MFA Transdisciplinary Thesis on shifting ideas around sharing and public service design through design.

1. Design For a Shift
A public service that might shift our understanding of sharing
Dongin Shin
MFA Transdisciplinary Design Thesis 2015

4. How the sharing economy changes our way of
living especially in food systems and how design
might play a role here?
Interest

5. 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.

6. Economic Reality
Environmental Pressure
Facilitation of
Technology

7. Sharing? Owning?
Regulatory uncertainty

8. A service provider
A regulator

9. How might we, as a designer, develop design
strategies to create a new public service that
enables sharing ownership?
Thesis Question

10. 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.

12. My micro NY

14. 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.

15. 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.
Intentional co-living
community in San
Fransisco
Mondragon
Northeast
Investment
Cooperative
Analysis
ScaleCommunityRules

22. www.PublicKitchenProject.com

24. Design For a Shift