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‘What Makes Cities Creative’ workshop in Warsaw, Poland |
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What Makes Cities Creative workshop in Warsaw, Poland, March 2008.
Professor Lorraine Gamman of Bikeoff was invited to the What Makes Cities Creative workshop in Warsaw in March 2008. The event was coordinated by Charlie Leadbeater for the British Council. Gamman presented The Dark Side Of Creativity In Cities. The workshop brought together 30 ‘urban innovators’ and city partners from the participating countries and examined the people, places and practices that make cities creative places.
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‘RIBA’s Building Futures (Debate): Design Against Paranoid Cities…’ |
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RIBA’s Building Futures – Conflict Debate event, June 2008.
Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff were guest speakers at RIBA’s Building Futures – Conflict Debate event. They presented Design Against Paranoid Cities or Socially Responsive Design for Public Spaces. Building Futures aims to address the big picture. How and where will we be living in 50 or 100 years’ time, when the climate has changed and cities are bigger than ever? What technologies will architects be using to design buildings and what new materials will they be specifying? Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff were guest speakers at RIBA’s Building Futures – Conflict Debate event. They presented Design Against Paranoid Cities or Socially Responsive Design for Public Spaces.
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‘Less is More …’ at Changing the Change Conference, Turin |
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Changing the Change Conference, Turin. July 2008.
The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place. Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe were invited to present the paper Less is More – What Design Against Crime Can Contribute To Sustainability at the conference. The paper argues that design against crime constitutes sustainable design because it attempts to anticipate and design out crime and other problems from the system in the first place, in a sustainable way, rather than solving them after they have arisen, often linked to inconsiderate design. It is written in seven sections that attempt to argue with Paul Cozens that “the ubiquitous issue of crime and the fear of crime are included within some sustainability frameworks, but arguably need to be explicitly integrated” (Cozens 2007, 187-196). www.changingthechange.org/
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‘Less Is More…’ at Designing Out Crime Association (DOCA) |
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Designing Out Crime Association (DOCA) AGM, Birmingham November 2008.
Prof. Lorraine Gamman of Bikeoff is also the Vice Chair of DOCA and curated an event presented at the recent AGM
The aim of DOCA is to provide a forum for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) professionals and practitioners to promote safer communities and reduce anti-social behaviour by improving the quality of life through the concept, application and practice of designing out crime. . Gamman presented Less Is More: What Design Against Crime Can Contribute to Sustainability and will create a BRE (Building Research Establishment) journal with Dr Rachel Armitage based on the papers presented that day for DOCA. Adam Thorpe, Director of Bikeoff, presented Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft.
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‘Striking Sparks: Fresh and evolving ideas …’ at British Library |
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International Crime Science Conference, British Library, London. July 2007
Professor Paul Ekblom and Aiden Sidebottom of Bikeoff presented Striking Sparks: Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design at the International Crime Science Conference. This academic presentation drew on the unfolding experience of the Bikeoff project, and others, in identifying a range of challenges to the theory and practice of situational crime prevention, and introduced some of the new concepts, frameworks and terms to applied practitioners (both social research and hard science) in that field.
This academic presentation drew on the unfolding experience of the Bikeoff project, and others, in identifying a range of challenges to the theory and practice of situational crime prevention, and introduced some of the new concepts, frameworks and terms to applied practitioners (both social research and hard science) in that field. Ekblom also gave this presentation at the International Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis seminar at UCL, London in July 2007.
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‘Crime prevention: International experience’ at Conference, Australia |
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State community safety and crime prevention strategy renewal forum, Western Australia Government Conference. Perth, Australia. July 2008.
Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to give the keynote address at the State community safety and crime prevention strategy renewal forum. He presented Crime prevention: International experience. This presentation on general crime prevention drew for illustration on a range of practical examples, some of which came from the Bikeoff project.
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‘Crime Reduction Through Surveillance & Design’ at I.C.R Conference |
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International Crime Reduction Conference. Banff, Canada, October 2007.
Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff presented Crime Reduction Through Surveillance and Design at this conference organised by the Province of Alberta. This presentation, repeated at the AGM of the UK Designing Out Crime Association in December 2007, explained for a general crime prevention practitioner and researcher audience, ideas on surveillance mainly derived from the Bikeoff project.
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‘Fresh and evolving ideas…’ at Interdisciplinary Design Institute |
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Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University, Spokane WA USA, February 2008
Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to staff and students at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute in Washington in February 2008. He presented Less Crime, by Design. This is a general overview of Design Against Crime and draws on a range of Design Against Crime experiences and frameworks including those developed during the Bikeoff Project.
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‘Less Crime, by Design’ at Interdisciplinary Design Institute |
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Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University, Spokane WA USA, February 2008
Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to staff and students at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute in Washington in February 2008. He presented Less Crime, by Design. This is a general overview of Design Against Crime and draws on a range of Design Against Crime experiences and frameworks including those developed during the Bikeoff Project.
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‘Introducing Design Against Crime …As we do it’ at Australia |
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Australia-New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers’ Group, Canberra, Australia. November 2008
Professor Paul Ekblom of Bikeoff was invited to present to the Australia-New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers’ Group, Canberra in November 2008. He presented Introducing Design Against Crime …As we do it. The Senior Officers’ Group comprises all the state and national heads of crime prevention in Australia and New Zealand. This presentation reviewed the work of the DAC Research Centre and illustrated it with our own projects including Bikeoff work.
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