Design Against Crime

CSM LINK Doctoral Bursary for Practice-led Design PhD

Chloe Griffith — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:20:48 +0000

CSM (Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design) seeks to develop PhDs in the area of communication, spatial and/or interaction design leading to design led social innovation and/or behaviour change.

In 2012 CSM will offer a fully funded bursary for Home and EU research degree students based in the UK.

The studentship of £20,200 per year for three years (with potential to extend to up to 4 years) will cover both tuition fees (For the 2012/13 academic year the full-time tuition fees is £4,390 for Home/EU students) and a stipend of between £15,000 & £16,000 per year. Additional budget is available to encourage/maximise the dissemination of key practice led outputs during the research programme.

The focus of this doctoral award is behaviour change in public space linked to either spatial, communication and/or interaction design innovation.

The bursary is supported by LINK, the UK’s cash machine network who wish to catalyse new approaches to safety, security and social sustainability in the public realm. They wish to promote design exploration that will lead to Innovation Against ATM Crime by developing a practice-based and design led approach to enhancing customer experience, as well as, improving customer security. This should be understood as a key focus of this PhD investigation.

An industry steering group, comprising a broad cohort of key stakeholders, including LINK and the Metropolitan Police will be established to inform the programme of research, linked to participatory research and design processes. Whilst this aspect of the project may suggest a niche focus, ATM security would certainly need to feature in the PhD but the broader themes of the PhD will ensure that the successful applicant’s work is relevant to diverse design areas in respect of user/product/system interactions and behaviour change.

The studentship will be supported by the award-winning Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) and its Socially Responsive Design and Innovation hub (SRDI) based at CSM. DACRC/SRDI exemplifies a socially responsive design approach; that is design that takes as its primary driver social issues, its main consideration social impact and its main objective social innovation.

Candidate Requirements
Successful applicants will have strong abilities in design and/or architectural practice/design strategy and will already have a postgraduate qualification and a good first degree (2:1 or above) in a design-related discipline. Strong communication and presentation skills (verbal, written, visual) are also required to benefit from this exciting opportunity.

Applicants interested in applying should complete a standard application form RF1 which can be downloaded from our Applications page – http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/apply/
The completed forms should be emailed to researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk
If you need any further information on the application procedure please email Research Management and Administration Students section – researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk or telephone 0207 514 2120.

Further Information on the Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub of the Design Against Crime Research Centre who will manage the project can be found at http://www.designagainstcrime.com/methodology-resources/socially-responsive-design/

Prospective applicants should also look at the special edition of the CoDesign journal on Socially Responsive Design edited by Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe and also the Designs Against ATM Crime publication which is downloadable free of charge from http://www.designagainstcrime.com

Deadline: Applications must be received by 3rd May, 2012

Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability – Public And Collaborative Lecture Series

Chloe Griffith — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:10:56 +0000

LECTURE 2 on 9th MAY at 19.30:

Design’s new publics;
Design practices for social innovation and change

Speaker:
Lucy Kimbell
Head of Social Design
The Young Foundation

More info at:

http://socialdesignpractice.wordpress.com

Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
King’s Cross Campus
Granary Building, 1 Granary Square
London, N1C 4AA

09 May 2012 / 19:30 – 21:30
LVMH Lecture Theatre (E003)

Free admission, all welcome. Please RSVP if you would like to attend: d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk

Compost and Grow Food Loop: Enabling composting and food growing in urban environments

Chloe Griffith — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:49:04 +0000

Clare Brass, team Leader Sustain RCA and Founder and Director of SEED Foundation talks about Food Loop, a design-led co-creation project that offers local authorities a model for localised composting of biodegradable waste on housing estates. The project is working with residents on the Maiden Lane estate, in Camden, north London, to co-design a scheme that helps them to recycle their food waste. The food waste is composted on-site and used to grow fruit and vegetables.

Project leader Clare Brass will introduce the project and explain how CSM students can get involved.

16:30 – 18.00 Thursday 9th February 2012 at:

Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, King’s Cross Campus (Lecture Theatre E002/E003), Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London, N1C 4AA

Design Against ATM Crime Catalogue

Dani Davies — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:25:58 +0000

DACRC initiated the ‘Design Against ATM Crime’ project and set a brief supported by NCR to challenge design students at three significant design schools in different parts of the world:

Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, UAL

Delft University of Technology

University of Technology Sydney

The Design Against ATM Crime catalogue contains responses to the following challenge: “Can staff and students at these design institutions find new approaches to generating behaviour change as well as cost-effective solutions to help tackle ATM crime?”

