Materiality
Designs
Impact


Materiality takes a design approach that makes complex issues immediately accessible.

Our design philosophy centres your audience and we work with clients to determine what materials are needed to maximise impact and reach. We use an array of design formats and mediums to express our findings, including: interactive maps and charts, gifs, videos, print, installations, physical models and audio.

Design is a central part of project planning at Materiality. We discuss strategy, objectives and audience at the first point to determine what outputs best suit your story, and iterate on these as research progresses. We find that a targeted audience-focused design approach makes a huge difference to research engagement and impact.

Our advanced visual investigation techniques - such as mapping and satellite imagery analysis - means our research translates well into visual outputs, supporting publication and giving your audience a clear picture of the findings.

We are available to produce work that corresponds with an organisation’s design style, or, alternatively, we can create unique design languages for specific interventions and projects.

Designs:


Mapped: Pig and Poultry Farming in Northern Ireland


42,000 Chickens Exhibition



Who Owns Dartmoor?


Nitazenes Investigation


Muck Maps


River Wye Lawsuit


Toxic Trade-Off


Stink or Swim



Unavoidable Impact


Chicken Shit/Cachu Iar


More Room to Perch and Play



Projects:


Project TitleTags    Description

Mapped: Pig and Poultry Farming in Northern Ireland

Agriculture
Supply Chains
PollutionMapping the scale, spread and impact of factory farms in Northern Ireland.

Europe’s New Meat Tycoons

 Agriculture
Supply Chains
Ownership   Revealing the ownership and concentration of the European meat sector.

42,000 Chickens Exhibition

Agriculture
Animal Welfare
PollutionAn interactive exhibition showcasing the scale of intensive poultry farms.

Urban Nature Map Bristol

Cities
Green Space
Active Travel A two-sided, printed map revealing Bristol’s green and growing spaces.

Ammonia Maps

Agriculture
Pollution Revealing the communities that are most at risk from factory farm ammonia pollution.

Who Owns Dartmoor?


Ownership
Access
Transparency Making the ownership and politics of the Dartmoor portable and legible. 

Nitazenes Investigation

Health
Policing Visualising the harms of the synthetic opioid, nitazene.

Muck Maps

Agriculture
Pollution
Rivers Revealing the areas that are most at risk from factory farm nutrient pollution.

River Wye Lawsuit

Agriculture
Supply Chains
Pollution A detailed visualisation of chicken manure spreading along the Wye Valley.

Toxic Trade-Off

Housing
Agriculture
Pollution Modelling the impact of factory farm pollution on housebuilding.

Stink or Swim

Agriculture
Supply Chains
PollutionUncovering the impact and operations of the UK’s biggest meat companies.

Unavoidable Impact

Advertising
Health
Cities Analysing the distribution of advertising against measures of health and wealth. 

Chicken Shit/Cachu Iar

Agriculture
Animal Welfare
Supply Chains
Pollution Tracing harm in factory farm supply chains and their impacts. 

More Room to Perch and Play

Advertising
Agriculture
Animal Welfare
Representing the stocking density of farms in Sainsbury's supply chain.             
Materiality