This project is about running a Maker space with trainer, tools and equipment to design and build three (3) market stalls; (two (2) refill stations; and one (1) stall for hire with a local booking system) and create downloadable maker blueprints for further stalls.

The Climate Studio project is informed by the Public Studio concept by Thorpe & Lang with a focus on extending placemaking practices across UAL Colleges.

The project aims to address inequality in access to green spaces in Somers Town by supporting communities to improve and enhance under-utilised housing estate land. The project has 3 strands: 1/Deliver a series of estate-based green space improvements, including new food growing space, improved spaces for play and social interaction, and greening interventions to respond and adapt to climate change. ​ 2/Support resident-led garden spaces through expansion of the ‘postcode gardener’ and Story Garden by Global Generation, including horticultural training, work experience, volunteering and job opportunities for residents.​ 3/Support for communities to help create & sustain these spaces, working in collaboration with Central Saint Martins to develop a green pop-up maker space with access to work space, tools and materials for residents to develop and share skills to support greening activities and create a greener future.

Installation of flexible market stalls and training programme across 4 markets within the Borough of Camden.

CSM will establish a Community Studio working across Somers Town and Regents Park Estate, to build on existing projects linked to issues exacerbated by Covid-19, alongside providing job opportunities to young people affected by the Covid-19 employment crisis. The work will focus on Euston but with links to knowledge exchange across the borough of Camden, particularly the Number 19 Neighbourhood Hub in Kentish Town.

demonstrate how culture, creative collaboration and wide engagement can unleash vibrant urban hubs of inclusive urban (re)generation, social innovation and enterprise. The project targets early stage regenerations in a diversity of historic urban areas in London, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Kaunas, Milan and Lisbon, and provides their PPPs with a unique ecosystem of capacity-building for radically new city-making approaches. Leveraging local coalitions of actors, we will use the masterplans of the targeted regenerations as the starting point to steer collective inquiry into their meanings and narratives, co-create visions of future spaces, and put them on stage via meanwhile uses and experiences. Throughout the process, culture and creativity will support voice and engagement, and help enrich and steer the masterplans towards heritage and culture- relevant innovation and enterprise, and social and cultural integration. Via trans-disciplinary action research, we will keep track of change, and build on the insights to add iteratively new layers of collective reflection and action. This learning by making will continuously inform masterplans and PPPs, consolidating, adjusting and providing new directions of urban development rooted in shared goals of sustainable city-making. T-Factor will work as an international community of practice, delivering an innovative city-mentoring model which will create multiple collaborations between the pilot cities, advance cultural and creative hubs, universities, enterprises and social organizations partnering the project, so as to shape an international movement of capacity-building and knowledge co-creation for the transformative time in urban regeneration leveraging heritage, culture and creativity.

This project brings together all stakeholders in Kings Cross and surrounding areas using socially responsive design to find new or renewed holistic approaches to address rough sleeping locally. Specifically, project partners will work with the rough sleeping community in tandem with those stakeholders best placed to support this work. The project will also expand our knowledge base by generating new research data and insights that will look to address rough sleeping and promote a conducive environment for a well-coordinated approach to address rough sleeping in the area, as well as increase awareness/understanding of key issues/challenges/barriers, and unlock the potential of local assets.

The project will focus on the establishment of a student project that supports MA Industrial Design at students at CSM, to engage with people that live and work in Somers Town to research and co-design ‘market furniture’ – including the People’s Fruit and Veg stand.

This project focussed on designing, facilitating, and delivering a series of workshops amongst key stakeholders in Camden to map the main contributing factors related to social isolation, and loneliness in the Borough, as well as co-design impactful solutions.

This project aims to address anti-social behaviour(ASB),including rough sleeping and begging whilst improving people’s experiences of public spaces. Specifically, it will engage key stakeholders to find innovative solutions to the site-specific challenges they face, using socially responsive design; (ii) generate new research data and insights about ways to address ASB and promote a conducive environment for pro –social behaviour in specific sites; and (iii) offer Victoria BID a palette of practical, design-based, site-specific interventions to choose from so as Victoria can realise its full potential for business and community prosperity and wellbeing.

This Follow-on Funding (FoF) application seeks to develop for dissemination the models, methods, tools and approaches piloted and iterated within the AHRC-funded 'Design Thinking for Prison Industries' project, led by Professors Gamman and Thorpe at the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC), University of the Arts London, in collaboration with Praveen Nahar, at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. The aim of the project is to extend the positive impact of the 'Design Thinking for Prison Industries' (DTPI) programme by 'scaling out' the delivery model to prison staff and those delivering criminal justice education programmes from public, private and third sector organisations in the UK. We will do this by developing the educational resources for digital dissemination and further refining the delivery, volunteering and enterprise models created and tested within the pilot project. Fulfillment of this aim requires the development and dissemination of three elements of the DTPI programme: A. Models i. The unique DTPI model for design education developed within a prison industries setting, communicating the 'theory of change' linked to 'design thinking and making' as restorative/transformative enterprise. This approach can help inmates understand different ways of being self-employed and the entrepreneurial opportunities available to them. ii. The model for equipping postgraduate prison volunteers with the necessary skills to provide mentoring and one-to-one facilitation of inmate learners, within a design-led DTPI programme, is unique. This model also offers a proven and pragmatic way of delivering the 'graduates into prison agenda' recommended by the Coates Review (2016), commissioned by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to improve effective education in prison. iii. The social enterprise model developed within the existing DTPI programme offers a new way for prison industries to meet the additional costs of programmes such as 'Makeright', a DTPI sub-project which enables inmates to co-design and produce commercial anti-theft bags (www.makeright.org) to support sustainability in a climate of economic austerity. B. Resources The FoF project will further develop and share the Makeright learning and teaching resources that deliver design thinking education that aims to build inmate empathy, resilience and entrepreneurship, as well as teaching for anti-theft bag design within UK prison textiles studios. The existing resources have been iteratively developed via the AHRC/British Council (Unbox) and Serco-funded pilot at HMP Thameside, London, and Sabarmati Jail, Ahmedabad. Whilst our evaluation of them shows that they are effective, we now need to re-design them in a form that is appropriate and accessible for use by other qualified delivery agencies in prison industry settings. The objective is to work with these agencies in the development and testing of the resources before finalisation. C. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and DTPI Training Module The project will also develop and test a 'train the trainer' programme for those in prison, design education and third sector agencies wanting to deliver similar projects based on our resources connected to local prison industry settings. Inmates who have worked on Makeright, when interviewed, tell us that they recognise that self-employment may be the most viable route to employment for them once they leave prison, in part because of stigma attached to being an ex-offender. Consequently, the Makeright knowledge exchange model and strategy has the capacity to build resilience and so is incredibly useful to prisons struggling to find employment for inmates. Planned Impact The press interest in the project to date is a strong indicator of its potential for impact; our ambition is to bring four constituencies into dialogue, including: - The crime and justice community, which is interested in what works in prison and how it might lead to 'desistance' (Maruna 2001; Laub & Sampson 2001); in particular those who are looking to build inmate resilience for the world of work. - The academic design research community, which is interested in how social design education and action research can be applied, linked to innovative methodologies and cross-disciplinary approaches to help democratise innovation and transform lives. - The business and entrepreneurial communities, which can contribute to enterprise strategies and learn how projects such as this enhance public services in sustainable ways, which may lead to improve service delivery, economic benefits and employment opportunities for inmates. - Social innovators, such as Forum for the Future, which are interested in how to manage change and change leadership, and to help communities build resilience. The DTPI/Makeright project has already received press attention internationally, but our new focus on dissemination intends to join up diverse communities in prison that do not usually connect in order to deliver impact by explaining how the process of the project is significant, more significant than the anti-theft bags generated. It will do this by: - providing more inmates in the national context with educational process resources aimed at finding new ways to catalyse change and reduce repeat offending, through design education, in particular design thinking skills - publishing account/s of how inmates' personal, social, artistic and professional skills including building empathy, trust and teamwork that impact on their lives and their engagement with wider society can be understood and addressed by prison industries and prison education - introducing inmates to new opportunities linked to self-employment narratives that will be further researched - helping to build empathy for crime victims and understanding of RJ processes. There is significant evidence that design processes, methods and tools generate empathy for users when they design objects for others; the team intends to develop these links and create systemic follow-on programme/course opportunities for inmates interested in RJ. The creative outputs generated by the project (not just anti-theft bags designed by inmates but system design and process methods about design creativity synthesised by the research team and built into the Makeright educational materials created) are likely to be further exhibited by museum education and learning teams who already engage with criminal justice exhibitions, including the Koestler Foundation, ClinkArts and NCJAA. It is also likely that the creativity of the inmates and the objects they produce in numerous prisons linked to Makeright programmes will lead to further opportunities for exhibition in diverse spaces including the Design Museum and possibly the Tate, and thus directly address every level of education. Formal learning groups such as secondary school programmes in design and technology will benefit from new forms of design analysis that this project offers, linked to accounts of the design process, as well as to the impact of 3D visualisations of anti-theft bags. Museum visitors may be another audience segment who will gain from learning about how creativity can transform lives, in addition to prison staff who will see from the project outputs how design thinking can make a difference and produce functional and beautiful commercial objects as well as change behaviour and mindsets. Beyond these likely impacts and gains, there are more speculative ones relating to how social cohesiveness can by supported by (and can support in turn) a wider state of community safety and perception of fair and satisfying justice.

