134 Episodes

  1. Alice Potts on sweat.

    Published: 04/03/2021
  2. Thomas Thwaites on making a toaster by hand and attempting to become a goat (yes, really).

    Published: 24/02/2021
  3. Emeco's Gregg Buchbinder on recycled aluminium.

    Published: 17/02/2021
  4. Yinka Ilori on colour and narrative.

    Published: 10/02/2021
  5. Stuart Haygarth on rubbish.

    Published: 03/02/2021
  6. Juli Bolaños-Durman on recycled glass.

    Published: 27/01/2021
  7. Steve Barron on hemp (and working with Michael Jackson).

    Published: 22/12/2020
  8. Paola Antonelli on curating.

    Published: 09/12/2020
  9. Sarah Corbett on stitching and activism.

    Published: 02/12/2020
  10. Phoebe Cummings on raw clay.

    Published: 25/11/2020
  11. Tomáš Libertíny on beeswax.

    Published: 18/11/2020
  12. Peter Marigold on bio-plastic and mending (with a bit of wood thrown in too).

    Published: 11/11/2020
  13. Polly Morgan on taxidermy.

    Published: 14/10/2020
  14. Benchmark's Sean Sutcliffe talks wood and remembers Sir Terence Conran.

    Published: 07/10/2020
  15. Natsai Audrey Chieza on bacteria.

    Published: 30/09/2020
  16. Julia Lohmann on kelp (or seaweed).

    Published: 23/09/2020
  17. Esna Su on the refugee crisis and creating contemporary art from traditional Turkish craft.

    Published: 15/09/2020
  18. Dominic Wilcox on inventing.

    Published: 08/09/2020
  19. Alexis Peskine on nails.

    Published: 16/07/2020
  20. Lin Cheung on stone and the importance of jewellery.

    Published: 24/06/2020

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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.