Designing Cross-Disciplinary Relationships for Improving Safety
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Ferrarello3
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.21606/drs.2020.129
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- DRS2020: Synergy
- First page
- 1458
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- ISSN
- 2398-3132
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2020/researchpapers/12/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- A new design methodology for the prevention and mitigation of future global risks that is outcome of two industry-academia collaborations - the Safety Grand Challenge project (£70K) and the Design for Safety Foresight Review project (£80K) granted by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) - that enquired through action, participatory research and co-design the role of design to reconcile the fundamental nature of technology and people to develop systems able to respond to current and future challenges and risks.
By engaging with over 200 cross-sector experts from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, UK Pilot’s Maritime Association (UKMPA), International Maritime Pilots’ Association, Port of London Authority, NASA amongst others, Design for Safety significance is reflected in the mitigation of risk through the human resilient capability of learning and adapting. With design acting as product and strategy we developed a new approach to safety that generates ownership and proactivity by leveraging peer-to-peer learning, knowledge exchange and creativity. This research was disseminated in conferences [3] [4] [5], reports [1] [2] and exhibitions [2].
Main outcomes of these collaborations are: (1) changed the LRF’s funding strategy, which now includes design to understand safety behaviour and engages a wider stakeholder network; (2) influenced the first global survey on people’s perception of risks (140,000 people across 42 countries) that the LRF commissioned to Gallup; (3) led to an investments of £5m generated by the partnership between the LRF and the Royal Academy of Engineering; (4) changed how the UKMPA engages with a cross-section of companies and legislators which also has resulted in amending non-complainant pilot ladders from 12 different container ships in the same class; (5) developed the business of HELM Innovation (£180,000 grants+investments) currently filing patents which reduces of 80% the risk of accident and loss of life.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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