sharing book

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share 1 | she( )r|nouna part or portion of a larger amount that is divided among a number of people, or

to which a number of people contribute : under the proposals, investors would pay

a greater share of the annual fees required | we gave them all the chance to have a

share in the profits.• one of the equal parts into which a company’s capital is divided, entitling the

holder to a proportion of the profits : bought 33 shares of American Standard.• part proprietorship of property held by joint owners : Jake had a share in a

large seagoing vessel.• [in sing. ] the allotted or due amount of something that a person expects

to have or to do, or that is expected to be accepted or done by them : she’s done

more than her fair share of globe-trotting.

verb [ trans. ]have a portion of (something) with another or others : he shared the pie with her | all

members of the band equally share the band’s profits.• [ trans. ] give a portion of (something) to another or others : money raised

will be shared between the two charities.• use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others : they once

shared a house in the Hamptons | [ intrans. ] there weren’t enough plates, so we

had to share | [as adj. ] (shared) a shared bottle of wine.• possess (a view or quality) in common with others : other countries don’t

share our reluctance to eat goat meat.• [ intrans. ] (share in) (of a number of people or organizations) have a part

in (something, esp. an activity) : the companies would share in the development of

three oil platforms.• tell someone about (something), esp. something personal : she had never

shared the secret with anyone before.

PHRASES

share and share alike having or receiving an equal share : their representatives

shared the inheritance share and share alike.

DERIVATIVES

share•a•ble (also shar•a•ble) adjective

shar•er noun

ORIGIN Old English scearu [division, part into which something may be divided,] of

Germanic origin; related to Dutch schare and German Schar ‘troop, multitude,’ also

to SHEAR . The verb dates from the late 16th cent.e


What I previously investigated in my Bachelors research was the game construction and how it elicit an engagement to keep players in play with enthusiasm. What was the meaning of play? Historian Johan Huizinga defines it as entering to the magic circle, getting immersed in this new world where completely different rules exists. Economist Edward Castranova adds to this meaning particularly referring to massively multi-player online role-playing games; It is a world where a different economic system exists, winning in games is more important then the money itself.

Whether it is online or offline, the game board itself, has no meaning or tension, other being an object of design, when it is not in play. It is the state of either being in or out of our daily life. Without suf-ficient circumstances, one can not enter to the game on it’s own, which renders the game board im-practicable for rest of it’s time. A game board is a rarely used object, which only gains currency in an occasion of gathering and vanishes right after yielding us a festal-time.

Similarly, this is how I think we treat our possessions; Short and entertaining. These objects glimpse us occasionally from their corner as we open our cupboards, reflecting back those nice-times we had with friends. Yet, it is the reason we keep our possessions as such , to make us smile for a second when we encounter them in our own house.

We play for our benefit, we know it’s not real but we still enjoy an activity of getting together. It not corroboratively producing but the joy of escaping. Just a game board with a well-constructed rules with rewards has the potential can allure people get together and share.

This was just a starting point for my project, through games I started to look at objects that builds an habit of sharing. What are the activities that we involve are in or what products we use or may use can create a change.

Are the products that are acclaimed by many as ‘world changing’ really doing so?

Take an Apple product for example. Although, some of it’s features suggests the idea of sharing, most of them are just made to inoculate more individualism under the name of independence. It may use technologies which haven’t seen before but it is not a change that I would like to see. For me the real change happens when we change human behaviour and the society. Products and ideas such as Barclys’ Bikes, Spotify, Wikileaks are part of real change. They are spreading generosity and a step against our selfish genes.

What are the possible services that can make our life easier to share with others ? Internet and media are definitely a great help and changing the world for good. However; We are still not capable of sharing our possessions as we share our thoughts and ideas through social media.


In this economic crisis we had to think wiser about how and what we consume, sharing is the solution I am directing my research studies at Goldsmiths. What is sharing economy and how it can improve

Some metaphysicans like Shakti Gawain justify this as the need to give away to open up a new space for good to come in, triggering an etheral renovation that leads to better things to substitute as “The nature doesn’t like void”. To keep, is just the matter of living back in memories and indispensably collecting their relation with the present.However, it doesn’t mean the relaxation of disposal but the understanding of continuous flow of the previous will be replaced for the better one.

Another topic is how to live and share our world with other creatures in the world. Tony Fry, in his talk raised a question about ‘do we share and interact with other living things in the world? or is this interaction enough?’ What other services can make us closer with each other or, make our life easy to share with others?

In my research book, I looked into the environments we share and brainstromed about the attributes attached to the shared products. My aim was find similarities between each shareable object and understand the attributes that makes them shareable. Later I thought about how I can apply these ideas and reuse them on other products which are not shareable.


What do we share ?What kind of things we already share now in our daily lives?

Sustenance: Food and drinks First Aid Kit

Exchange Values, money etc

Shared dishes, toilet, sink Sleeping facilities in shared accommodation

Leasure: Shared music studio equipments Shared Online Music

Shared movies and programs Sports Equipment Public Services: Seats in

vehicles Waiting points Vending Machines Litter Bins

ATM Machine Car Parks Elevators Escalators

Hire:Barclays Bikes Zipcar


Who do we share with ?Trust creates a network, psychology and characteristics of sharing,

humanity.

