Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Introduction: Connecting Sharing and Design

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Sharing by Design

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology ((BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES))

  • 416 Accesses

Abstract

Sharing and design have yet to be systematically connected even when more effective or efficient configurations of sharing require design knowledge and action. In this chapter, the idea of sharing by design is introduced. The primary question is: How is the sharing system designed? To address this question, this chapter begins by examining the definitions of design, and also sharing. Subsequently, three justifications for the need of sharing by design are offered. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the book.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • A. Balsamo, Designing Culture: the Technological Imagination at Work (Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2011)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • C. Barnett, Foreword, in Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: practices, Politics and Possibilities, ed. by A. Ince, S.M. Hall (Routledge, New York, NY, 2018), pp. x–xiv

    Google Scholar 

  • G. Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000)

    Google Scholar 

  • R. Belk, Why not share rather than own? Annal. Am. Acad. Polit. Soc. Sci. 611(1), 126–140 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716206298483

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • R. Belk, Sharing. J. Consum. Res. 36(5), 715–734 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1086/612649

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. Benedictus, The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money? The Guardian (2019), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/24/library-of-things-borrowing-scheme-conquer-world

  • N. Bhatia, A. Steinmuller, Spatial models for the domestic commons: communes, co-living and cooperatives. Archit. Des. Spec. Issue: Hous. Interv.: Archit. Towards Soc. Equity 88(4), 120–127 (2018)

    Google Scholar 

  • R. Botsman, R. Rogers, What’s Mine is Yours: the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (HarperBusiness, New York, NY, 2011)

    Google Scholar 

  • J.K.H. Chan, Y. Zhang, Sharing space: urban sharing, sharing a living space, and shared social spaces. Space Cult. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331218806160

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • S.R. Davies, Hackerspaces: making the Maker Movement (Polity, Malden, MA 2017)

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Davies, D. Evans, Urban food sharing: emerging geographies of production, consumption and exchange. Geoforum (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.015

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A.R. Davies, Urban Food Sharing: rules, Tools and Networks (Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2019)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • A. Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse: radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Makings of Worlds (Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2017)

    Google Scholar 

  • K. Frenken, J. Schor, Putting the sharing economy into perspective. Environ. Innov. Soc. Trans. 23, 3–10 (2017)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • B.M. Frischmann, Infrastructure: the Social Value of Shared Resources (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2012)

    Google Scholar 

  • E. Goffman, Interaction Ritual: essays in Face-to-Face Behavior (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005)

    Google Scholar 

  • S.M. Hall, A. Ince, Introduction: sharing economies in times of crisis, in Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: practices, Politics and Possibilities, ed. by A. Ince, S.M. Hall (Routledge, New York, NY, 2018), pp. 1–15

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Hult, K. Bradley, Planning for sharing—Providing infrastructure for citizens to be makers and sharers. Plan. Theory Pract. 18(4), 597–615 (2017)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. Huron, Working with strangers in saturated space: reclaiming and maintaining the urban commons. Antipode 47(4), 963–979 (2015)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • H. Jarvis, Sharing, togetherness and intentional degrowth. Prog. Hum. Geogr. 43(2), 256–275 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517746519

  • N.A. John, The Age of Sharing (Polity, Malden, MA, 2017)

    Google Scholar 

  • E. Katrini, Sharing culture: on definitions, values, and emergence. Sociol. Rev. Monogr. 66(2), 425–446 (2018)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • E. Katrini, Creating the Everyday Commons: spatial Patterns of Sharing Culture. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2019)

    Google Scholar 

  • K. Krippendorf, The Semantic Turn: a New Foundation for Design (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2006)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • I. Mariotti, C. Pacchi, S. Di Vita, Co-working spaces in Milan: location patterns and urban effects. J. Urban Technol. 24(3), 47–66 (2017)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. McLaren, J. Agyeman, Sharing Cities: a Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2015)

    Google Scholar 

  • J. Merkel, Coworking and innovation, in The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation, ed. by H. Bathelt, P. Cohendet, S. Henn, L. Simon (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2017), pp. 570–586

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • K.M. Murphy, Design and anthropology. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 45, 433–449 (2016)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • E. Ostrom, Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2006)

    Google Scholar 

  • D. Petrescu, C. Petcou, C. Baibarac, Co-producing commons-based resilience: lessons from R-urban. Build. Res. Inf. 44(7), 717–736 (2016)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J.A. Price, Sharing: the integration of intimate economies. Anthropologica 17(1), 3–27 (1975)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Sharing Economy (2015), https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/library/consumer-intelligence-series/sharing-economy.html

  • J.P. Protzen, D.J. Harris, The Universe of Design: Horst Rittel’s Theories of Design and Planning (Routledge, New York, NY, 2010)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • C.M. Rose, The comedy of the commons: commerce, custom, and inherently public property. Univ. Chic. Law Rev. 53(3), 711–781 (1986)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. Sargisson, Swimming against the tide: collaborative housing and practices of sharing, in Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: practices, Politics and Possibilities, ed. by A. Ince, S.M. Hall (Routledge, London, UK, 2018), pp. 145–149

    Google Scholar 

  • D.A. Schön, The design process, in Varieties of Thinking, ed. by V.A. Howard (Routledge, New York, NY, 1990), pp. 110–141

    Google Scholar 

  • J.B. Schor, W. Attwood-Charles, The “sharing” economy: Labor, inequality, and social connection on for-profit platforms. Sociol. Compass (2017), https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12493

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J.B. Schor, Debating the Sharing Economy (2014), https://greattransition.org/publication/debating-the-sharing-economy

  • J.B. Schor, Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?: findings from a qualitative study of platform providers. Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. 10, 263–279 (2017)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • H.A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd edn. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996)

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1974)

    Google Scholar 

  • M. Tomasello, A natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • W. Ulrich, Can we secure future-responsive management through systems thinking and design? Interfaces 24(4), 26–27 (1994)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • T. Widlok, Sharing by default? outline of an anthropology of virtue. Anthropol. Theory 4(1), 53–70 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • T. Widlok, Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing (Routledge, New York, NY, 2017)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore

    Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan

  2. Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Ye Zhang

Authors
  1. Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ye Zhang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Chan, J.K.H., Zhang, Y. (2020). Introduction: Connecting Sharing and Design. In: Sharing by Design. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43569-1_1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43569-1_1

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-43568-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-43569-1

  • eBook Packages: EnergyEnergy (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation