This document summarizes a 12-year project by the Design Against Crime Research Centre to combat bag and phone theft in the UK. It highlights several products and systems developed through the project, including Stop Thief chairs which were added to the MoMA's permanent collection. The goal of the project was to deliver social innovation and build capacity for change through both product design and open access resources, with the aim of catalyzing behavior change and addressing personal safety.

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Design Against Bag Theft Project
Portfolio 2000-2012 - Prof. Lorraine Gamman
12 years of Sustainable Design and Social Innovation
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2. Every minute in the UK another person becomes a victim of
bag/phone theft.
The Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) target
crime problems that compromise the ability of present and future
generations to meet their own needs and stand as a barrier to the
development of social and ethical agendas.
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3. DACRC aims to deliver
social innovation not just
through product, system
and service design but also
through the design of open
access resources that aim
to build operational and
innovative capacity in
others.
Visualising perpetrator
techniques and crime scripts
helps to identify where
interventions might catalyse
behaviour change.
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4. Stop Thief chairs, MoMA permanent collection 2011
DAC has spent 12 years pioneering stakeholder
consultation methods, participatory design and
open innovation processes to deliver products,
systems and services that have a role to play in
social design and innovation.
We work in an interdisciplinary way with multiple
partners. We seek new ways to make the world a
better place by delivering secure designs that don’t
look criminal and address issues about the need for
personal safety…
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