Materiality

Multimedia Investigations


Research Projects

  1. Muck Maps
  2. River Wye Lawsuit
  3. Toxic Trade-Off
  4. Stink or Swim
  5. Unavoidable Impact
  6. Chicken Shit/Cachu Iar
  7. More Room to Perch and Play?


Design Projects

  1. Who Owns Dartmoor?
  2. Nitazenes Investigation


Related Projects*

  1. All Along the Watchtower (architecture)
  2. Give It Arrest (design)
  3. Red Rebel Brigade (photojournalism)
  4. The Mining Company (research/design)


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Materiality is a research and design collective organised by Peter Brooks and based in Bristol.
* Related projects are by Peter Brooks before forming Materiality.

River Wye Lawsuit


  • Highlight: Exhibited by Leigh Day at at Hay Literature Festival.

  • Research and design for Leigh Day.

  • Exhibited at Hay Festival by Leigh Day and at St Anne’s Bristol Open House.


Law firm Leigh Day have launched legal action against Avara Foods and Cargill one of the UK’s largest food producers, for allegedly polluting the River Wye through manure spread on farmland in the catchment area.

Muck Map used by Leigh Day at Hay Festival
Muck Map used by Leigh Day at Hay Festival
Muck Map exhibited at St Annes Open House


Materiality produced this map for Leigh Day to estimate and visualise Avara Foods/Cargill’s responsibility for manure spread near the River Wye. This map was designed as an intuitive and flexible engagement tool for Leigh Day’s events around the River Wye and displayed at Hay Literature Festival 2024.



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