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Hey Babe – Take a Walk on the Wild Side!: Why Role-playing and Visualization of User and Abuser “Scripts” Offer Useful Tools to Effectively “Think Thief” and Build Empathy to Design Against Crime

Gamman, Lorraine and Thorpe, Adam and Malpass, Matt and Liparova, Eva (2012) Hey Babe – Take a Walk on the Wild Side!: Why Role-playing and Visualization of User and Abuser “Scripts” Offer Useful Tools to Effectively “Think Thief” and Build Empathy to Design Against Crime. Design and Culture, 4 (2). pp. 171-193. ISSN 1754-7075

Type of Research: Article
Creators: Gamman, Lorraine and Thorpe, Adam and Malpass, Matt and Liparova, Eva
Description:

There is a self-evident need to “think thief“ when designing against crime. If we do not understand how thieves operate, how are we to thwart their efforts? Also, precisely how should designers go about trying to think like a thief? This paper attempts to address a gap in knowledge. It seeks to introduce role-playing and empathic tools and techniques from drama and design to generate strategies that might inspire and help designers to design against crime. The paper describes how immersive and empathic methods employed in design and theater, supported by “scripting“ exercises detailing the human and non-human actors and competencies in given crime scenarios, provide tools for designers to better understand the problem context. Such methods help generate insight into the opportunistic mindset of the casual thief, or even the professional career criminal, without losing sight of the need to design for users.

Official Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/design-and-culture/
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: Design against crime; drama; empathy tools; reframing; think thief; visual scripts
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: Bloomsbury
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Research Centres/Networks > Design Against Crime at the Innovation Centre (DAC)
Date: July 2012
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2752/175470812X13281948975495
Date Deposited: 19 Sep 2013 10:03
Last Modified: 08 Oct 2015 05:40
Item ID: 6101
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6101

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