Swansea Metropolitan University - Fighting crime with good design - 6 June 2008

Safer Sustainable Cities - Hosted by Swansea Metropolitan University in partnership with the Design Against Crime Research Centre. Co-organized by Chris Thomas and held at The Grand Reading Room in the Welsh School of Architectural Glass, Swansea, Wales.

The seminar attracted the attention of the local authorities and focused on designing out crime. Swansea City was awarded EU funding to redevelop the city centre infrastructure which includes the cycling links into and within the city. It focused not on detective work or CCTV but on cutting-edge design. Lorraine Gamman, a keynote speaker at the Safer Sustainable Cities event at Swansea Metropolitan University, is director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at the University of the Arts London. She said: “Crime-proof designs make products more sustainable, as they become harder to steal, and so we don’t need to keep replacing them.”

Reported on the Times Higher Education website.

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