Design Against Crime Research Centre
DAC is a socially responsive, practice-led research centre located
at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
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DAC is in the 'Design Week Hot 50' 2009
Design Week 05 February 2009
While crime has reduced in the past decade, technology and society has evolved, creating new crime challenges. Design, therefore, has an important role to play in preventing crime and reducing criminal activity.
Design Against Crime is an initiative that was first launched in 1999. The Design Against Crime Research Centre was set up in 2001 by director Dr Lorraine Gamman. It received designation status in July 2005, becoming permanently based at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. DAC aims to challenge designers into creating products, services and environments that factor security into their work and make it visually pleasing, as well as crime-proof.
DAC is independently funded, but is recognised worldwide. The Australian government is, for example, working with a local design school, investing £1.4m into a similar programme, following the DAC initiative.
In a separate move, the Home Office and the Design Council are collaborating on the Designing Out Crime programme. In November 2008, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith agreed £1.6m backing for the Design and Technology Alliance, headed by Sebastian Conran, to develop innovative design solutions against crime over the next three years.
The programme breaks down into five areas: reducing bullying in schools, led by Sir John Sorrell; making 'hot' products more crime-proof, led by Joe McGeehan, director of the Centre for Communications Research at Bristol University; embedding crime-reducing approaches to housing, led by forensic psychologist Ken Pease; reducing alcohol-related crime, led by the Royal College of Art's Professor Jeremy Myerson; and minimising crime against businesses, led by Gamman.
Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft
Seminar
Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft:
Multi-agency delivery of a Secure Cycling City
Barbican Centre
3rd October, 2008
Help improve enjoyment of the public realm by sensitively tackling the issue of bike theft to further enable cycle use.
Our seminar will showcase a multi-agency approach success in planning, design, implementation and management of cycle parking, cycle theft prevention strategies and design responses.
The seminar will include a series of short films as well as an exhibition showcasing examples of design responses to bike theft.
Additionally, the seminar will introduce new user-focused tools to inform and empower service and product providers and users to put the brakes on cycle theft and to help deliver a secure cycling city.
Register online here
or
please rsvp to: d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk
Grippa, June-August 2008 testing: London-Barcelona / Grippa, Junio-Agosto 2008: prueba: Londres-Barcelona
The DAC Research Centre in partnership with the UCL Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science and in collaboration with Elisava school of design (Barcelona), are working with two bars in London (Wetherspoons) and two bars in Barcelona (Glaciar and Horiginal) to assess the usability of the latest DAC bag hanging Grippa design prototypes.
Grippa, Junio-Agosto 2008: prueba: Londres-Barcelona
El DAC Research Centre (Centro de Investigación de Diseño contra el Crimen) en asociación con el UCL Jill Dando Institute for Crime and Science (Instituto de Investigación para Crimen y Ciencia Jill Dando), en colaboración con Elisava Escuela de Diseño (Barcelona) actualmente trabajan con dos bares en Londres (Wetherspoons) y dos bares en Barcelona (Glaciar y Horiginal) para determinar la usabilidad de los mas recientes prototipos diseñados del clip/gancho Grippa para colgar bolsos.
Home Office Design and Technology Alliance Membership
Professor Lorraine Gamman was appointed as a member of the government's new Design and Technology Alliance, an independent group of designers committed to raising the profile of crime prevention.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6940485.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6939816.stm
Design Innovation in Plastics 2007 Awards
The Design Against Crime Research Centre runs many student projects. This year, Professor Gamman’s 2004 Grippa brief was run with M.A.I.D. Students, a student project led by Professor Paul Ekblom. We are thrilled one of our students, Sara Bellini, won first prize in the Design Innovation in Plastics 2007 Awards (awarded by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the Worshipful Company of Horners) for this work. She is currently working for DAC inbetween her studies and her winning entry, “Keepsafe Personal Bag Security Accessory” is to be developed with DAC
http://www.maindustrialdesign.com/archives/2007studentsuccess/2007studen...
Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft
Seminar
Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft:
Multi-agency delivery of a Secure Cycling City
Barbican Centre
3rd October, 2008
Help improve enjoyment of the public realm by sensitively tackling the issue of bike theft to further enable cycle use.
Our seminar will showcase a multi-agency approach success in planning, design, implementation and management of cycle parking, cycle theft prevention strategies and design responses.
The seminar will include a series of short films as well as an exhibition showcasing examples of design responses to bike theft.
Additionally, the seminar will introduce new user-focused tools to inform and empower service and product providers and users to put the brakes on cycle theft and to help deliver a secure cycling city.
Register online here
or
please rsvp to: d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk
Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft: Multi-agency delivery of a Secure Cycling City
Barbican Centre
3rd October, 2008
Help improve enjoyment of the public realm by sensitively tackling the issue of bike theft to further enable cycle use.
Our seminar will showcase a multi-agency approach success in planning, design, implementation and management of cycle parking, cycle theft prevention strategies and design responses.
The seminar will include a series of short films as well as an exhibition showcasing examples of design responses to bike theft.
Additionally, the seminar will introduce new user-focused tools to inform and empower service and product providers and users to put the brakes on cycle theft and to help deliver a secure cycling city.
Register online here
or
please rsvp to: d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk