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 • 129 episodes
Material Matters with Grant Gibson
Latest Episodes
Seetal Solanki on olive tree roots, cooking, and why materials matter.
Seetal Solanki describes herself as a materials translator and has been in the vanguard of material thinking since she launched her practice, Ma-tt-er, in 2015. Three years later she produced the hugely influential book, Why Mat...
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Season 19
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Episode 3
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57:19
Callum Robinson on wood and his new book Ingrained.
Callum Robinson makes all sorts of things out of wood, as well as being the creative director of Method Studio, the company he established with his wife, Marisa Giannasi, 15 years ago. In 2024, he published a fascinating, lyrical me...
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Season 19
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Episode 2
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53:38
Neil Brownsword on clay and safeguarding skill.
Neil Brownsword is one of the most intriguing – and uncompromising – ceramic artists currently practicing in the UK. His work is inspired by the de-industrialisation of his home city, Stoke-on-Trent, and, appropriately enough, his career in cer...
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Season 19
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Episode 1
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58:49
Zandra Rhodes on pattern, colour, and textiles.
Zandra Rhodes is one of the most recognisable and influential figures in fashion, as well as the founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Describing herself as both ‘chaotic’ and ‘fastidious’, she possesses a unique sens...
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Season 18
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Episode 10
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50:27
Aaron Betsky on why architects should stop building (and reuse instead).
Aaron Betsky is a US-based writer, educator and critic, who has served as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, as well as a curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Ar...
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Season 18
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Episode 9
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57:28