Micro, small and medium designer fashion and textile businesses act as an engine for the wider UK fashion and textile sector, driving much of the creative conceptualization for the mass-market sector. However, lack of time and resources in the resource- and time-poor fashion and textile sector has inhibited R&D culture in fashion SMEs, weakening the UK sector's ability to innovate and capitalize on invention, and retain competitive edge internationally. Increasing pressures such as natural resource depletion, escalating consumption and waste, competition from overseas, and financial fluctuations driven by the seasonal nature of designer fashion all strongly indicate that the current fashion business model is unsustainable from both ecological and economic perspectives. Collaborative research and development between fashion designers and university researchers has great potential in addressing these issues, however this space is currently in its infancy. Micro enterprises and SMEs have a poor understanding of university research, its potential benefits and available funding opportunities. These businesses cannot allocate resource toward R&D beyond the inventive approaches applied but seldom capitalized upon in designer fashion. University researchers often work in isolation from the sector, use a different language and time frames that are not always compatible with industry needs and expectations. FIRE.Digital addresses these issues by developing the first digital platform for research-focused UK network of fashion SMEs and researchers. The key aim of the Platform is to galvanize collaborative research and innovation and provide sustainable source of data on UK fashion SMEs and research network. Building on the existing London-focused FIREup digital prototype (www.fireup.org.uk), FIRE.Digital will develop into a highend online tool for a UK-wide network of fashion industry and researchers to connect via user-friendly online network, as well as access curated fashion and textile research content, including news and funding opportunities. FIRE.Digital will develop existing standard backend tools to create bespoke digital data collation and visualization tools and methodologies, enabling capture of quantitative and qualitative data from the registered users. This data will provide significant insights into the structure of fashion SMEs, positioning of fashion and textile researchers, UK Fashion network formations, digital behavior in fashion SME's and researchers, barriers to collaborative research and open innovation in the UK fashion industry and lead towards establishing new research topics. These tools could potentially find application in wider creative industry research context. FIRE.Digital strategic and technical elements will be developed in collaboration with a Digital Agency. FIRE Focus Group, consisting of designer fashion and textile SMEs and researchers, will be utilized for analysis, development and testing of the platform. UAL researchers will focus on defining fashion ontology and typology, which will underpin the site functionalities, as well as act as a benchmark for classification of UK fashion and textile sector for digital purposes. A comprehensive database of UK fashion researchers and fashion/textile relevant higher education institutions will be collated in order to populate the platform and provide an accessible knowledge database of potential academic partners for collaborative research. The collation and classification of potential sources of fashion research news and information will provide a basis for a sustainable stream of fashion and textile research, and act as a reference resource for both fashion SMEs and researchers including development of new editorial content featuring groundbreaking people and research themes. Planned Impact The main beneficiary of the FIRE.Digital will be the UK fashion and textile sector. The project directly addresses the three main challenges identified by the British Fashion Council: lack of a formal R&D culture; lack of knowledge and contacts within the industry; and weak knowledge exchange and open innovation practices. FIRE.Digital platform will provide a new and dynamic way for the sector to interact with academic research. It will offer both curated and automatically generated content from selected sources and entirely new content generated by the FIRE community to fashion businesses. It will enable the sector to find relevant research partners, provide a stream of up to date information on new developments in fashion research, act as the primary repository for research information for designer fashion and textile enterprises, and information on available funding for collaborative R&D. In addition, the platform will provide a resource and repository for previous collaborative research and KE, thus creating benchmarks and exemplars for the sector to build upon. Fashion and textile researchers across the UK will have access to a research network and emerging themes within the fashion and textiles sector through FIRE network and digital platform and an opportunity to access industry partners. They will have access to substantial qualitative and quantitative data applicable in a range of research activities, from digital behavior to fashion networks. FIRE.Digital will facilitate new research consortia between fashion researchers, SME partners and industry organizations that will directly benefit fashion and textile HEIs across the UK. Learning from the research into and operation of the networks and insights generated from platform data regarding the designer fashion and textile sector can be disseminated and applied to other creative industries via academic networks, including the AHRC KE Hubs and their legacy within universities across the UK. FIRE will implement open research innovation, which will promote knowledge exchange and propose new business models driven by user led innovation for the UK designer fashion and textile sector. This will enable designer fashion and textile enterprises to change their business culture and practices by engaging with academic research utilizing KE and Open Innovation approaches. The findings resulting from FIRE activities will have impact on UK policy makers in developing and shaping new policies for a more sustainable UK fashion sector. Open Innovation and Knowledge exchange promoted by FIRE will enable the sector and academia to share best practices in tackling environmental impact of fashion sector and adopting more sustainable practices. FIRE.Digital offers a model that could be replicated for other sections of the creative industries, which are also characterized by fragmentation and an inhibited R&D culture amongst micro-enterprises and SMEs.

