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 • 132 episodes
Material Matters with Grant Gibson
Latest Episodes
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
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