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Episodes: 155
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: United Kingdom
YouTube: 248 subscribers
Instagram: 21.0k followers
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Grant Gibson - Design writer, curator, and podcast host focused on materials, architecture, art, making, and design practice.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Nicola Turner - Horsehair And Wool As Artistic Materials, Site-responsive Sculpture, Moving From Theatre Design Into Fine Art, And Working At Scale.
John Tuomey - The Role Of Materials In Architecture, Designing V&a East, Architectural Endurance, Lasting Value, And His Book Middle Quarter.
Joel de Mowbray - Construction Waste Reuse, Circular Construction, Salvaged Materials, Regenerative Design, And Scaling Material Recovery.
Simon Whitmarsh-Knight - Elastane, Lower-carbon Textile Production, Bio-based Materials, Traceability, Infrastructure, And Collaboration In Fashion.
Jessie French - Algae-based Materials, Systems Design, Sustainable Signage, Studio Waste, And Alternatives To Leather.
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Episodes
Artist Nicola Turner on horsehair, sheep's wool and her solo show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
September 15, 2026
Nicola Turner is a UK-based artist who is best known for her use of horsehair and wool in her extraordinary, and often quite dark, sculptures. She originally trained as a theatre designer – working for the likes of the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Sydney Opera House – before doing a Fine Art MA in her fifties. Since then, her work has featured in a string of locations – most notably, the Courtyard at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2024. Currently, she has an in...
John Tuomey on the importance of materials in architecture, designing London's V&A East, and his new book, Middle Quarter.
September 09, 2026
Dublin-based architect John Tuomey first appeared on Material Matters in 2024 to talk about his brilliant memoir, First Quarter. Now he’s written the follow-up, unsurprisingly entitled, Middle Quarter. John is the co-founder of O’Donnell + Tuomey. He was the inaugural professor of Architectural Design at University College Dublin and visiting professor at Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Over the years, he has won numerous awards, including the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, and his practice is responsib...
Reusing Construction Waste with Joel de Mowbray of Yes Make
September 01, 2026
What if the materials a building needs are already sitting in a skip down the road?Joel de Mowbray, founding director of Yes Make, joins Grant Gibson to explain how a regenerative design and build practice rescues high-quality construction materials from landfill — and builds a viable business around them. Earlier this year, Yes Make joined forces with interdisciplinary design collective Resolve Collective and architecture practice Material Cultures to launch Tipping Point East, a circular co...
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