Podcast Episodes
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Season 19 Episode 7
David Venables is the European director for the American Hardwood Export Council. Over the last 20 years, the organisation has created an array of ex…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rosa Whiteley on shells and creating a new building material.
Season 19 Episode 6
Rosa Whiteley is a designer, writer and researcher, who trained as an architect at Manchester School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art.
Su…
1 year, 3 months ago
Claudy Jongstra on working with wool and creating her own biodynamic farm.
Season 19 Episode 5
Claudy Jongstra is a Dutch artist and designer who has become globally renowned for her, often monumental, textile installations and tapestries made …
1 year, 3 months ago
Tim Minshall on manufacturing, tariffs, silicon, and green hushing.
Season 19 Episode 4
Tim Minshall is an expert in manufacturing and innovation. He is the inaugural Dr John C Taylor professor of innovation at the University of Cambridg…
1 year, 5 months ago
Seetal Solanki on olive tree roots, cooking, and why materials matter.
Season 19 Episode 3
Seetal Solanki describes herself as a materials translator and has been in the vanguard of material thinking since she launched her practice, Ma-tt-e…
1 year, 6 months ago
Callum Robinson on wood and his new book Ingrained.
Season 19 Episode 2
Callum Robinson makes all sorts of things out of wood, as well as being the creative director of Method Studio, the company he established with his w…
1 year, 6 months ago
Neil Brownsword on clay and safeguarding skill.
Season 19 Episode 1
Neil Brownsword is one of the most intriguing – and uncompromising – ceramic artists currently practicing in the UK. His work is inspired by the de-i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Zandra Rhodes on pattern, colour, and textiles.
Season 18 Episode 10
Zandra Rhodes is one of the most recognisable and influential figures in fashion, as well as the founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.…
1 year, 8 months ago
Aaron Betsky on why architects should stop building (and reuse instead).
Season 18 Episode 9
Aaron Betsky is a US-based writer, educator and critic, who has served as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Netherlands Architecture Inst…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nicole Rycroft on viscose and her mission to save the world's endangered forests.
Season 18 Episode 8
Nicole Rycroft is the founder and executive director of the award-winning environmental not-for-profit, Canopy. Since it launched in 1999, the Vancou…
1 year, 9 months ago