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Designs Against Bicycle Theft - Love your bike |
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Designs Against Bicycle Theft - Love your bike (February 2007) product launch event and exhibition at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Seven new sculpturally attractive yet functional bike parking designs were unveiled for ‘on street’ testing at the junction of Southampton Row and Theobald’s Road - a hot spot for cycle theft according to Metropolitan Police (Holborn) data.
This research booklet, and design catalogue; Design Against Bicycle Theft accompanied the press launch of the anti-theft bike stands.
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Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, catalogue, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Cochrane Theatre, Design Against Crime, Exhibitions & Events, leaflet
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Design In Public Space |
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Design in Public Space (September 2008 – April 2009) Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn, Poland.
Curator: Jezowska, K.
Delivered by: Gamman, L, Thorpe, A. and Willcocks, M.
The exhibition was aimed at designers, urbanists and municipal bodies who provide and decide upon equipment for public space. It included design exemplars created by the Bikeoff project. This year the overall event was focused on the issue of “safety”. It also included reference to the ‘Design Against Crime and Socially Responsive Design’ conference paper by Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe which was published in conference proceedings.
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Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, presentations, publications
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‘Putting the Brakes on Bicycle Theft’ Exhibtion, Barbican Centre |
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An exhibition as part of the London Bicycle Film Festival, to accompany a multi stakeholder seminar aimed at disseminating Bikeoff project outputs and designing out bike theft. The exhibition launched a free online design resource (via Bikeoff.org) featuring over a hundred case studies of cycling facilities and schemes from around the world, aimed at helping a multi stakeholder audience, including designers and architects, to “get smart quick” about bike theft and how to design secure cycling infrastructure for our cities. Further iterations of the exhibition, including new materials such as videos of interviews with designers upgraded visual materials, were shown at New London Architecture (6 weeks), and the Central Saint Martins innovation Centre Gallery (4 weeks). Some of the images from this exhibition have recently been included in an Australia exhibition curated by Paul Cozens at Curtin University. Melbourne, Australia.
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Barbican Centre, Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, Lorraine Gamman
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‘Putting The Brakes On Bicycle Theft’ at Innovation Centre Gallery |
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Putting the Brakes on Bicycle Theft (September 2008 and February 2009) Innovation Centre Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.
Curators: Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A.
Exhibition showcasing bike parking designs that makes life easier for cyclists and harder for bike thieves, redesigned for the Gallery Space at the Innovation Centre to coincide with Central Saint Martins enterprise events.
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, Innovation Centre, Lorraine Gamman
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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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Tags: 2008, Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, Lorraine Gamman, New London Architecture
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Designs Against Crime Exhibition at the Home Office, London |
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Designs Against Crime (January 2008) Exhibition at the Home Office, Marsham Street, London.
Curators: Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A.
The Home Office’s Acquisitive Crime Unit – who are partly responsible for the formation of the Design Technology Alliance, asked DACRC to create an exhibition aimed at a diverse stakeholder group who the Home Office have targeted to Design Out Crime. The Design Against Crime Research Centre’s DAC product exemplars, including those from the Bikeoff project, formed part of this exhibition. The leaflet announcing the formation of the DTA (originally created for the Truman Brewery event) was also circulated at this brief installation at the Home Office.
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, Home Office, Lorraine Gamman
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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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Socially Responsive Designs Against Crime at Tent London |
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(Socially Responsive) Designs Against Crime (September 2007) Tent London design show, Truman Brewery, London.
Curators: Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A.
Following on from the success of the ECCA exhibition, Design Against Crime product exemplars, including those of the Bikeoff project, were curated within an exhibition designed to communicate the socially responsive design agenda (exemplified by DACRC) to a design focussed audience that paid to attend the week long ‘Tent’ design event at the Truman brewery. Feedback from the design community was built into the exhibition, where strong support for the Bikeoff project was indicated by the number of cards and positive comments left for Bikeoff.org to respond to. A leaflet announcing the formation of the Design Technology Alliance, organised by the Home Office, was created for this event to introduce The Alliance to a design audience. This communication featured the Bikeoff butterfly stand as the illustration of how best to design out crime – in a way that doesn’t look criminal!
Tags: Adam Thorpe, Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, Lorraine Gamman, Tent London
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Reinventing the Bike Shed 1 - Designs on Cycling in the City |
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Reinventing the Bike Shed – Designs on Cycling in the City (2007), Innovation Centre, London.
Curators: Gamman, L. and Thorpe, A.
RTBS was staged during Architecture Week as part of the London Architectural Biennale in June 2006 before the Bikeoff 2nd externally funded project started. It was shown the Arches at Tooley Street; and was re- presented in the Innovation Centre Gallery, in 2007. The exhibition, curated by Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff, was the first to address cycle theft, cycle security and cycle parking, with a focus on the role design can play in reducing cycle theft and increasing cycle use. The exhibition provided a forum for stakeholder seminars addressing these issues and launched an international design competition in collaboration with Blueprint magazine and Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects, and catalyzed work from other designers, who entered the competition. Judges of this work included Adam Thorpe, Wayne Hemmingway, John Snow and who else. For full details of the original exhibition can be found on www.reinventingthebikeshed.com.
Video tour of Reinventing the Bike Shed is also available here
Tags: Bikeoff Outputs, Exhibitions & Events, Reinventing The Bike Shed 1
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London bike park ‘one of the safest in world’ |
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Evening Standard
Mark Prigg
17.12.08
A LONDON bicycle park has been selected as one of the world’s best examples of cycle safety.
The £675,000 site in Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, has space for 130 bikes. It has 24 hour CCTV, automated locking cycle racks, and a smartcard entry system for riders, who pay 50p per day for the service.
Lloyd’s of London was also singled out at the same exhibition for its staff bike parking facilities, which feature a hi-tech swipe card entry system.
The bike safety show at New London Architecture, in central London, showcases the latest breakthroughs in security. The designs, such as a “folding handlebar” that can be locked to stop the bike being turned, are concepts designed by students.
It comes as Transport for London figures show cycling increasing and theft decreasing for the first time this decade.
The event is part of the Bikeoff initiative run by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and backed by TfL and the Met. Rose Ades, head of the TfL Cycle Centre of Excellence, said: “There is still a long way to go, but Bikeoff is making a difference.”
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