How can infrastructure be criminal? How does a road, a prison, a suburban neighbourhood or a dam become a perpetrator of violence and insecurity? Material Crimes answers these questions. Each episode investigates a different piece of infrastructure, tracing its global, colonial connections across time and space. The series shows us how physical sites of everyday life are linked to networks of private and public actors who profit from violence inflicted on spaces and communities on the margins. The series also shines a spotlight on the people-powered movements exposing and challenging the many crimes of infrastructure.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3

︎︎︎ About the Project
︎︎︎ Listening Station at Whitechapel Gallery
︎︎︎ Listening Station at Rich Mix
︎︎︎ A Guide to Making an Episode

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Season 1

000: “You are Listening to Material Crimes”

001: A Very British Massacre

002: A Train to Nowhere

003: Leaking Guantanamo

004: The White Elephant

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Season 2

000: Surviving Society Presents…

001: Murder in Melville

002: Death by Welfare

003: Gaslighting Tengratila

004: Underwater

005: Shelter on the Hill

006: Night Terror

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Season 3

001: Stop that Train

002: Location, Location, Location

003: Ghosts of the Military Road

004: “He Fell from a Piece of Soap”

005: Free Prisoners