Article ID: CBB001201122

Creative Living, Ecological Design and Russel Wright's Manitoga (2012)

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With contemporary designers increasingly focusing on environmental considerations, design historians have begun the search for precedents that might reconstruct design history in sustainable terms. An essential step in this reconstruction will be further consideration of design as an extended ecological practice or process, rather than the previously narrow focus on the production, consumption and mediation of discrete, finished artefacts. This article examines design as an ecological practice through a close analysis of American designer Russel Wright's home, studio, and woodland garden, Manitoga. Integrating architecture, interior, and landscape design into an environmental gesamtkunstwerk, Manitoga is a largely forgotten proto-ecological design project of the 1950s. However, Manitoga is more than simply a historical site, and is reconsidered here as a project that combines Wright's `creative living' ideals and design processes, one that remains provocative over fifty years later.

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Authors & Contributors
Schleper, Simone
Tribbett, Krystal L.
Woodhouse, Keith M.
Slattery, Deirdre
Rosmarino, Nicole Jeanne
Robertson, Morgan
Concepts
Environmentalism
Environmental protection
Ecology
Conservation of natural resources
Science and politics
Environmental sciences
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Antarctica
Missouri (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Europe
Canada
Institutions
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO
Australian Academy of Science
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