Design For a ShiftA public service that might shift our understanding of sharing

Dongin ShinMFA Transdisciplinary Design Thesis 2015

How the sharing economy changes our way of living especially in food systems and how design

might play a role here?

Interest

Alice P. Julier is a sociologist and the director of the graduate program in food studies in the School of Sustainability and the Environment at Chatham University

Food sharing also helps build stronger relationships between people and changes social perceptions.

Economic Reality

Environmental Pressure

Facilitation ofTechnology

Sharing? Owning?

Regulatory uncertainty

A service provider

A regulator

How might we, as a designer, develop design strategies to create a new public service that

enables sharing ownership?

Thesis Question

The lobby of the local government offices has been turned into a cafe, a library and a leisure place for citizens.

Seoul is supporting and co-creating sharing activities through “public-private cooperatives” to create a sustainable economy in which everyone wins together.

My micro NY

How might we, as a designer, develop design strategies for a new public service that enables sharing ownership?

My insignt is to develop design strategies for the NYC Housing Preservation and Development to apply sharing service for My micro NY that uses food as an element.

In Mondragon, the average general manager makes no more than five times more than the minimum wage paid in his or her cooperative. This is much less of a wage gap than in many other corporates. The wages are also decided through a voting system among the workers.This model helped the cooperatives survive through economic hardships.

They meet everyday and discuss every small detail around meals. This inclusive decision making allows them to remain stronger together.

Jeniffer has stated that they have three communal meals a week and every adult in each household should take the role of cooking and organizing the communal meal at least once every 6 weeks. While a communal meal in every week is not mandatory to participate, they do a potluck meal altogether twice a year to meet and have a meal together. Jennifer explained that it really helps them to get to know each other more personally and that work days become easier when you know your neighbors better.

The relationship among the members is already a very close form of a family.

They meet everyday and discuss around meals about every small detail. This in-clusive decision making makes them to sustain stronger together.

The shared ownership of this company has made workers sacrifice together during hard times. The family form of the shared ownership is an important part of cooperatives. Mondragon also faced a challenge in this as they scaled up to a global sized company. The result of non-member workers in Mondragon has led to a bigger wage gap and some within the Mondragon cooperative could not survive through economic hardships.

Competition from developing world competitors with lower labor costs could lead these cooperatives to collapse altogether. In fact, one of the Mondragon cooperatives, Fargo, filed for bankruptcy in November 2013 as a result of losing competition in the global market.

This cooperative is a neighborhood cooperative. The members of this cooperative consist of local residents.

Keep it local. Cooperative does not benefit from scaling up.

Create a strong community bond, just like a family. It will make operating easy and when the time comes they can make sacrifices together.

Members to be on a same page is very important. It could be made by appreciation of the common rules or democratic decision making.

It is not legally structured as a co-living housing system, yet it is an intentional community. So the scale is limited to 10 households in this community.

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