Sharing by Design (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan, Ye Zhang

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 109
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today’s cities. To do so, it constructs a framework for practical inquiry into the design of sharing systems.

Further, the book invites readers to consider questions such as:

• If sharing can be designed, then how does one design a sharing system for cities?
• Which urban conditions make this sharing system possible?
• What are the considerations, variables, and methods that can inform and guide the designers of a sharing system?

By considering both the environmental and societal motivations for sharing, and the reality that most examples of the Sharing Economy are neither equitable in their socio-economic outcomes nor genuine in their original social promises, this book presents balanced and thoughtful answers to the questions posed above.

The book will appeal to a broad readership, from students and teachers in the various design disciplines, to professionals and scholars in architecture and urbanism, business and innovation, and other related fields of the humanities and social sciences, as well as activists and policymakers committed to achieving more sustainable and equitably distributed access to urban resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Connecting Sharing and Design
1.1 What Exactly Is Design?
1.2 The Many Meanings and Significance of Sharing Today
1.3 Why Is There a Need for Sharing by Design?
1.4 An Overview of This Book
References
2 Assessing the State of Sharing in the Sharing Economy
2.1 Sharing as a Social Act
2.2 Is Sharing Fully Reflected in Framing the Sharing Economy?
2.3 Is Sharing Fully Practiced in the Sharing Economy?
2.3.1 Access
2.3.2 Sharing with Strangers
2.3.3 Digital Platforms
2.4 A Complex Picture
2.5 A Need for Enhanced Sharing
References
3 Sharing by Design
3.1 Why Is Sharing Ascendant Today?
3.2 Reflexivity in Design: Ought Sharing Be Designed?
3.3 Design by Capital
3.4 A Concise Case Study: Co-living in Starcity San Jose
3.5 Design by Commoning
3.6 Co-housing: An Example of Design by Commoning
References
4 How to Design a Sharing System?
4.1 The Design Principles of Elinor Ostrom’s CPR Systems
4.2 Justifying the Systems Approach for Sharing by Design
4.3 Specifying the Components of the Sharing System
4.4 The Environment (of the Sharing System)
4.5 The Goal (of the Sharing System)
4.6 The Guarantors (of the Sharing System)
4.7 The Performance Measures (of the Sharing System)
4.8 The Stakeholders (of the Sharing System)
4.9 The Resources (of the Sharing System)
4.10 The Social Forces (of the Sharing System)
4.11 The Enemies (of the Sharing System)
4.12 A Brief Simulation of Designing a Waste-to-Energy Sharing System
References
5 Sharing Ethics
5.1 Why Is Ethics Important for Sharing?
5.2 Sharing Ethics: A Preliminary Outline
5.3 Three Key Distinctions
5.4 Sharing Ethics as Virtues
5.5 Sharing Ethics as Principles of Justice and Beneficence
5.6 Sharing Ethics as Ethical Expertise
References
6 Teaching Sharing by Design
6.1 The Architectural Studio as the Site of Teaching Sharing by Design
6.2 The Systems Approach for Sharing by Design: A Framework
6.3 Case Study: An Urban Design Studio on Sharing Cities
6.4 Background of the Urban Design Studio
6.5 Scheme One: Sharing Infrastructure
6.6 Scheme Two: Sharing Open Education
6.7 Discussion: Implication of the Systems Approach-Oriented Pedagogy for Design
References
7 Conclusion
References
Index