The British Council’s Urban Ideas Bakery event brought together local stakeholders, external experts and social innovators from across Europe to focus on Kaunas, the second city of Lithuania, to discover and define social problems and develop and deliver design-led solutions. Gamman and Thorpe attended the event and presented bikeoff’s anti-theft bike stands as exemplars of design against crime and socially responsive design. Download here

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Thorpe, A., Johnson, S. D. and Sidebottom, A. (2009). Using targeted publicity to reduce opportunities for bicycle theft: A demonstration and replication. European Journal of Criminology. European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 6, No. 3, 267-286 (2009)

DOI: 10.1177/1477370809102168

Johnson (Co-I, Bikeoff 2) and Sidebottom (RA, Bikeoff 2) are from the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UCL.

This paper was (unusually for the journal in question) accepted for publication without revision. A reviewer commented that [the paper] is well written and has clear scientific and policy value. Experiments are (still) relatively rare in criminology.” This comment highlights the scarcity of truly interdisciplinary work between design practitioners and criminologists and the esteem in which such rigorous and pragmatic research is held.

Please see abstract here

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Thorpe, A., Gamman, L., Ekblom, P., Willcocks, M., Aiden Sidebottom, A. and Johnson, S.D. (2009). ‘Bike Off 2 – Catalysing Anti Theft Bike, Bike Parking And Information Design For The 21st Century: An Open Innovation Research Approach’ in Inns, T. (ed.) Designing for the 21st Century. Gower Publishing Ltd. P238 – 258 ISBN: 978-1-4094-0240-4.

Johnson and Sidebottom are from the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UCL.The chapter reviews the methodology developed and deployed within the Bikeoff 2 project and notes the significance of this methodology in maximising research outputs and impact.

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