On January 12th, 1973, Archi-zoom Associati, Remo Buti, Riccardo Dalisi, Ugo La Pietra, 9999, Gaetano Pesce, Gianni Pettena, Ettore Sottsass jr., Superstudio, UFO and Zziggurat founded, in the editorial department of «Casabella», ‘Global Tools’ In their first document, published in «Casabella», 377, they defined themselves as ‘a system of workshops for the propagation of the use of natural materials, and the relevant behaviours’. Their objective was ‘to stimulate the free development of individual creativity’. Global Tools proposed themselves as a place for communication and confrontation, in which research tended to specialise in disciplinary areas, and in which collective experiences and prototypal projects should have been put into practice. The school-workshop represented an attempt, from the part of the Radical movement, not to disperse the various ventures, but to organise them, instead. Through a calendar of seminars and workshops open to the general public, the movement was trying to find their unity again, on the common grounds of a programme and activities. Born as a moment of connection, and as a hypothesis of collective research on the possible issue of a mass creativity in a ‘spare-time society’, Global Tools, in fact, never actually became operative.