Designing Visible Counter-Terrorism Interventions in Public Spaces
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 14
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Hostile Intent and Counter-Terrorism: Human Factors Theory and Application
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- ISBN
- 978-1-4094-4521-0
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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
- This research asked what the role of the designer and publics are in contexts of public security, perceptions of terrorist threat, and questions of critical infrastructure. It explored temporary urban art and design interventions in sculptural, performative, playful and digital interaction forms as means of disrupting inattention and disrupting possible hostile intent.
Ben Dalton took a design-led approach to the material-discursive and participatory question of how to design visible counter-terrorism interventions in public spaces as co-investigator within the multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional investigation, drawing together design researchers from two EPSRC Detecting Terrorist Activities research projects (EP/F008503/1 and his own EP/H02302X/1). A mixture of directed human-factors temporary architecture design research and more exploratory research through design methods were employed, structured through grounded theorising.
The book chapter Designing Visible Counter-Terrorism Interventions in Public Spaces, was followed by further documentation of the findings in the journal article Shaping Pedestrian Movement through Playful Interventions in Security Planning: What Do Field Surveys Suggest? in the Journal of Urban Design, 2016.
Designer and public participation are both positioned as central to notions of counter-terrorism critical infrastructure, rather than as addendums to more traditional authoritarian approaches that do not offer sustainable or publicly empowering intervention patterns. This research was developed in consultation with and fed back into work by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) government authority.
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