It is widely understood that the public sector in general and public services in particular need to be radically reshaped inorder to meet the needs of citizens in the context of diminishing public financing. Less well understood are the ways andmeans by which to do so. This one-year project explores the potential for, and value of, design-led research to addresssocietal challenges and to inform policy. It does this through establishing a 'Public Collaboration Lab' (PCL), a strategicresearch collaboration between local government (London Borough of Camden), the citizens they serve, and an HigherEducation institution (University of the Arts London). The project will use social innovation approaches to engage citizens and other societal actors in the co-design and co-delivery of some aspects of public services. These 'public and collaborative' approaches to service delivery (servicesdelivered with and by citizens and other agencies) seek to mobilise citizens as 'active collaborative people' rather than'passive individual people', 'service participants' rather than 'service users' and recognise citizens as both 'people withneeds' and 'people as assets in meeting their own and each other's needs'. However, despite the growing interest in therole, objectives and impact of design in strategic public sector contexts, there is also an acknowledged gap inunderstanding design's contribution to such situations. This project is designed to address that gap. Two interrelated action research activities will be delivered in parallel. The first will deliver a citizen-centred exploration ofexactly how such collaboration plays out in specific service contexts. For the pilot we propose to take the reform of LondonBorough of Camden's Library Services as our starting point. The second will explore the models, mechanisms andmeasurement of impact of the 'Public Collaboration Lab', evaluating the model and its wider potential as a means ofdemocratizing social and service innovation and informing policy. The project aims to: - Undertake a demonstrator social innovation project within a specially created 'public collaboration lab' to redesign publicservices through the application of collaborative design led approaches. - Increase understanding of HEI institutions' roles in supporting innovation practices within local government throughdesign led action research. - Explore the potential for co-design to democratize public service reform and improve pubic outcomes. - Co-design evaluative frameworks for assessing the role of design in local government service reform. - Propose means by which the pilot study could be upscaled within other contexts A process of examination and distillation will create a body of material which will serve as the basis for a series ofcoordinated outputs, including journal articles, conference papers, a research blog, case study material, service and socialinnovations, as well as a public collaboration lab model, framework and tools for HE/LG collaboration. The PCL team willwork closely with Nesta, Public Service Transformation Network, the international DESIS Network of over 40 DESIS labs,Impact Hub Network, Social Innovation Exchange, King's Cross Knowledge Quarter, Age UK and others to disseminateand maximise real-world impact of the project outputs. Dissemination will be integrated within the collaborativemethodology of the project, by involving relevant users, practitioners and policy makers in research, ideation andimplementation. To disseminate the findings, the project team will target major events and publications in the localgovernment, public policy, design research, and design HE communities. The final evaluation report will be designed in aforward-looking manner so that the lessons and opportunities arising from this pilot can be applied in other contexts. Funded Value: £384,507 Funded Period: Feb 15 - Oct 16 Funder: AHRC Project Status: Closed Project Category: Research Grant Project Reference: AH/N504282/1 Principal Investigator: Adam Thorpe Research Topic: Unclassified If populated the following is a graphic depicting where in the UK the given postcode is located.

