Industry challenges: Security

Our homes, schools and businesses can all feel vulnerable and insecure as the effects of the recession continue. Designers can bring a fresh eye to the search for ways to cut the risk of crime.

Where existing innovation systems fail to provide better security faster,we are demonstrating designers' ability to take problems such as alcohol-related crime and hot product theft, analyse the causes from their unique perspective and deliver new thinking and real solutions.

Design Out Crime

The Design Out Crime programme is demonstrating how designers can stimulate innovation and provide solutions to big problems such as crime in our homes, schools and businesses and to hot product and alcohol related crime.

With the Home Office’s Design and Technology Alliance Against Crime, the Design Out Crime programme is challenging designers to work with industry experts to tackle problems in five key areas where design can play an important role in fighting crime.

Design interventions can deliver new thinking and real solutions that cut the cost and burden of the problem while creating new enterprise and revenue opportunities for  businesses and designers alike.

Design Out Crime is tackling projects including:

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Alcohol related crim
e

Designing a safer pint glass

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Hot product thef
t

Designing more secure
mobile phones

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Business crim
e

Designing business
security toolkits

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Crime in school
s

Engaging the next
generation

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Housing crim
e

Designing ways to make
our homes feel
more secure

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Case studies

Examples of design being
used to tackle crime

 

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Design and Technology Alliance Against Crime

Design and Technology Alliance Against Crime logo 

The Alliance is a group of independent experts from the worlds of design, industry and law enforcement, whose task is to bring about innovation and encourage others to ‘think crime’ in the first stages of product development.