Core Family Partners Extended Family Our Pets

Friends Colleagues or Co-workers Employers, Boses Alumni

or Academicians Other members of a group or an organization Fellow

Students Fellow patients Strangers in the environment, internet

How do we share them ?1. Owning and permitting others to use. 2. Owning together 3. Hire from someone 4. Buy it from someone

Public Use funded by the governments Buy, sale Rent, hire


Where do we share them?

Living Places: Flats in the apartments Kitchen, sitting room and bathroom in shared houses

Hotel and hostel Dorms Communal Areas: Universities

Classrooms

Churches Public Libraries

Lounges and waiting rooms Parks Society clubs Hospitals

and health facilities Airports Museums Train and bus stations

Work Spaces: Offices Studios Workshops

Business Center Places we pay to get in: Theatres Cinema

Galleries Exhibitions Paid Museums Fairs

Membership Required: Social Clubs Educational Institutes and their libraries


Gyms

Online memberships: Facebook Twitter Instant Messaging

Blogs Online shares, rentals, organizations: Couch Surfing Airbnb

CSA Scheme Peer to peer loans; Prosper Zopa

Swaptree Ourswap Barthercard U-exchange

Kickstarter Quirky Pay with a Tweet Patients like Me

Flattr Groupon Freecycle Re-use it Landshare

Zilok ThredUP Rentals: Zipcar Vélib’, Barclays Bikes

Ski Resorts Seaside Sport Rentals DVD Rentals, BlockBusters, Lovefilm

Donations: Trusts ie. Save the Children Religious Organizations


Sight-seeingWhat people are consuming and throwing away? What really needs to be made into shareable?


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Progressive Footwear


Eindhoven Experience (28.10.2010)I managed to escape from London for 4 days during Dutch design week to visit Tom and his friends. I was out and around during whole day and saw excessive amounts of designed objects. I particularly looked into ones which can be featured or interpreted as shareable objects without considering any other properties or it’s designer.

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Collaborative Production Activities(& Collaborative Consumption! )

Annual Sushi-Night-In (13.11.2010)Sushi Nights are an ongoing event that I have been organizing once a year with friends at my place. It works as everyone brings a little piece of the sushi material and fish that they would like to include in their roll. We make a list of ingredients and spread it amongst us. I usually get the rice and the sea-weed. We prepare the dinner together, cut the fish and vegetables, roll our sushis and then cut them in pieces and enjoy them together!


Preparing Space


Collaborative Designing

Design for Animals (15.01.2011)Eleine Scarry talks about the relationship between our body to our possessions, and how we design objects to complete us, to become our extension to take the pain away. We identify ourselves with objects before we know what they are. Similarly, how would an animal would familiarize itself with the possessions we use? What would be the best way to design everyday objects to take away their pain?

Departing from our conversations, I made this into a game where my friends had to design a random object for a random animal they choose.

They had 2 buckets with folded paper pieces, one with the list of animals and the other with a list of eve-ryday products. They had to think about their animal first, check it up on google if they need. Later they had to think reasonably and while they present their idea to the group they had to explain and justify their design.

It is a little brainstorming exercise it requires an understanding of the animal, the customer.

A hint I gave to them was, if they had ‘Dog’ and ‘Television’, they should be thinking that a dog wouldn’t need a colour TV, as they are colour-blind.

toiletpenciltoothbrushmoppentelevisionradiophonewashing machinebook

picture framelamppaperchaircouchsidewalkwindowclockbedpillow

remotesoapforkspoonknifeplatebowltoothpasteshampooconditioner

mirrorkeyswalletpurseshirtpantsshoeswatchbraceletcups

flowerstreescomputermp3 playervideo gamescarstrucksstreet lights

List of everyday objects


aardvark addax alligator alpacaanteater antelope aoudad apeargali armadillo ass baboonbadger basilisk bat bearbeaver bighorn bison boarbudgerigar buffalo bull bunnyburro camel canary capybaracat chameleon chamois cheetahchimpanzee chinchilla chipmunk civetcoati

colt cony cougarcow coyote crocodile crowdeer dingo doe dogdonkey dormouse dromedary duckbilldugong eland elephant elkermine ewe fawn ferretfinch fish fox froggazelle gemsbok gila monster giraffegnu goat gopher gorillagrizzly bear ground hog guanaco

guinea pighamster hare hartebeest hedgehoghippopotamus hog horse hyenaibex iguana impala jackaljaguar jerboa kangaroo kidkinkajou kitten koala koodoolamb lemur leopard lionlizard llama lovebird lynxmandrill mare marmoset martenmink mole mongoose monkey

moose mountain goat mouse mulemusk deer musk-ox muskrat mustangmynah bird newt ocelot okapiopossum orangutan oryx otterox panda panther parakeetparrot peccary pig platypuspolar bear pony porcupine porpoiseprairie dog pronghorn puma puppyquagga rabbit raccoon ramrat

reindeer reptile rhinocerosroebuck salamander seal sheepshrew silver fox skunkslothsnake springbok squirrel stallionsteer tapir tiger toadturtle vicuna walrus warthogwaterbuck weasel whale wildcatwolf wolverine wombat woodchuckyak zebra zebu

List of animals


CHRIS


EDWARD


AGNES


CAROLIN


LAURENT


ROBIN


BILGE


LEA


Collaborative Making & Eating

Organizing: Bread Workshop with Alex Bettler (22.01.2011 - Istanbul)Having inspired by the collaborative projects and my ongoing promise to Alex about having a bread work-shop in Istanbul, I decided to take it a step further by choosing the date and time for this event.