In future cities, design can make a contribution by developing tools and techniques that will help address recidivism by reframing prison industries as holistic 'creative hubs' that could better equip inmates to find employment opportunities when they are released from prison. Across the world inmates often work for prison industries to keep busy, earn some income and learn new skills that may lead to future employment opportunities, but prison industries rarely focus on creative thinking processes that help educate prisoners to become more resilient in the highly competitive and changing work places of the city where expectations of employment are often not met amongst marginalised groups, who in huge numbers fail to find legitimate employment and thus resort to crime. This project aims to help break that cycle. In most prisons 'educational' and 'work' experiences are disconnected, and delivered separately; this project innovates a new approach. It explores if and how design engagement with prison industries offers new opportunities to connect with hard to reach prisoners. Also to draw on design to address the gap that currently exists between 'vocational' and 'educational' approaches to increasing employability amongst prisoners. The project introduces analytical approaches associated with 'design-thinking' (Kimbell, 2009, 2011) in accessible and visual ways into vocational prison industry activities, so that inmate learning can occur in pragmatic vocational contexts, producing a trial anti bag theft design or accessory. This 'Makeright' product currently being proposed - a label to be created by DACRC in both cities - engages inmates in co-designing and making products to protect potential victims from crime. Ultimately to deliver a form of 'restorative justice' by helping others avoid crime and perhaps also generating a much needed income stream for prisons. A pragmatic approach to thinking/making may suit some inmate learning styles. The aim is to develop and test new opportunities for prisoners to engage in traditional prison industry activities empowering them to learn additional skills (such as improved communication, collaboration, systemic reasoning and empathy) via the design of an anti theft bag or accessory. These skills may be achieved via an experimental approach to teaching 'design-thinking' to inmates linked to prisoner engagement with the Makeright product range both in London and Ahmedabad. Professor Lorraine Gamman and Professor Adam Thorpe of the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) at Central Saint Martins worked in partnership with HMP Wandsworth, London and led the project. They collaborated with Dr. Praveen Nahar of the National Institute of Design, Creative Writer Aliya Curmally and with Sabarmati Jail, in Ahmedabad to test the creative research materials/design brief generated by DACRC, and observe whether or not they have efficacy, and to write up.

The UK fashion industry is a vital part of the UK economy. It has a world-class reputation for the creativity of its designers, diversity of its retail offer and strength of its education and research institutions. However, the British Fashion Council has identified a number of issues preventing the industry from reaching its full growth potential. F.I.R.E addresses these issues by connecting university research and fashion companies. F.I.R.E (Fashion, Innovation, Research, Evolution) is an online space that aims to drive a more radical and experimental culture of research and development in the fashion and textile sector. It opens a new space to connect fashion researchers and academics with industry and encourage collaboration between designer fashion businesses and academic researchersin in order to catalyse partnerships for innovation, bring research closer to the industry and stimulate sustainable business growth for the UK designer fashion sector. The F.I.R.E platform offers a unique research portal where you can find curated content and updates on the latest developments in fashion and textile research and innovation. Creating a unique community, a trusted network where designers, academics and industry experts can share and promote innovation and research that is moving fashion forward. F.I.R.E allows businesses to: • Join a creative space for research and innovation • Bid for project funding • Access industry insights and best practices • Build new relationships at different levels within the industry in order to tap into academic/entrepreneurial expertise. • Explore how new collaborations between disciplines can be developed. • Develop UK production opportunities

