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about
MANUPORT is a design practice rooted in material exploration and movement. Objects shaped by travels and the physical qualities of natural materials such as leather, minerals, fossils, and wood. Place and analog photography inform form and color, while function remains central. Each piece is made to order, designed to be used and lived with — part of daily rituals rather than display. Familiar, but not generic. Simple, but not neutral.
Originally an archaelogical term, a manuport refers to a natural object carried by humans across landscapes — displaced, recontextualized, and given new meaning through movement.
MNPRT draws from this idea, translating materials, places, and encounters into functional objects shaped by use and time, extending Irene Ragusini’s sculptural practice into the scale of everyday life: an ongoing atlas of materials and movement, rendered through objects of utility, intimacy, and permanence. All visual references within the practice originate from analog photographs taken during her journeys, forming a personal archive that guides palette, texture, and form.
