Material Matters with Grant Gibson
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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.design
Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.
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Bonnie Hvillum on biomaterials and 'redefining wood'.
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Anglepoise's Simon Terry on durability, repair and creating an icon.
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Lulu Harrison on making glass from the River Thames.
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Robin Givhan on her new book, Make it Ours, and how Virgil Abloh changed fashion.
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Sabine Marcelis on recycled aluminium and resin.
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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AHEC's David Venables on US hardwood forests and using what nature provides.
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Rosa Whiteley on shells and creating a new building material.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Claudy Jongstra on working with wool and creating her own biodynamic farm.
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May 12, 2025 |
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Tim Minshall on manufacturing, tariffs, silicon, and green hushing.
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Seetal Solanki on olive tree roots, cooking, and why materials matter.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Callum Robinson on wood and his new book Ingrained.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Neil Brownsword on clay and safeguarding skill.
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Zandra Rhodes on pattern, colour, and textiles.
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Aaron Betsky on why architects should stop building (and reuse instead).
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Nicole Rycroft on viscose and her mission to save the world's endangered forests.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Mark Hearld on collage.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Todd Bracher on light (and designing Net Positive products).
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Zena Holloway on grass roots.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Alkesh Parmar on orange peel.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Sanne Visser on human hair.
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Bharti Kher on material alchemy and her fascination with bindis.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Oliver Heath on biophilic design.
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Ernest Scheyder on lithium, mining, and the politics behind going green.
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Adi Toch on why she buries copper.
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May 23, 2024 |
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Human Nature's Jonathan Smales on mining the Anthropocene, and building in timber and Hempcrete at The Phoenix.
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May 14, 2024 |
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Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.
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May 07, 2024 |
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Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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John Tuomey on his childhood in rural Ireland, becoming an architect, and his beautiful memoir, First Quarter.
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on making ethical leather.
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Christien Meindertsma on wool (and linoleum).
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Simone Brewster on cork and creating 'intimate architecture'.
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass.
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Caroline Till on material futures, regenerative design, and lots more.
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson on how materials have changed their practice.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Goldfinger’s Marie Carlisle on an extraordinary social enterprise that's centred around wood.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Michael Marriott on resourceful design and his fascination with materials.
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Alice Kettle on embroidery.
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Beatie Wolfe on making music material again and the power of art.
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Ndidi Ekubia on silver and her extraordinary, liquid-like vessels.
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Ercol chairman, Henry Tadros, on elm, beech, ash and keeping his company relevant.
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May 30, 2023 |
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Donna Wilson on knitting, becoming a brand, and creating her extraordinary creatures.
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May 22, 2023 |
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Julian Stair on pots, death, and using cremated ashes in his work.
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May 15, 2023 |
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Paul Cocksedge on coal, metal, light, concrete and much more besides.
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Ineke Hans on designing for the circular economy.
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Darren Appiagyei on turning Banksia nuts and waste wood.
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Summer Islam on building with biomaterials.
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Keith Brymer Jones on his life in clay and TV stardom.
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Peter Apps on Aluminium Composite Material and the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Smile Plastics’ Rosalie McMillan and Adam Fairweather on recycling plastic and reviving a company.
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Aric Chen on design and energy, giving microbes agency, and lots more.
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Professor Rebecca Earley on polyester, people and pragmatism.
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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LAYER's Benjamin Hubert on creating and sustaining a career in design.
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Hannah and Justin Floyd on wool (and the new material they've created from it).
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Simon Hasan on Cuir Bouilli (or boiled leather).
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Michael Young on a life in design.
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Majeda Clarke on weaving.
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Carl Clerkin on mending and narrative.
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Juliette Bigley on metal.
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May 31, 2022 |
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Nigel Coates on a life in architecture.
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May 18, 2022 |
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Richard McVetis on embroidery.
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May 10, 2022 |
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Elaine Yan Ling Ng on eggshells.
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien on card and colour.
