Crime cutting alliance

The Design and Technology Alliance is a new advisory body which intends to focus design and technology skills and thinking on ways to make communities feel safer.

Helen Hamlyn Centre director Jeremy Myerson attended a meeting in September 2007 with Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker to discuss the Alliance’s programme and set objectives for the future.

Members of the Design and Technology Alliance are as follows:

• Sebastian Conran, Director Conran & Partners
• Lorraine Gamman, Professor and Director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
• David Kester, Chief Executive of the Design Council
• Gloria Laycock, Professor and Director of the UCL Centre for Security and Crime Science
• Joe McGeehan, Professor of Communications Engineering and Director of the Centre for Communications Research in Bristol University’s Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• Jeremy Myerson, Professor of Design Studies and Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art
• Ken Pease, Professor of Criminology, Loughborough University
• John Sorrell, Chairman of CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)
• Paul Stephenson, Deputy Commission of the Metropolitan Police
• Michael Wolff, Co-founder of the brand consultancy Wolff Olins