Your perspectives on design against crime

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Addressing: Design Innovation in Public Services

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The big questions

How can designers create useful, desirable objects for consumers and at the same time reduce temptation and opportunity for criminals?
Will it be hard to engage manufacturers? After all, they sell more when people need to replace their stolen items with the latest models.
Good designers spend time getting into the heads of their users. How easy is it to understand the mindsets of abusers and misusers too?
Although crime figures are falling, fear of crime is not. What can designers do to make people feel more secure?

Sebastian Conran

Designer and founder member of the Design and Technology Alliance

This major phase of our work clearly shows that the Home Office has great confidence in the potential of the Designing Out Crime approach. The Design and Technology Alliance is a unique collaboration of some of the most experienced and creative minds in the country, and I am looking forward to seeing major positive impacts as a result of our work over the next three years.

Jacqui Smith

Home Secretary

I want to encourage architects, designers and industry to think about how innovative design solutions can help to reduce and even prevent crimes from occurring in the first place. We have worked successfully with the mobile phone industry to make phones less attractive to criminals. I want to see design and technology play a greater role in working to help make spaces, places and gadgets safer. By bringing experts from the world of design together with consumers and victims of crime, the Design and Technology Alliance will continue to deliver innovative and practical solutions to real problems

Recent submissions

Noleet said on 21/08/07 at 17.19

I think this is an impressive and outstanding initiative. It would be even greater if this initiative focused on other countries with greater crime rates like Colombia (where I live). Still, it is just great to learn about it. Using design as a non-violent tool to reduce crime is just genius.