life, Nero Publishing, 2019. Finally, Silvia is also a collaborator at Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, where she is on the faculty of the Design, Creativity and Social Practices master's program.