This project seeks to establish DESIS-UK, as a national multidisciplinary network of individuals and organisations exploring design-led social innovation and sustainability, and to identify and agree its aims and objectives and ways of working, in collaboration with stakeholders. It aims to strengthen connections between design academics, design practitioners, and end users of design from public, private and third sector organisations and the communities they serve, to explore how best to employ design thinking and skills to deliver sustain-able social and environmental benefits to communities. DESIS-UK will be developed to interface with the International DESIS Network founded by Ezio Manzini (http://www.desis-network.org ) which is a network of global, regional and local design 'labs', comprised of teams of professors, researchers and students active in the promotion and delivery of design led social inno-vation for sustainability. The DESIS International network is decentralised, operating via regional nodes and local hubs, and acts to "Foster social innovation and sustainability by taking part in support projects and programs, gathering together and offering greater visibility to significant cases. Promoting design for social innovation both within and out-side the design community, developing appropriate design tools and organizing cultural and pedagogic activities. Fostering the circulation of ideas and experiences, with a peer-to-peer approach, between the different DESIS-Local initiatives to carrying out comparative research and co-producing courses at an international level." DESIS-UK network will constitute a DESIS-Local initiative and further to its creation seek to be active in: - Proposing and developing national and international research programs. - Organizing pedagogic initiatives (eg workshops, seminars, courses and conference) - Preparing pedagogic resources (eg teaching tools, course formats, bibliographic references). - Collecting and disseminating research information (eg case studies, projects and research results). - Promoting cultural and communication initiatives (eg exhibitions, publications and broadcasts). A series of 3 workshops will bring together academics, practitioners, and community end users of design (typically third sector organisations) to build UK capacity for design-led social innovation by creating connections, harvesting knowledge/ experience and exchanging and reviewing existing best practices. As well as being disseminated internationally via the existing DESIS website, the outcomes of these workshops will be discussed and documented online through a dedicated DESIS-UK webspace to be created as part of this project. Specifically, workshops will seek to; - Share and map current project cases, reviewing themes and approaches. - Map and connect disciplinary specialisms and skills amongst individuals and organisations within a DESIS-UK network. - Connect end users of design and research with researchers and student groups within academia to facilitate research, teaching and practice of design led social innovation nationwide. - Connect students and academia with the professional world to augment career opportunities, and the pedagogic requirements to support them. - Disseminate exemplars to the UK Network to share learning and inspire local and national initiatives. - Create visions/opportunities for future projects/research. This proposal aligns with the current highlight notice for Connected Communities in that it supports the three underpinning cross-cutting themes identified within the Connected Communities summit in Glasgow, July 2011, namely: - Connectivity within & between communities - Connecting research on communities - Connecting research with communities - & "enhanced harvesting" of research benefitting communities. Planned Impact Sharing of case studies within DESIS workshops will open the way to developing and building operational and innovative capacity to meet societal goals in sustainable ways across a network of diverse actors. Typically by connecting diverse agendas and activities to use existing resources and assets in new, more effective ways. Operational capacity: using existing resources in new ways for implementation Innovative capacity: identifying challenges and reframing them as opportunities Capacity will be developed and built by creating new, and sharing existing, knowledge, expertise, methods and tools. The workshops and network activity will be targeted to benefit many groups beyond the academic research community: Public Sector Those in local authorities charged with maintaining the quality and delivery of public services with diminishing resources will gain insights into how to do so in new and innovative ways. Workshops will provide a forum for peer-to-peer learning between public sector duty-holders from different parts of the country facing similar challenges in diverse contexts. These actors will also benefit from connecting with academics engaged in DESIS and with community users and providers (third sector). Policy makers will gain insights into good practice in this area and may seek to support such practices with policy recommendations. Private Sector Individuals and agencies in the private sector involved in delivering public services will benefit from access to exemplars. Design agencies creating a new economy linked to design led social innovation for sustainability, will gain connections with non-commercial actors. Symbiotic benefit for private sector agencies and the student cohort/early career researchers that attend the network events will come from the opportunity to contribute to the pedagogic agenda in ways that ensure a new generation of designers have the skills necessary to engage in this emerging area of professional practice. These activities will contribute to the growth of this sector creating economic wealth from meeting societal goals through design. Third Sector The Cabinet Office (2010) identifies several hundreds of thousands of social enterprises, charities, community groups and co-operatives increasingly involved in delivery of societal benefit. These groups will benefit from connections with academia and will gain insights into how design thinking and skills may contribute to the success of their activities. Connections with HE courses will offer opportunities to collaborate with students to prototype new ways of working, supported by tutors and researchers with whom they may exchange knowledge. Connecting Third Sector organisations with HE seeks brings subsidised design thinking and practice to organisations that may not typically have access to them building capacity for delivery of societal benefit and helping to create design industry jobs apart from market led, resource consuming product creation and within sustainable service provision driven by societal goals and a 'quadruple bottom line' of culture, economy, environment and society. Wider Public Benefit to the 'wider public' is at the core of DESIS activity. The overarching aim of the network and the capacities it aims to develop and build is the creation of public wellbeing linked to achievement of societal goals in sustainable ways. This includes, amongst others, addressing social cohesion, urban regeneration, healthy food accessibility, collaborative consumption and sustainable energy management via innovative initiatives such as community-supported agriculture and gardens, co-housing, carpooling, neighbourhood care, talent exchange and time banks. This project aims to develop a UK network of policy makers, researchers and practitioners to share, scale and innovate promising prototypes of such initiatives to benefit civil society.