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Aardman's Peter Lord on Plasticine.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Alison Britton on clay.
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Tom Raffield on steam bending.
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Lucy Sparrow on felt.
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on nature and technology.
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Robert Penn on bread – and the politics behind baking.
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Carmen Hijosa on creating Pinatex (a non-woven textile made from pineapple leaves).
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Amin Taha on building with stone.
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Mark Cropper on paper and his family's extraordinary history with the material.
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Claire Wilcox on clothes (and her brilliant book, Patch Work)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Piet Hein Eek on scrap wood, waste and making the most of 'available possibilities'.
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Emma Witter on animal bone.
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Chris Day on glassblowing, the black experience, and why dyslexia is his superpower.
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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1882 Ltd's Emily Johnson on manufacturing ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent.
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May 25, 2021 |
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Sir John Sorrell CBE on a life in design.
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May 18, 2021 |
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Garry Fabian Miller on cibachrome paper.
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May 11, 2021 |
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Mark Miodownik on animate materials.
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May 04, 2021 |
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Sarah Wigglesworth on building with straw.
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Jasleen Kaur on food.
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Alice Potts on sweat.
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Thomas Thwaites on making a toaster by hand and attempting to become a goat (yes, really).
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Emeco's Gregg Buchbinder on recycled aluminium.
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Yinka Ilori on colour and narrative.
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Stuart Haygarth on rubbish.
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Juli Bolaños-Durman on recycled glass.
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Steve Barron on hemp (and working with Michael Jackson).
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Paola Antonelli on curating.
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Sarah Corbett on stitching and activism.
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Phoebe Cummings on raw clay.
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Tomáš Libertíny on beeswax.
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Peter Marigold on bio-plastic and mending (with a bit of wood thrown in too).
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Polly Morgan on taxidermy.
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Benchmark's Sean Sutcliffe talks wood and remembers Sir Terence Conran.
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Natsai Audrey Chieza on bacteria.
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Julia Lohmann on kelp (or seaweed).
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Esna Su on the refugee crisis and creating contemporary art from traditional Turkish craft.
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Dominic Wilcox on inventing.
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Alexis Peskine on nails.
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Lin Cheung on stone and the importance of jewellery.
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Fernando Laposse on corn, colour and (Mexican) culture.
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Freddie Robins on knitting.
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May 12, 2020 |
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SCP's Sheridan Coakley on manufacturing, retailing and pioneering British design.
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Gareth Neal on timber and technology.
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Junko Mori on metal.
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Malene Hartmann Rasmussen on film, fairytales and clay.
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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John Barnard on carbon fibre.
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Daniel Charny on fixing and repair.
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Shelley James on maths, music and the magic of glass.
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby – from plywood to (recycled) plastic.
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Corinne Julius on a life in design and a love of craft.
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Sebastian Cox on food and furniture.
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Barnaby Barford on ceramic.
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Laura Youngson Coll on vellum.
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Andrew Waugh on CLT – or cross-laminated timber.
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Bethan Laura Wood on laminate.
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Blackhorse Lane Ateliers' Han Ates on denim.
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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The Design Museum's Deyan Sudjic on magazines and museums.
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Kate MccGwire on feathers.
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Peter Ting on Blanc de Chine.
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Marlene Huissoud on Propolis (or bee glue, yes, bee glue).
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Tom Dixon on welding (and other things).
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Adam Nathaniel Furman on making waves.
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May 29, 2019 |
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Mourne Textiles's Mario Sierra on hand-weaving.
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May 22, 2019 |
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Laura Ellen Bacon on willow.
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May 15, 2019 |
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Simone ten Hompel on silver.
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May 08, 2019 |
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James Shaw on plastic.
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May 01, 2019 |
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Kate Malone on clay.
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Bill Amberg on leather.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Eleanor Lakelin on timber.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Edmund de Waal on porcelain.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Celia Pym on darning.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Peter Layton on glass.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Glenn Adamson on material intelligence.
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Jan 22, 2019 |