Visiting lecturer seminar. Elisava School of Design, Barcelona. April 2007

Marcus Willcocks of Bikeoff gave the seminar Tools for a research-into-design processes as a visiting lecturer at the Elisava School of Design, Barcelona. The seminar and workshop were given in Spanish, they included examples from Bikeoff and were conducted with approximately 50 final year undergraduate design students, who proceeded to integrate processes and techniques presented, in the associated 3-month applied Anthropology of Design project.

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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A. (2007). presented the paper Profit from Paranoia – Design Against ‘Paranoid’ Products. European Academy of Design (EAD 07): Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse, Disaster, Izmir, Turkey. Published as part of conference proceedings.

Innovation is a risky business. Trying to innovate products to empower the individual against street crime, or to create designs for public space that can anticipate terrorist intentions, raise many design issues as well as what Prof. Ekblom (2005) defines as ‘troublesome tradeoffs.’ These involve safety concerns versus address to maintaining personal freedoms. This paper reviews specific ‘troublesome tradeoffs’ and makes design recommendations.

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Thorpe, A. and Gamman, L. (2007). presented the paper Liberty Versus Safety: A Design Review. European Academy of Design (EAD 07): Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse, Disaster, Izmir, Turkey.  Published as part of conference proceedings.

This paper argues that when designing against terrorism, it is important to fully understand both terrorist perpetrator techniques and terrorism prevention principles and to establish the myths and realities about ‘fear of terrorism’, before catalyzing new design innovations or design policy. One of two academic papers prepared for the EAD conference Dancing for Disorder (different seminar strands), this paper assesses the requirement for designers to mediate issues of user liberty versus security. We assess the troublesome design tradeoffs between accommodation of users and exclusion of terrorist misuse and abuse linked to bicycle parking, using the Conjunction of Terrorism Opportunity framework.  We include the case study of the Biceberg automated bike parking system in relation to the fitness for purpose versus resistance to terrorism debate, to illustrate that design performance can be counter intuitive and thus benefit from rigorous evaluation.

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