134 Episodes

  1. Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien on card and colour.

    Published: 04/03/2022
  2. Aardman's Peter Lord on Plasticine.

    Published: 24/02/2022
  3. Alison Britton on clay.

    Published: 17/02/2022
  4. Tom Raffield on steam bending.

    Published: 10/02/2022
  5. Lucy Sparrow on felt.

    Published: 08/12/2021
  6. Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on nature and technology.

    Published: 01/12/2021
  7. Robert Penn on bread – and the politics behind baking.

    Published: 24/11/2021
  8. Carmen Hijosa on creating Pinatex (a non-woven textile made from pineapple leaves).

    Published: 17/11/2021
  9. Amin Taha on building with stone.

    Published: 10/11/2021
  10. Mark Cropper on paper and his family's extraordinary history with the material.

    Published: 06/10/2021
  11. Claire Wilcox on clothes (and her brilliant book, Patch Work)

    Published: 22/09/2021
  12. Piet Hein Eek on scrap wood, waste and making the most of 'available possibilities'.

    Published: 15/09/2021
  13. Emma Witter on animal bone.

    Published: 08/09/2021
  14. Chris Day on glassblowing, the black experience, and why dyslexia is his superpower.

    Published: 31/08/2021
  15. 1882 Ltd's Emily Johnson on manufacturing ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent.

    Published: 25/05/2021
  16. Sir John Sorrell CBE on a life in design.

    Published: 18/05/2021
  17. Garry Fabian Miller on cibachrome paper.

    Published: 11/05/2021
  18. Mark Miodownik on animate materials.

    Published: 04/05/2021
  19. Sarah Wigglesworth on building with straw.

    Published: 28/04/2021
  20. Jasleen Kaur on food.

    Published: 21/04/2021

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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.Follow us on Instagram @materialmatters.design and our website www.materialmatters.designThe Material Matters fair will return in 2025, as part of the London Design Festival.Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.