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Designs Against Crime at ECCA International Conference |
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Designs Against Crime (July 2007) exhibition as part of ECCA International Conference, UCL, London.
Curators: Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A.
The Design Against Crime Research Centre were invited to showcase design against crime exemplars at the ECCA International Conference to communicate, to a crime prevention and criminology audience, the contribution practice led research has to make to designing out crime. Bikeoff exemplars, including bike stands and communication designs, were among objects included in the exhibition that ran for the 5 days of the conference. Gamman, Thorpe and Ekblom also gave papers at the conference, where attendees were invited to review the designs.
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Presentations
Adam Thorpe ‘Don’t Give Thieves an Easy Ride: A Design Against Crime Practice Review’
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Lorraine Gamman ‘Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Innovation’
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Paul Ekblom ‘Striking Sparks: Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design’
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Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, conferences, ECCA, Exhibitions & Events, UCL
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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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Tags: 2008, Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, conferences, Lorraine Gamman, Poland
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Less Is More: What Can Design Against Crime Contribute To Sustainability |
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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A (July 2008) presented the paper Less is More – What Design Against Crime Can Contribute To Sustainability, Changing the Change Conference, Turin.
This paper, given at the largest conference on design and sustainability to date, argues that design against crime constitutes sustainable design because it attempts to anticipate and design out crime and other problems from a system at the outset, in a sustainable way, rather than addressing them after they have arisen, often resulting in unsatisfactory or unsustainable design. It is written in seven sections that explain the DAC Evolved Twin Track Model of the Design Process (2007), developed and applied within the Bikeoff project in the creation of design benchmarks for secure bike parking.
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Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Birmingham, conferences, Lorraine Gamman, presentations, Turin
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Profit From Paranoia: Design Against Paranoid Products |
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Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A. (2007). presented the paper Profit from Paranoia – Design Against ‘Paranoid’ Products. European Academy of Design (EAD 07): Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse, Disaster, Izmir, Turkey. Published as part of conference proceedings.
Innovation is a risky business. Trying to innovate products to empower the individual against street crime, or to create designs for public space that can anticipate terrorist intentions, raise many design issues as well as what Prof. Ekblom (2005) defines as ‘troublesome tradeoffs.’ These involve safety concerns versus address to maintaining personal freedoms. This paper reviews specific ‘troublesome tradeoffs’ and makes design recommendations.
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Liberty Versus Safety: A Design Review |
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Thorpe, A. and Gamman, L. (2007). presented the paper Liberty Versus Safety: A Design Review. European Academy of Design (EAD 07): Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse, Disaster, Izmir, Turkey. Published as part of conference proceedings.
This paper argues that when designing against terrorism, it is important to fully understand both terrorist perpetrator techniques and terrorism prevention principles and to establish the myths and realities about ‘fear of terrorism’, before catalyzing new design innovations or design policy. One of two academic papers prepared for the EAD conference Dancing for Disorder (different seminar strands), this paper assesses the requirement for designers to mediate issues of user liberty versus security. We assess the troublesome design tradeoffs between accommodation of users and exclusion of terrorist misuse and abuse linked to bicycle parking, using the Conjunction of Terrorism Opportunity framework. We include the case study of the Biceberg automated bike parking system in relation to the fitness for purpose versus resistance to terrorism debate, to illustrate that design performance can be counter intuitive and thus benefit from rigorous evaluation.
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