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Bikeoff: Research and resources for design of secure bike stands, University of Portsmouth 2009  

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In February 2009, Adam Thorpe (Director of Bikeoff) presented Bikeoff: Research and resources for design of secure bike stands at the University of Portsmouth, Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI). This presentation of Bikeoff research and design resources was given to students and also at a stakeholder seminar to inform design responses from  the University of Portsmouth, Wayne Hemingway and also a Portsmouth City Council Collaborative Project to design secure cycle parking furniture for the City of Portsmouth.

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Visit by Crime Scientists from Twente University, Netherlands 2010  

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A team of researchers from Twente University in the Netherlands visited the Design Against Crime Research Centre and Bikeoff team (12th Jan 2010). They are developing a Crime Science programme in Twente, incorporating a design strand and wished to learn about how DACRC, and our partners JDI, operated individually and collectively in this field. Prof Gamman and Reader Thorpe gave a presentation on design which included reference to the work of Bikeoff, and Prof Ekblom presented his crime frameworks, describing how they fit with design. Please download the presentation here

British Council Urban Ideas Bakery, Kaunas, Lithuania (December 2009)  

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The British Council’s Urban Ideas Bakery event brought together local stakeholders, external experts and social innovators from across Europe to focus on Kaunas, the second city of Lithuania, to discover and define social problems and develop and deliver design-led solutions. Gamman and Thorpe attended the event and presented bikeoff’s anti-theft bike stands as exemplars of design against crime and socially responsive design. Download here

Theory and Practice presentation to PhD community 2009  

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Gamman, L. (Oct 2009) presented Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Design “Theory into Practice” to incoming first year PhD students about Design Against Crime philosophy and the research methodologies developed through projects such as Bikeoff. There were 45 students present from across UAL including some from Falmouth and Norwich. G12, Central Saint Martins, London.

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Visit by the Polish Police Service 2009  

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In October 2009, The Association of Chief Police Officers Secured By Design hosted an in depth two week visit by representatives from the Polish Police Service looking at designing out crime and SBD. On 12th October they visited the Design Against Crime Research centre and Bikeoff Initiative, Gamman and Thorpe presented Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Design, particularly looking at products such as Bikeoff’s anti-theft bike stands as exemplars of Design Against Crime, and DAC’s design methodology which has been developed from projects such as Bikeoff. Professor Paul Ekblom presented Environmental criminology, the evidence that it works.

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DOCRC Australia 2009  

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.

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.

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.

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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

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.

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