Lorraine Gamman

Lorraine Patricia Gamman (July 1957) is professor of design at the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central Saint Martins in the University of the Arts, London.[1]

Her taking of the oral history of professional shoplifter Shirley Pitts as part of her PhD[2] kindled her interest in oral history as a form and lead to her book Gone shopping: The story of Shirley Pitts, Queen of thieves.[3] In 2012, the production company Tiger Aspect bought an option to acquire the television and film rights to the book.

In 1999 Gamman founded the Design Against Crime Research Centre which has led a socially responsive design focus at Central Saint Martins and has won numerous awards. She has worked in it with Marcus Willcocks , and since 2002, in partnership with the designer and researcher, Professor Adam Thorpe, with whom she co founded the Socially Responsive Design Hub at CSM involving students and staff in research projects that address crime and other social problems through design. Also since 2012, linked to involvement with the DESIS network (founded by Ezio Manzini) Gamman and Thorpe have engaged with participatory design projects, including those working with inmates in prison. All this work has attracted significant funding from external research funding councils: action design research projects Gamman has either led or co collaborated with Adam Thorpe and Marcus Willcocks such as Makeright[4], Bikeoff[5], Grippa[6] and In The Bag[7].

Selected publications

  • The female gaze. The Women's Press, 1988. (With Margaret Marshment) ISBN 0704341093
  • Female fetishism: A new look. Lawrence & Wishart, 1994. (With Merja Makinen) ISBN 0853157553
  • Gone shopping: The story of Shirley Pitts, Queen of thieves. Signet/Penguin, 1996. ISBN 0451182588 (2nd edition 2012)
  • Dirty Washing – The Hidden Language of Soap Powder Boxes, Design Museum 2001 (With Sean O’Mara).
  • Built Environment: Sustainability via Security: A New Look, 35 (3), 2009. (Co-edited with Rachel Armitage). ISSN 02637960
  • Theft of customers’ personal property from cafes and bars. Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Problem- Specific Guides Series, Guide no. 60. U.S. Department of Justice, Centre for Problem Oriented Policing, 2010. (With Kate Bowers, Shane Johnson, Loreen Mamerow and Anna Warne). ISBN 978-1-935676-15-7
  • CoDesign - International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 7 (3-4). Special Issue on Socially Responsive Design, 2011. (Co-edited with Adam Thorpe) ISSN 1571-0882

Forthcoming publication

  • Tricky design: The ethics of things. 2018. (Joint editor with Tom Fisher) ISBN 978-1474277181

Gamman has written many journal articles (too numerous to list here) but some of the chapters in books she has written include:

  • Reviewing Queer Viewing – The Gaze Revisited (With Caroline Evans), 1995. In: A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture (Eds. P. Burston and C. Richardson), Routledge. ISBN 9780415096188
  • Visual Seduction and Perverse Compliance: Reviewing Food Fantasies, Hidden Appetites and ‘Grotesque’ Bodies, 2000. In: ‘Fashion Cultures’ (Eds. S. Bruzzi and P. Gibson), Routledge. ISBN 9780415206860
  • Self-fashioning and the shoe: what’s at stake in Female Fetishism or Narcissism, 2001. In ‘Footnotes: On Shoes’ (Eds. Suzanne Ferris and Shari Benstock), Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813528717
  • Criminality and creativity: what’s at stake in designing against crime? (With Adam Thorpe) In: Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century. Springer, New York/Vienna, pp. 52-67, 2010. ISBN 9783709102336
  • Reviewing the art of crime - what, if anything, do criminals and artists/designers have in common? (With Maziar Raein) In: Cropley, D. et al (Eds.) The Dark Side of Creativity. pp.155-177. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010. ISBN 9780521139601
  • Reducing Handbag Theft, 2012. (With Paul Ekblom, Kate Bowers, Aiden Sidebottom, Chris Thomas, Adam Thorpe and Marcus Willcocks). In: Ekblom, P. (Ed.) Design Against Crime: Crime Proofing Everyday Objects. Crime Prevention Studies 27. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner. ISBN 9781588268136
  • Female Slenderness and the Case of Perverse Compliant Deception - or Why Size Matters... In: Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. Routledge, pp. 296-304, 2013. ISBN 9780415680066
  • Could Design Help to Promote and Build Empathic Processes in Prison? Understanding the Role of Empathy and Design in Catalysing Social Change and Transformation. (With Adam Thorpe) In: Transformation Design: Perspectives on a New Design Attitude. Board of International Research in Design, 2015. Birkhäuser/ BIRD, pp. 83-100. ISBN 978-3-0356-0653-9
  • Design for Empathy – why participatory design has a contribution to make regarding facilitating restorative values and processes, 2016. (With Adam Thorpe) In: Gavrielides, T. (Ed.) Offenders No More: New Offender Rehabilitation Theory and Practice. NY: Nova Science Pub. ISBN 978-1-63483-681-4
  • What is “Socially Responsive Design and Innovation”?, 2015. (With Adam Thorpe) In: Fisher, F. and Sparke, P. (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138780507
  • Is Nudge as good as We Think in Designing Against crime? Contrasting Paternalistic and Fraternalistic Approaches to Design for Behaviour Change, 2018 (With Adam Thorpe) pp 216-234. In: Kristina Niedderer, Stephen Clune, Geke Ludden (Eds) Design for Behaviour Change: Theories and practices of designing for change (Design for Social Responsibility). ISBN 9781472471987

References

  1. ↑ http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/a-z/professor-lorraine-gamman/
  2. ↑ Gamman, Lorraine (1999). Discourses on women and shoplifting: a critical analysis of why female crime mythologies past and present operate to legitimate the incompatibility between female gender roles and the idea of women as active agents of crime. Middlesex University.
  3. ↑ The Story. Gone Shopping. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  4. ↑ www.makeright.org. Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. ↑ www.bikeoff.org. Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. ↑ www.grippaclip.com. Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  7. ↑ www.inthebag.org.uk. Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
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