Ruskin’s Gardens: A Living Archive

This project drew on the gardens Ruskin created at Brantwood, his house and estate on Coniston Water in the Lake District, during the last 28 years of his life.

In the project brief, Jenny Robbins wrote, ‘the gardens must be sustainable, working in partnership with users and the local community, creating a space that is in Ruskin’s words “beautiful, peaceful and fruitful”‘. Drawing on Ruskin’s ideas, with an eye to how the garden will change as the structures weather and the plants grow. The project included reimagining the entrance causeway as an accessible part of the garden, encouraging people to blend inside and outside at The Ruskin.

Project Leads: Professor Sandra Kemp, The Ruskin, and Dr Chris Donaldson, School of Global Affairs