Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Hearld on collage.
Season 18 Episode 7
Mark Hearld is an artist and designer who has a fascination with flora and fauna and has worked in a range of different media – including lithographi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Todd Bracher on light (and designing Net Positive products).
Season 18 Episode 6
Todd Bracher is a US-based product designer who has worked with brands such as Humanscale, 3M, Herman Miller, Georg Jensen and Issey Miyake through h…
1 year, 9 months ago
Zena Holloway on grass roots.
Season 18 Episode 5
Zena Holloway is a bio-designer and founder of Rootfull, which creates exquisite clothes, lights and sculptures from grass roots.
She started her car…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alkesh Parmar on orange peel.
Season 18 Episode 4
Alkesh Parmar is a designer and researcher. Over the years, he has hollowed out champagne corks and turned them into chandeliers, as well as transfor…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sanne Visser on human hair.
Season 18 Episode 3
Sanne Visser is a Dutch-born, London-based designer. She describes herself as a ‘material explorer, maker and researcher’, who is best known for a st…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bharti Kher on material alchemy and her fascination with bindis.
Season 18 Episode 2
Artist Bharti Kher was brought up in England before moving to India almost on a whim in the early ’90s. Since then, she has established herself as a …
2 years ago
Oliver Heath on biophilic design.
Season 18 Episode 1
Oliver Heath is a designer, architect, author and one of the world’s leading advocates for biophilic design. Along with his team and the sustainable …
2 years ago
Ernest Scheyder on lithium, mining, and the politics behind going green.
Season 17 Episode 10
Ernest Scheyder is an author and senior correspondent for Reuters. His new book, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our L…
2 years, 2 months ago
Adi Toch on why she buries copper.
Season 17 Episode 9
Adi Toch is one of the world’s most fascinating metal artists, who over the years has buried her pieces for months on end before digging them up, and…
2 years, 3 months ago
Human Nature's Jonathan Smales on mining the Anthropocene, and building in timber and Hempcrete at The Phoenix.
Season 17 Episode 8
Jonathan Smales is a housing developer like few others. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Human Nature, whose new project, The Phoenix, …
2 years, 3 months ago