Departmental seminar, Sociology, University of Surrey. November 2008

Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff gave a departmental seminar entitled Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design at the University of Surrey. This academic presentation drew on the unfolding experience of the Bikeoff project, and others, in identifying a range of challenges to the theory and practice of situational crime prevention, and introduced some of the new concepts, frameworks and terms to a range of social researchers.

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Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) have won the CityRacks Design Compertition, beating our favoured design by Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs (which we previously wrote about) to second place. The indoor prize had two winners, RSVP Studio and Jessica Lee and Anthony Lau.
More information available on the CityRacks Design Competition website.

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Adam Thorpe (Director, Bikeoff) attended a British Council event in Moscow from 29 October- 1 November 2008 aimed at catalysing both design and social innovation. The event was part of a pan-European programme called The Network Effect and was based around a two day seminar combining traditional plenary/ workshop debates with peer review visits to organisations in the city. The Moscow Network Effect event was focused on the Identity of Cities and topics included subversive cities and conflict and cities. The conference addresses a diverse range of topics, but all of them are trying to answer the question: “What sort of Europe do we want to live in?” For more information, please see the British Council website here

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