Random Materials Podcasts

Surviving climate change, resource depletion, the energy crisis – and staying in control

Categories: News

Tags: climate, CO2, crc, energy, materials, Nuclear, oil, population, renewables, solar, sustainability, waste, water, wind, XR

This is a show about building a better world. Literally. The construction industry might seem like a conservative place, but we’re changing it. Building Good is a platform for conversations around topics like indigenous architecture, hiring and retaining women in trades and building sustainable energy grids. We want to build a better world, and we think the way to do that starts with the construction industry… so come and help us build good.

Categories: Business, Government, Society & Culture

Tags: architecture, b corp, beginning, better, blueprints, breaking, building, building good, buildinggood, business, chandos, change, collaborators, communities, community, company, construction, contribute, core, customers, driven, engaging, Episodes, equity, ethical consumption, forward, future, futurism, Good, goodwill, house, improvement, inclusion, indigenous, industry, industry transformation, initiatives, Innovation, innovator, instinct, jen hancock, level, listen, livelihoods, materials, minds, non-profit, operate, Operators, PACE, people, Place, places, planet, planning, Podcast, policy, possible, productivity, profitability, Projects, purpose, revolutions, social procurement, Solutions, suppliers, sustainability, systems, Transformation

In the Making explores what it is to be a maker with discussions between Jim Biddulph and a host of creatives from an array of industries.

Produced by Start Again Productions

Artwork by Rich Heneghan with photography by Ollie Harrop

Music by Broke For Free

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Categories: Arts, Business

Tags: art, colour, creativity, design, film, freelance, interviews, Literature, makers, Making, materials, music, photography

This is the podcast from the Government Affairs Office of the Materials Research Society

Categories: Government

Tags: government, materials, national, policy, science

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 at London’s Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Arts, Ceramics, craft, darning, glass, handmade, leather, makers, materials, Pottery, textiles, timber, wood, woodturning

How do you start to design a product? Can drawing techniques be learned? And why is modelling such a useful technique? This album introduces the basic skills necessary to communicate ideas on paper, as well as revealing the step-by-step processes for making three-dimensional models of objects, showing perspective in drawings and sketching complex objects. It also features a case study of the Strida folding bicycle, an idea taken from initial drawings to marketed product. This material forms part of The Open University course T211 Design and designing.

Categories: Education

Tags: bicycle, bike, cycle, cycling, design, development, invention, low cost, materials, Resources, Strida, Technology

Trace Material breaks down the building blocks of our constructed environment, one material at a time. What can plastic tell us about suburbanization? What does redlining have to do with lead paint? And how did a president’s bias shape what our walls are made of?

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: architecture, climate change, Culture, design, environment, health, History, materials