Sharing & Cooperativism: Designing For Economies

Abstract

Recent work on sharing and cooperativism has helped widen our understanding of the emerging systems for exchanges, interactions, and relationships beyond mainstream economic models, in particular through studying local cooperatives and their sharing practices across various domains. These efforts also indicate that design has the potential to shape our engagements with the global political economy. However, so far, there are few design resources tailored for exploring and further developing design insights from empirical and conceptual research on sharing and cooperativism. Therefore, we invite the community to discuss the role of design in relation to economies of sharing and cooperativism. In this workshop, we will gather a diverse group of scholars, designers, and activists to think together how designs for sustainable economies can be created and circulated across cooperatives and platforms, with the aim to springboard social and economic aspects of sharing cultures.

Chapter 13. Mapping the Landscape of Sharing and Cooperativism for Design Research and Practice

“…We prepared boards with three main activities: (1) Onboarding, (2) Deconstructing a platform, and (3) Towards Design Justice (Figure 13.1). For the details of the workshop's schedule, see Subasi et al (2020), and the corresponding website 3 for the accepted position papers. Below we briefly outline the three hands-on activities on Miro.…”

Becoming a Platform in Europe: On the Governance of the Collaborative Economy

“…Moreover, designers and design decisions have potential in ensuring sustainable development of non-profit resource sharing arrangements (e.g., see Fedosov et al, 2018Fedosov et al, , 2021a. We aim to foster such a discussion by presenting the outcomes of a design workshop (Subasi et al, 2020) focused on unpacking decisions made in the design of platforms (e.g., regarding governance structures, platform ownership, privacy strategies for membership) and their relevance in the context of sharing and cooperativism.…”