This application aims to catalyse a design revolution in secure cycling provision for the 21st century, linked to the delivery of practice led research that is cutting edge in its design response to crime problems with far reaching social and environmental design implications (our definition of socially responsive design). The research seeks to use creative solutions to overcome the adverse effects of bicycle theft on the achievement of sustainable transport objectives within European cities and to assist in the promotion of cycling and the benefits it offers to society in terms of impact on health and improvements in the quality of the urban environment. Pedal bike theft continues to be a problem in London, the UK and internationally. Research shows that theft, or the fear of theft, is a primary inhibitor to bicycle usage and uptake. Clearly the impact of bicycle theft is not insignificant, and yet our preliminary research into bicycle theft, and the opportunities that exist for effective product and service interventions to reduce it, reveals gaps in both academic and educational resources, as well as commercial address to the significance of bike theft. Increased cycle infrastructure and its security, and the goal of increased bicycle usage, is high on the agenda of European urban design in the 21st century. Bicycle parking provision is seen to affect planning applications and increasingly both public and private funds are being made available to facilitate and promote cycle usage through enhanced infrastructure. The portfolio of projects, seeks to reduce bicycle theft by applying and integrating the design against crime approach to the design of bicycles, bicycle locks and bicycle parking via the generation of new benchmarks in terms of design standards, design methodologies, design resources, user evaluation and design education that will generate commercial product design application. To do this, the portfolio will seek to manage three iterative, practice led research projects, record and disseminate their findings via delivery of a SBD standard, a competition, publication of design resource, website and conference. The projects include address to: 1- Design standards and design methodologies 2- Design resource and design education 3- User evaluation Each project has distinct stakeholders groups. They include academics, police officers, local government officials, town planners, crime prevention advisors, architectural liaison officers, designers, engineers, architects, and criminologists who share concern with the problem of theft. The portfolio project structure will manage multi-disciplinary collaboration between stakeholders. Each research project tackles a stage within the delivery of secure design. This project structure, described in the case for support, favours the metaphor of a 'delivery cycle'. Its approach is neither top down, nor bottom up, but rather seeks to ensure that theories, as well as data from practice led design activities, meet and are combined in a holistic way at each stage of the cycle. To quote John Thackara, this research portfolio acknowledges the need to engage with 'design mindfullness', and the fact that design in the 21st century involves 'complex systems that are shaped by all the people who use them, and in this new era of collaborative innovation, designers are having to evolve from solely being the individual authors of objects or buildings, to acknowledge their role as being the facilitators of change among large groups of people.'