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Fighting after drinking in pubs in Britain has been found to cost over 2.5 million pounds to the British health care system as there are over 87,000 fights a year. The British Design Council enlisted a local design studio - DesignBridge - to make the glasses more difficult to smash and less dangerous to the victim. They've designed two prototypes, the Twin Wall and the Glass Plus. via
After 30 odd years in the global design industry opening doors to new
and frontier markets through exploratory user research, concept design, and innovation strategies, Niti returned to academia as a student to pursue a PhD in Product Development at Aalto University's Design Factory. Her dissertation looks at the contribution of design methods to foster agency and capacity for innovation as a resilience strategy to shocks at the micro-level of the individual. Her research approach has expanded the multidisciplinary lens of viability, feasibility, and desirability to a transdisciplinary one where participants generate the actionable knowledge for their own innovation pathways.
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Bar fights: design intervention to reduce cost and injuries
Is no-one congratulating the initiative to highlight that Design can be a more practical and elegant tool for dealing with social issues rather than throwing money & legislation at it ? (or just spoiling most people's fun).
The concept is transferable technology (bottles as well) recyclable, it keeps the drink cooler for longer, it costs the same and it remains a blunt object rather than breaking into many lethally sharp ones. It has the potential to reduce glass weight by 30%.
David - Design Bridge
http://www.designbridge.co.uk/
If the aim is to lower fighting after drinking then...lower drinking!!
(or, at worst, serve alcohol in bioplastic glasses.They won't harm anyone at all..)
p25 here http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708chap3.pdf says 4% of violent assaults involve glass. Which is very near the 87000 figure. But why assume all these assaults are pub fights?