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‘Transport & Security the Real Issues for 2025’ conference. September 2007 (curated by L. Gamman and Thorpe A.)
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. London
Adam Thorpe, Shane Johnson, and Aiden Sidebottom of Bikeoff presented Responses to bike theft: Design, implementation, evaluation at this conference. This presentation summarises research undertaken as part of Holborn Gateway project. It begins by introducing the problem of bicycle theft, reviews the factors that contribute to it, describes current knowledge of offender modus operandi and considers the role design can play in reducing bicycle theft. It then describes the process of developing and evaluating seven prototype bicycle parking stands installed at an on-street cycle park in central London, designed to improve cyclists locking practice and thereby reduce opportunities for bicycle theft. Results are presented which indicate that locking practice at the prototype bicycle stands was significantly better than that observed at the ‘control’ bicycle stands at the same site. The presentation ends with discussing future research aspirations and implications of the findings for bicycle theft reduction and design against crime more generally.
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Project run with MA Industrial Design students at Central Saint Martins (Course Director: Ben Hughes). The project was created by Gamman and Thorpe, the students were asked to research and document a visual narrative relating to issues of crime in and around cycle parking and storage facilities and to create proposals for a secure cycle parking facility to be located in the Southampton Row / Theobald’s Road site. Solutions could have been high-tech or lo-fi, depending on designers strengths, aspirations, and understanding of the problems. This project is about addressing the needs of cyclists and the behaviour of cycle thieves in the context of the College, and the Holborn Gateway area of the City. The aim was to design a functional, attractive and secure bicycle parking facility in this area.
