Changing the Change Conference, Turin. July 2008.
The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place. Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe were invited to present the paper Less is More – What Design Against Crime Can Contribute To Sustainability at the conference. The paper argues that design against crime constitutes sustainable design because it attempts to anticipate and design out crime and other problems from the system in the first place, in a sustainable way, rather than solving them after they have arisen, often linked to inconsiderate design. It is written in seven sections that attempt to argue with Paul Cozens that “the ubiquitous issue of crime and the fear of crime are included within some sustainability frameworks, but arguably need to be explicitly integrated” (Cozens 2007, 187-196). www.changingthechange.org/
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