It took a month to book a place, spread the posters, images and information and email each and every person who asked about the workshop. It was a very busy month and finally I got there with some help from my friends!

This was the first event I have organized everything myself from tip to toe, and I can say that I couldn’t have learnt these lessons otherwise and get to know that much people. I got very good feedbacks at the end of the workshop, which made me think that I should be doing this more.

Alex Bettler ile

Ekmek AtölyesiUlusal kimlikler üzerine bir günlük etkinlik.

EKMEK ATÖLYESI:Isviçreli tasarımcı Alexandre Bettler ile ulusal kimlikler üzerine eglenceli bir ekmek atölyesine davetlisiniz.

22 OCAK 2011Atölye çalısması saat 11.00—18.00 saatleri arasında sürecektir.

YER: Caravansarai.Bankalar Caddesi, Banka Sokak 3 (Eski numara ile 11) Tan Han 34420, Karaköy, Beyoglu, Istanbul.

KATILIM ve BILETLER:Katılım 30 kisi ile sınırlıdır. Yer ve malzeme ücretini karsilamak için atölye katılım ücreti 25 TL dir. *

Daha detaylı bilgi edinmek ve yerinizi ayırtmak [email protected] elektronik posta adresine katılımcıların isim ve soyadlarını yazarak bildirmeleri rica olunur.

*Bütün malzemeler atölye tarafından karsılanacaktır.

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Alex Bettler ile

Ekmek AtölyesiUlusal kimlikler üzerine bir günlük etkinlik.

EKMEK ATÖLYESI:Isviçreli tasarımcı Alexandre Bettler ile ulusal kimlikler üzerine eglenceli bir ekmek atölyesine davetlisiniz.

22 OCAK 2011Atölye çalısması saat 11.00—18.00 saatleri arasında sürecektir.

YER: Caravansarai.Bankalar Caddesi, Banka Sokak 3 (Eski numara ile 11) Tan Han 34420, Karaköy, Beyoglu, Istanbul.

KATILIM ve BILETLER:Katılım 30 kisi ile sınırlıdır. Yer ve malzeme ücretini karsilamak için atölye katılım ücreti 25 TL dir. *

Daha detaylı bilgi edinmek ve yerinizi ayırtmak [email protected] elektronik posta adresine katılımcıların isim ve soyadlarını yazarak bildirmeleri rica olunur.

*Bütün malzemeler atölye tarafından karsılanacaktır.

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ALEX BETTLER BREAD WORKSHOP

Alex Bettler will be running a bread workshop in Istanbul as part of his international bread workshop series. The theme of the workshop will be national identities and we will be exploring the ways ‘simit’, a traditional Turkish pastry, can act as a means of communication like a newspaper while it’s distributed in the streets.

www.aalex.info

22 January 2011The workshop will be running between the hours 11:00-18:00.

WhereCaravansaraiBankalar Street Banka Sokak 3 (Formerly 11) Tan Han 34420 Karaköy, Beyoğlu, Istanbulwww.caravansarai.info

Reservation and TicketsGroups are limited to 30 people. The workshop will require a 25 TL fee to cover the costs of the place and the equipment. All equipment will be provided by the workshop.

To reserve your place and for further details on the payment methods, please email [email protected] with your full names.

Programme- Introduction by Alex Bettler about his previous bread workshops and how to make a bread.- Preparing the dough of simit and bread.- Brainstorming about the distribution of information via simit vendors and the messages we want to spread.- Shaping the simit and bread dough.- Baking the dough and designing the newspaper to be distributed along with the simits.- Making the simits and the bread ready for distribution. - Tea time at the workshop. Afiyet olsun!

We are also expecting the participation of designer Gokhan Mura.


Alex’s presentation about his previous bread workshops.


Gokhan’s presentation on his research on food and eating.


Preparing doughs.


Leaving doughs for a rest and going out for research on streets to think about what message you want to give to your neighbourhood via simit or bread.


Shaping the breads according to the brief.


Getting breads baked at the local Pide owen, thanks to owners of Karadeniz Pide!


Our trip to pide owen.


We gave away the breads we made to the people of the neighbour, the one I did (below) was a gift for our very helpful chef, his portrait.


Reading List for SharingIt is ongoing thing, that I organize a sushi night where all the guests bring an ingredient of sushi.


Watching List for Sharing


sharing book

Documents

equal share

greater share

fair share of globetrotting

game construction

number of people

meaning of play

shared bottle of wine

game board impracticable