Dear Güneş,
Güneş wrote: > Feeling of safeness can be deceptive sometimes... (By the
way in some ways they might be safer but all we can say is 'might', nobody
actually really knows).>
Marine safety design is an area that design research has contributed
strongly and successfully to improving marine safety outcomes via design
guidelines, particularly with ferries (see for example, development of
design guidelines for roll on roll off ferries at
http://www.nmsc.gov.au/Fastcraft/18_concl.pdf).
Older designs for ferries have a poor safety record. Over the last few
decades there has been a substantial amount of design research into
improving ferry safety. The international Maritime Organisation (IMO)'s
safety regulations guide designers to make vessels safer than they used to
be.
Interestingly, although marine safety design is clearly a substantial field
of design research, and of significant financial and social value (think oil
and gas platforms, transport of food, consumer goods and oil/gas), it has
been often ignored by design researchers with other interests. It deserves
moving up the visibility tree of successful design research fields.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dr. Terence Love, FRDS, AMIMechE, PMACM
Director Design-focused Research Group, Design Out Crime Research Group
Researcher, Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute
Associate, Planning and Transport Research Centre
Curtin University, PO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845
Mob: 0434 975 848, Fax +61(0)8 9305 7629, [log in to unmask]
Visiting Professor, Member of Scientific Council
UNIDCOM/ IADE, Lisbon, Portugal
Honorary Fellow, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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