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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Material Matters with Grant Gibson
Latest Episodes
Artist Nicola Turner on horsehair, sheep's wool and her solo show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Nicola Turner is a UK-based artist who is best known for her use of horsehair and wool in her extraordinary, and often quite dark, sculptures. She originally trained as a theatre designer – working for the likes of the National Theatre, Royal S...
John Tuomey on the importance of materials in architecture, designing London's V&A East, and his new book, Middle Quarter.
Dublin-based architect John Tuomey first appeared on Material Matters in 2024 to talk about his brilliant memoir, First Quarter. Now he’s written the follow-up, unsurprisingly entitled, Middle Quarter. John is the co-founder of O’Do...
Reusing Construction Waste with Joel de Mowbray of Yes Make
What if the materials a building needs are already sitting in a skip down the road?Joel de Mowbray, founding director of Yes Make, joins Grant Gibson to explain how a regenerative design and build practice rescues high-quality constructi...
Bonus episode: Hyosung TNC's Simon Whitmarsh-Knight on creating elastane from sugar cane.
Welcome to another summer bonus episode of Material Matters with Grant Gibson, this time in association with Hyosung TNC.In this special episode, Grant talks to the South Korean company’s marketing and sustainability director, Simon Whit...
Bonus episode: Algae, sustainability and systems design with Rebecca Lawson of Aesop and Jessie French of Other Matter
Can algae reshape a global beauty brand's material future? In this special summer bonus episode — recorded live at Aesop's Copenhagen store during 3daysofdesign — Grant Gibson is joined by Rebecca Lawson, Aesop's head of sustainability, and mul...
