TREsPASS Book 3: Creative Engagements

In this book we examine the role that creative security engagements have played in the TREsPASS project. These engagements are part of a wider creative securities approach that explores the contributions that social practices make to protection of data and information. Our most popular creative security engagement was the participative modelling of risk scenarios in LEGO. Over 300 participants worked with our creative engagement tools and artefacts over the life-time of the project. These creative engagements were designed to bring together stakeholders from different backgrounds to form a collective picture about the information risks in a particular service scenario. One participant summarised the value of the LEGO engagement in this way: “The best thing about this is that normally we have to try to somehow keep all of this in mind, whereas this [process] allows us to see it all at once‿. As the TREsPASS project progressed we refined our creative security engagements to enable participants to focus on the interactions and relationships within a particular scenario and examine them from different perspectives. This book represents our approach to creative engagements and gives examples of where we have used this approach to positive effect.