There’s a Riot Going On

Dani Davies — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:13:39 +0000

There’s a Riot Going On: Gang Crime, X Factor Generation and the Dark Side of Shopping

6.30pm, Thursday 1st December at E002/E003 CSM, Kings Cross.

Free admission. RSVP d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk

SPEAKERS

GAVIN KNIGHT is a respected broadsheet journalist and spent two years researching his book on inner city crime, Hood Rat. He was embedded with frontline police units in London, Manchester and Glasgow and spent time with gang members, criminals, social workers, youth workers, victims of crime and their families.

KEN HOLLINGS is visiting lecturer at CSM. He is also the author of Destroy All Monsters (Mario Boyars) and Welcome to Mars (Strange Attractor Press). He has presented features on technology and culture for BBC Radio 3, NPS in Holland, ABC Australia and Resonance FM. His latest book The Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Digital Regime is due from Strange Attractor Press in 2012.

SUZANNE MOORE writes about politics, both personal and political, in all its many forms. An Award-winning journalist, writing weekly columns for the Mail on Sunday and Guardian, Suzanne Moore is also the author of two books – Looking for Trouble, 1991 and Head over Heels, 1998 – numerous articles for everything from Grazia to the LRB.

Chair DAVID MATTHEWS is a writer and journalist with an (unhealthy) interest in subcultures and the criminal underworld. He is the author of four books and has produced and presented numerous TV and radio documentaries.

Read the review of There’s a Riot Going On.

Design Against ATM Crime exhibition at Covent Garden Piazza

Dani Davies — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:37:35 +0000

Following the Design Against ATM Crime exhibition unveiling on 16th June at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, a smaller exhibition, sponsored by NCR and supported by the Metropolitan Police, took place during Crime Prevention Week at Covent Garden Piazza on Thursday 14th July. For more information see re-designed Design Against ATM Crime blog.

Dialogues with Graffiti, ESRC network

Dani Davies — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:33:51 +0000

DAC are holding their 3rd workshop in the Graffiti Dialogues series at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery in the coming week. These targeted workshops (by invitation), between December 2010 and Spring 2011 will bring together diverse experts and communities on the subject of graffiti, to explore opportunities for “twenty first century cities” to better respond to the phenomenon of graffiti in cost effective ways that are “fit for purpose”.

Design Against ATM Crime exhibition

Dani Davies — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:35:25 +0000

The Design Against ATM Crime exhibition at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM) showcased the work of design students as well as artists and design research staff. Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) and NCR worked with the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPCU), Royal Bank of Scotland and LINK on a design brief for BA (Hons) Product Design students. The challenge set was to come up with new and cost-effective solutions to tackle ATM crime.

Exhibition ran: 17–21st June 2011

ATM Art in Hammersmith

Dani Davies — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:32:38 +0000

The Metropolitan Police, Hammersmith approached the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) to help tackle the problem of ATM crime. Art installations, funded by the Hammersmith business improvement district were located outside Nat West bank/s to prevent shoulder surfing (theft of pin numbers) as well as pickpocketing around ATMs.

Directed by Paul Trueman of the Metropolitan Police, these art installations on vinyl were created by Steve Russell for DACRC aimed at creating defensible space “safety zones”. A three-month trial is currently taking place in Hammersmith to see whether or not ATM art can match the 66% crime reduction documented by Manchester Police in 2007 who used yellow traffic lines painted around ATMs also to create defensible space safety zones to prevent ATM crime.

Favourable early reviews about the Hammersmith ATM art intervention have been received. They appear to create sensitive aesthetic address to public space (and do not treat humans like road traffic), while trying to design out ATM crime. Consequently, they have generated further business interest.

The Inmidtown business improvement district want to make Holborn ATMs safer too. Inmidtown also want to be sure the intervention works by evaluating Holborn sites appropriately, as no robust evaluation has yet been delivered by previous project. Currently DACRC and Inmidtown are in discussion with Nat West, HSBC, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland to understand whether a small amount of funding can be raised by the banks to help install and evaluate ATM art in the Holborn area.

Full case study: http://www.inthebag.org.uk/?page_id=581

DACRC’s ATM project on Safe Growth blogspot: Magic Carpets by Gregory Saville, US urban planner and criminologist

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