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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.
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The Material Matters fair will run from 18-21 September 2024 at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, as part of the London Design Festival.
Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.
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Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.
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May 07, 2024 |
Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.
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Apr 30, 2024 |
Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.
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Feb 19, 2024 |
John Tuomey on his childhood and becoming an architect.
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on British Pasture Leather.
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Christien Meindertsma on wool (and linoleum).
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Simone Brewster on 2023, her breakthrough year.
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Dec 27, 2023 |
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass.
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Caroline Till on material futures, regenerative design, and lots more.
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson on their material change.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Goldfinger’s Marie Carlisle on wood and social good.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Michael Marriott on resourceful design and his fascination with materials.
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Alice Kettle on embroidery.
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Aug 29, 2023 |
Beatie Wolfe on making music material again and the power of art.
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Jun 28, 2023 |
Ndidi Ekubia on silver and her extraordinary, liquid-like vessels.
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Jun 06, 2023 |
Ercol chairman, Henry Tadros, on elm, beech, ash and keeping his company relevant.
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May 30, 2023 |
Donna Wilson on knitting, becoming a brand, and creating her extraordinary creatures.
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May 22, 2023 |
Julian Stair on pots, death, and using cremated ashes in his work.
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May 15, 2023 |
Paul Cocksedge on coal, metal, light, concrete and much more besides.
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Mar 17, 2023 |
Ineke Hans on designing for the circular economy.
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Mar 06, 2023 |
Darren Appiagyei on turning Banksia nuts and waste wood.
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Feb 21, 2023 |
Summer Islam on building with biomaterials.
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Feb 14, 2023 |
Keith Brymer Jones on his life in clay and TV stardom.
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Feb 07, 2023 |
Peter Apps on Aluminium Composite Material and the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Dec 16, 2022 |
Smile Plastics’ Rosalie McMillan and Adam Fairweather on recycling plastic and reviving a company.
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Dec 12, 2022 |
Aric Chen on design and energy, giving microbes agency, and lots more.
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Nov 24, 2022 |
Professor Rebecca Earley on polyester, people and pragmatism.
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Nov 17, 2022 |
LAYER's Benjamin Hubert on creating and sustaining a career in design.
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Hannah and Justin Floyd on wool (and the new material they've created from it).
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Sep 13, 2022 |
Simon Hasan on Cuir Bouilli (or boiled leather).
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Sep 06, 2022 |
Michael Young on a life in design.
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Aug 30, 2022 |
Majeda Clarke on weaving.
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Carl Clerkin on mending and narrative.
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Juliette Bigley on metal.
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May 31, 2022 |
Nigel Coates on a life in architecture.
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May 18, 2022 |
Richard McVetis on embroidery.
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May 10, 2022 |
Elaine Yan Ling Ng on eggshells.
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien on card and colour.
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Mar 04, 2022 |
Aardman's Peter Lord on Plasticine.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Alison Britton on clay.
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Feb 17, 2022 |
Tom Raffield on steam bending.
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Lucy Sparrow on felt.
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on nature and technology.
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Robert Penn on bread – and the politics behind baking.
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Nov 24, 2021 |
Carmen Hijosa on creating Pinatex (a non-woven textile made from pineapple leaves).
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Nov 17, 2021 |
Amin Taha on building with stone.
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Nov 10, 2021 |
Mark Cropper on paper and his family's extraordinary history with the material.
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Claire Wilcox on clothes (and her brilliant book, Patch Work)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Piet Hein Eek on scrap wood, waste and making the most of 'available possibilities'.
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Emma Witter on animal bone.
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Sep 08, 2021 |
Chris Day on glassblowing, the black experience, and why dyslexia is his superpower.
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Aug 31, 2021 |
1882 Ltd's Emily Johnson on manufacturing ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent.
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May 25, 2021 |
Sir John Sorrell CBE on a life in design.
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May 18, 2021 |
Garry Fabian Miller on cibachrome paper.
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May 11, 2021 |
Mark Miodownik on animate materials.
