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DOCRC Australia 2009 |
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Teaching invitation from June – July 09 from the Designing Out Crime Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia. Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe, who have pioneered the practice-led, component of Bikeoff and its ‘twin track’ research process (described elsewhere) presented their work, and trained others to deliver a similar approach to design research, and design innovation and enterprise.
Gamman and Thorpe presented “What is Design Against Crime?” to a student audience to brief and help catalyse activities at the sister Centre in Australia.
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Lorraine Gamman, presentations
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Sustain Our Nation 2009 |
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Sustain our Nation (SoN) was a national competition run by the Audi Design Foundation (Sept 2009 – Feb 2010) for young designers that sought to encourage innovation to address the issues of Ageing population, Health, Finance, Crime, Energy & Climate change, via the creation of social enterprises through design. The aim was to catalyse solutions that addressed these national issues at a local level, working with communities to deliver sustainable change. Gamman and Thorpe (from Bikeoff) were on the expert panel for crime and presented at masterclass on 11th and 12th June 2009 at the Marlybone Hotel, London. Gamman presented Design Against Crime Overview which featured how to get smart quick on bike theft and Thorpe presented Design Resource: Definitions, Approaches and Processes which discusses DACRC’s social design process, developed primarily through the Bikeoff project. Gamman and Thorpe also presented at the Sustain Our Nation Think Tank in March 2009 to brief tutors ahead of the launch of the national competition.
Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, presentations
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Less is more… in Built Environment Journal 2009 |
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Special edition of the peer reviewed Built Environment Journal co-edited by Gamman, L. and Armitage, R.(eds.), Sustainability via Security: A New Look. Vol 35, no. 3. P403-419. Alexandrine Press. ISSN 0263-7960.
This is the first journal that has joined up the crime and sustainability debate in one issue. The journal contains the article ‘Less is more – what design against crime can contribute to sustainability’ which was written by Gamman and Thorpe.
Please download the paper here
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Lorraine Gamman
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Holborn Gateway Project 2009 |
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Geographically focused on the ‘Holborn Gateway’, a cycle theft hotspot in the centre of London. Bikeoff worked with London Borough of Camden, Transport for London and partners during between 2006 and 2008 to research and design a secure cycle parking and safe cycle access solution for the area in support of the sustainable transport objectives of the borough.
This project informed the development and testing of Bikeoff communication design and furniture design that has since been rolled out to other boroughs in London and other Cities in the UK. The proposed designs for the Holborn Gateway are being implemented during 2009 as part of a major street, and transport route, restructuring project in the area.
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Lorraine Gamman
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CRASSH workshop, Cambridge 2009 |
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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A. presented Open Innovation – Design-Led Research for the 21st century, which discusses DAC methodology, looking at the abuser experience and the user experience in relation to bike theft, amongst others. The presentation took place at the Creativity and Innovation in Groups workshop, organised by CRASSH in Cambridge. May 2009. The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) was established at the University of Cambridge in 2001 as a hub for dynamic scholarly encounter and development. Their mission is to promote collaborations across the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and beyond their edges, in order to stimulate innovative and interdisciplinary thinking and dialogue and to reach out to new networks of interest and new publics.
Download presentation here
Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, presentations
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Velo City 2009 |
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Velo City (May 2009). Gamman and Thorpe presented at ‘Velo City 2009’ (Europe and the worlds largest cycling policy forum) in May 2009 (11th-15th), funded by Transport for London. They presented Bikeoff research within a pan-European plenary session on bike theft, and presented posters (above) of specific project activities and outputs. Download the presentation here
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs
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Bikeoff contributes to Bicycle Parking Manual for Spain |
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“Manual de aparcamientos de bicicletas” | IDAE – BACC | 2009
Bikeoff/ Marcus Willcocks have consulted on, and contributed advice, text and visual content to a new Bicycle Parking Manual, authored by BACC, that was first presented at the recent Seville conference for the Public Bicycle. The manual, published in Castellano, is the first of its kind, directed at cycle parking and built-environment stakeholders, authorities and specifiers, throughout Spain. It was funded by the Spanish Institute for Energy Saving and Diversification (IDAE) and the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce. A pdf of the manual can be downloaded here. Bikeoff’s ongoing exchange with BACC and other cycle user and cycle security groups in Spain and other parts of Europe allowed them to draw on their research and in-practice experience to make informed contributions to the publication.
Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, document, manual, Marcus Willcocks, parking guidelines
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Safer Sustainable Cities Exhibition and Seminar, Wales |
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The Safer Sustainable Cities event was held in the Grand Reading Room in the Welsh School of Architecture and Glass, Swansea (curated by Gamman and Thorpe, with help from freelance designer, Chris Thomas) The event was requested by colleagues from the Crime Prevention community in Wales as ambitious regeneration projects are planned in Swansea, and inspiration and knowledge transfer to make design against bike crime happen was thought to be needed linked to aims to increase cycle use as part of integrated public transport proposals. The event focused on the contribution of designing out crime to the creation of safer, sustainable cities and was attended by 50 delegates, from local authorities, police, and academic bodies from England and Wales. The conference received presentations drawing on Bikeoff research from Ekblom, Gamman, Thorpe, Sidebottom and Willcocks.
The event was met with a very positive response and was reported in THE Times Higher Education.
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Chris Thomas, Fighting Crime With Good Design, Lorraine Gamman, SMU, Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales
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‘A day in the life of …’ at Pecha Kucha, Barcelona |
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Pecha Kucha Barcelona Vol. 4, Palo Alto, Barcelona. February 2009.
Marcus Willcocks of Bikeoff was invited to present at Pecha Kucha Barcelona Vol. 4. He presented A day in the life of … (Un Día en La Vida de ..) to an international audience of approximately 500 attendees, from design and other creative disciplines. The presentation summarises design approach, methodology and selected projects including Bikeoff and others.
Download here
Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, Marcus Willcocks, presentations
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‘Evaluating efforts to design out bicycle theft’ conference, Edinburgh |
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8th European Society of Criminology Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2008
Aiden Sidebottom, Adam Thorpe and Shane Johnson of Bikeoff were invited to present at the eighth European Society of Criminology conference which was held at the University of Edinburgh. This paper 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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Tags: Adam Thorpe, Aiden Sidebottom, Bikeoff Outputs, Shane Johnson
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