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‘Reducing the Risk of Bicycle Theft’ poster at ASC |
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American Society of Criminology Annual Conference. St Louis, USA. November 2008.
Lorraine Gamman, Shane Johnson, Aiden Sidebottom and Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff were invited to present the poster Design Against Crime: Reducing the Risk of Bicycle Theft at this conference.
The American Society of Criminology annual 2009 meeting, held in St. Louis, Missouri, featured sessions on evidence-based crime prevention, corporate crime prevention, violence and animal cruelty, school-based crime prevention and innovative approaches to crime prevention. Poster sessions were intended to present research in a format that is easy to scan and absorb quickly and was designed to facilitate more in-depth discussion of the research than is typically possible in a symposium format. The ‘Design Against Crime: Reducing the Risk of Bicycle Theft’ poster looked at recent research findings emanating from the BikeOff 2 project which aimed to better understand how cyclists lock their bicycles in public spaces and if targeted design-based interventions can reduce the likelihood of theft.
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Tags: 2008, Adam Thorpe, Aiden Sidebottom, Bikeoff Outputs, Lorraine Gamman, presentations, Shane Johnson
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‘What Makes Cities Creative’ workshop in Warsaw, Poland |
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What Makes Cities Creative workshop in Warsaw, Poland, March 2008.
Professor Lorraine Gamman of Bikeoff was invited to the What Makes Cities Creative workshop in Warsaw in March 2008. The event was coordinated by Charlie Leadbeater for the British Council. Gamman presented The Dark Side Of Creativity In Cities. The workshop brought together 30 ‘urban innovators’ and city partners from the participating countries and examined the people, places and practices that make cities creative places.
www.charlieleadbeater.net
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‘Putting The Brakes On Bicycle Theft’ at New London Architecture |
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Putting the Brakes on Bicycle Theft (December 2008 – January 2009) New London Architecture
Curators: Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A.
An exhibition featuring many of the original exhibits shown at the Barbican Centre, re-contextualised and redesigned for New London Architecture, aimed at an architectural audience, was displayed for 6 weeks showcasing bike parking designs that make life easier for cyclists and harder for bike thieves. New work created for this event included upgraded visual material and a video installation of designers talking about their designs.
– Design Exemplars for Secure Cycling exhibition catalogue
Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A. (2008) Putting the Brakes on Bicycle Theft
This catalogue accompanied the “Putting the Brakes on Bicycle Theft 2” exhibition, created for New London Architecture, which showcased new bike parking design that make life easier for cyclists and harder for bike thieves. It also presented Bikeoff.org’s open access online design resource which aims to help a multi agency audience including architects to “get smart quick” about bike theft and innovate secure cycling infrastructure for our cities.
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‘Evaluating Efforts to Design Out Bicycle Theft’ at Edinburgh |
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Aiden Sidebottom, Adam Thorpe and Shane Johnson of Bikeoff were invited to present Evaluating Efforts to Design Out Bicycle Theft at the eighth European Society of Criminology conference held at the University of Edinburgh in September 2008.
This presented findings from the recent evaluation of two design-based interventions intended to reduce opportunities for bicycle theft: a communication-based strategy in the form of stickers attached to bicycle parking stands, and prototype bicycle parking stands. The paper opens by describing the problem of bicycle theft and its relevance to current policy targets regarding sustainable transport. Following the description of the two design-based interventions, findings are presented from the evaluations of their impact of intervention on cyclists locking practice. Finally, the implications of the findings for further research are discussed.
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Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design for Public Space |
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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A. (September 2008) presented the paper Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design for Public Space, Design In Public Space: Safety conference, Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise, Cieszyn, Poland
The paper Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design for Public Space argued that design against crime constitutes sustainable design because it attempts to anticipate and design out crime and other problems from public space, in a sustainable way, rather than solving problems after they have arisen, with inconsiderate design. Bikeoff designs and exemplars were shown and discussed.
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‘The Bikeoff Initiative…’ at Catalan Congress of the Bicycle |
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Lorraine Gamman and Marcus Willcocks of Bikeoff were invited to present ‘The Bikeoff Initiative, Cycle Theft Versus Socially Responsive Innovation’ to an audience of over 100 cycle stakeholders, from approximately 15 countries at the 2nd Catalan Congress of the Bicycle (2º Congreso Catalán de la Bicicleta), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain in June 2008. The PDF presentation of the above was distributed on disk to over 350 cycle-stakeholder delegates who attended the conference, from over 20 countries. (Meritxell Hernandez Gil (January 2009), ECA Global Foundation and organisers of the Catalan Congress of the Bicycle). Presentation paper and images quoted various times in the first Spanish national cycle parking manual (see Publications) following this output.
Presentation is publicly accessible for download, via the Documents section of http://www.congresbicicat.org/english/home.asp.
The presentation paper and images were quoted various times in the first Spanish national cycle parking manual (see Publications) following this output.
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COPS guide 2008: Bicycle theft |
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Johnson, S. D., Sidebottom, A. and Thorpe, A (June 2008). Bicycle theft. Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Problem- Specific Guides Series No 52, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. ISBN 1-932582-87-8.
The U.S. Department of Justice regularly commission problem-specific guides intended for police and crime prevention practitioners. These guides compile and summarize knowledge about specific crime problems, and catalogue responses which have successfully reduced the harm caused by those problems. This peer-reviewed guide addresses the problem of bicycle theft. First, it describes the problem of bicycle theft and reviews the factors that contribute to it. Second, it identifies a series of questions to help improve the analysis of bicycle theft and the evaluation of bicycle theft interventions. Finally, it reviews responses to bicycle theft and describes the findings of evaluative research and operational policing.
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