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May 04, 2021 |
Sarah Wigglesworth on building with straw.
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Apr 28, 2021 |
Jasleen Kaur on food.
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Alice Potts on sweat.
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Thomas Thwaites on making a toaster by hand and attempting to become a goat (yes, really).
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Emeco's Gregg Buchbinder on recycled aluminium.
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Yinka Ilori on colour and narrative.
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Stuart Haygarth on rubbish.
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Feb 03, 2021 |
Juli Bolaños-Durman on recycled glass.
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Steve Barron on hemp (and working with Michael Jackson).
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Dec 22, 2020 |
Paola Antonelli on curating.
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Dec 09, 2020 |
Sarah Corbett on stitching and activism.
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Dec 02, 2020 |
Phoebe Cummings on raw clay.
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Nov 25, 2020 |
Tomáš Libertíny on beeswax.
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Nov 18, 2020 |
Peter Marigold on bio-plastic and mending (with a bit of wood thrown in too).
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Nov 11, 2020 |
Polly Morgan on taxidermy.
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Oct 14, 2020 |
Benchmark's Sean Sutcliffe talks wood and remembers Sir Terence Conran.
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Oct 07, 2020 |
Natsai Audrey Chieza on bacteria.
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Julia Lohmann on kelp (or seaweed).
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Sep 23, 2020 |
Esna Su on the refugee crisis and creating contemporary art from traditional Turkish craft.
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Sep 15, 2020 |
Dominic Wilcox on inventing.
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Sep 08, 2020 |
Alexis Peskine on nails.
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Jul 16, 2020 |
Lin Cheung on stone and the importance of jewellery.
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Jun 24, 2020 |
Fernando Laposse on corn, colour and (Mexican) culture.
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Jun 02, 2020 |
Freddie Robins on knitting.
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May 12, 2020 |
SCP's Sheridan Coakley on manufacturing, retailing and pioneering British design.
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Apr 22, 2020 |
Gareth Neal on timber and technology.
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Apr 08, 2020 |
Junko Mori on metal.
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Mar 05, 2020 |
Malene Hartmann Rasmussen on film, fairytales and clay.
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Feb 26, 2020 |
John Barnard on carbon fibre.
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Feb 19, 2020 |
Daniel Charny on fixing and repair.
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Feb 12, 2020 |
Shelley James on maths, music and the magic of glass.
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Feb 05, 2020 |
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby – from plywood to (recycled) plastic.
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Jan 29, 2020 |
Corinne Julius on a life in design and a love of craft.
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Dec 18, 2019 |
Sebastian Cox on food and furniture.
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Dec 11, 2019 |
Barnaby Barford on ceramic.
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Dec 04, 2019 |
Laura Youngson Coll on vellum.
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Nov 27, 2019 |
Andrew Waugh on CLT – or cross-laminated timber.
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Nov 20, 2019 |
Bethan Laura Wood on laminate.
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Nov 13, 2019 |
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers' Han Ates on denim.
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Oct 02, 2019 |
The Design Museum's Deyan Sudjic on magazines and museums.
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Sep 25, 2019 |
Kate MccGwire on feathers.
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Sep 18, 2019 |
Peter Ting on Blanc de Chine.
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Sep 11, 2019 |
Marlene Huissoud on Propolis (or bee glue, yes, bee glue).
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Sep 04, 2019 |
Tom Dixon on welding (and other things).
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Aug 28, 2019 |
Adam Nathaniel Furman on making waves.
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May 29, 2019 |
Mourne Textiles's Mario Sierra on hand-weaving.
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May 22, 2019 |
Laura Ellen Bacon on willow.
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May 15, 2019 |
Simone ten Hompel on silver.
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May 08, 2019 |
James Shaw on plastic.
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May 01, 2019 |
Kate Malone on clay.
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Apr 24, 2019 |
Bill Amberg on leather.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
Eleanor Lakelin on timber.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
Edmund de Waal on porcelain.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
Celia Pym on darning.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
Peter Layton on glass.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
Glenn Adamson on material intelligence.
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Jan 22, 2019 |