Material Matters with Grant Gibson
In Material Matters, host Grant Gibson talks to a designer, maker, artist, architect, engineer, or scientist about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discovers how it changed their lives and careers.
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The Material Matters fair will return in 2025, as part of the London Design Festival.
Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.
Podcasting since 2019 • 134 episodes
Material Matters with Grant Gibson
Latest Episodes
Sabine Marcelis on recycled aluminium and resin.
Sabine Marcelis is a Rotterdam-based designer and artist who, in her own words, is ‘forever in search of magical moments within materials’. She’s probably best known for her work in glass, resin and stone, which often plays with light and water...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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54:09
AHEC's David Venables on US hardwood forests and using what nature provides.
David Venables is the European director for the American Hardwood Export Council. Over the last 20 years, the organisation has created an array of extraordinary installations, sculptures and products – working with the likes of Alison Brooks, W...
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Season 19
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Episode 7
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58:04
Rosa Whiteley on shells and creating a new building material.
Rosa Whiteley is a designer, writer and researcher, who trained as an architect at Manchester School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. Subsequently, she has worked within Cooking Sections, the Turner Prize nominated desi...
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Season 19
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Episode 6
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55:47
Claudy Jongstra on working with wool and creating her own biodynamic farm.
Claudy Jongstra is a Dutch artist and designer who has become globally renowned for her, often monumental, textile installations and tapestries made from wool. After establishing her studio in Friesland in the Dutch countryside duri...
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Season 19
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Episode 5
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56:09
Tim Minshall on manufacturing, tariffs, silicon, and green hushing.
Tim Minshall is an expert in manufacturing and innovation. He is the inaugural Dr John C Taylor professor of innovation at the University of Cambridge, the head of the Engineering Department’s Institute for Manufacturing and a fellow of Churchi...
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Season 19
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Episode 4
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1:09:04