Design for Commercial Spaces seminar. Instituto Europeo de Diseño (IED), Barcelona. July 2008

Marcus Willcocks of Bikeoff was invited to give the paper Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Design at the Design for Commercial Spaces seminar at Instituto Europeo de Diseño (IED), Barcelona in July 2008. He presented to MA students and staff from approximately 10 countries. The presentation introduces concepts from Design Against Crime and Bikeoff and describes iterative design processes as examples of socially responsive design.

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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A (July 2008) presented the paper Less is More – What Design Against Crime Can Contribute To Sustainability, Changing the Change Conference, Turin.

This paper, given at the largest conference on design and sustainability to date, argues that design against crime constitutes sustainable design because it attempts to anticipate and design out crime and other problems from a system at the outset, in a sustainable way, rather than addressing them after they have arisen, often resulting in unsatisfactory or unsustainable design. It is written in seven sections that explain the DAC Evolved Twin Track Model of the Design Process (2007), developed and applied within the Bikeoff project in the creation of design benchmarks for secure bike parking.

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