Sharing Trust: Tasteful Designs of Social Systems

Summary

A review of philosophies and sociologies of trust and cooperative action with a view to designing systems that promote shared product use.

Sharing Economies appear to be trending. And as with any phenomenon that is going to have a significant impact on the future, these economies have multiple manifestations with family resemblances. Websites like shareable.net, meshing.it and collaborativeconsumption.com, and their associated publications, are cataloguing an increasing number of sharing service systems, sometimes digital and/or larger-scale and/or for-profit, sometimes off-line and/or smaller-scale and non-monetary.