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Bikeoff: Research and resources for design of secure bike stands, University of Portsmouth 2009 |
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In February 2009, Adam Thorpe (Director of Bikeoff) presented Bikeoff: Research and resources for design of secure bike stands at the University of Portsmouth, Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI). This presentation of Bikeoff research and design resources was given to students and also at a stakeholder seminar to inform design responses from the University of Portsmouth, Wayne Hemingway and also a Portsmouth City Council Collaborative Project to design secure cycle parking furniture for the City of Portsmouth.
Please download the presentation here
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? CPTED International Newsletter 2010 |
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Thorpe, A. and Gamman, L. Are You Sitting Comfortably? in Saville G (ed) International CPTED Association, Newsletter, Vol 9, in press.
Article on the role of design in reducing anti-social behaviour linked to public seating written in response to an invitation by Gregg Saville, the Editor of CPTED’s International newsletter. The newsletter communicates with the crime prevention community, particularly looking at crime prevention through environmental design.
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Kings Cross Cycle Park 2010 |
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The Bikeoff research project has provided consultancy regarding the design and specification of secure indoor bike parking for the Kings Cross CSM campus. Bikeoff has shared research, case studies and design guidance with Stanton Williams Architects and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Estate Management. Bikeoff continue to collaborate in the delivery of this project – due for completion in 2010.
More info about the Kings Cross move here.
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Hot Stuff? on Crimestoppers March 2010 |
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Thorpe, A. and Gamman, L. (March 2010) Hot Stuff? Crimestoppers [online]. Article on the role of design in reducing theft of ‘hot products’ written in response to an invitation by Crimestoppers to write an article to feature in their online magazine as recommended by the Home Office. Available here
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Visit by Crime Scientists from Twente University, Netherlands 2010 |
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A team of researchers from Twente University in the Netherlands visited the Design Against Crime Research Centre and Bikeoff team (12th Jan 2010). They are developing a Crime Science programme in Twente, incorporating a design strand and wished to learn about how DACRC, and our partners JDI, operated individually and collectively in this field. Prof Gamman and Reader Thorpe gave a presentation on design which included reference to the work of Bikeoff, and Prof Ekblom presented his crime frameworks, describing how they fit with design. Please download the presentation here
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British Council Urban Ideas Bakery, Kaunas, Lithuania (December 2009) |
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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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Chapter in the European Journal of Criminology 2009 |
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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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Bikeoff 2 in Designing for the 21st Century book 2009 |
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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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Theory and Practice presentation to PhD community 2009 |
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Gamman, L. (Oct 2009) presented Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Design “Theory into Practice” to incoming first year PhD students about Design Against Crime philosophy and the research methodologies developed through projects such as Bikeoff. There were 45 students present from across UAL including some from Falmouth and Norwich. G12, Central Saint Martins, London.
Download presentation here
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Visit by the Polish Police Service 2009 |
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In October 2009, The Association of Chief Police Officers Secured By Design hosted an in depth two week visit by representatives from the Polish Police Service looking at designing out crime and SBD. On 12th October they visited the Design Against Crime Research centre and Bikeoff Initiative, Gamman and Thorpe presented Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Design, particularly looking at products such as Bikeoff’s anti-theft bike stands as exemplars of Design Against Crime, and DAC’s design methodology which has been developed from projects such as Bikeoff. Professor Paul Ekblom presented Environmental criminology, the evidence that it works.
Download the presentation here
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