Shareable: Design for a shareable world

Death of an Exurb
Architect Mark Hogan reveals how the foreclosure crisis is changing the American landscape—and why we need shareable solutions.
10 Ways Our World is Becoming More Shareable
The quantifiable trends that are making sharing convenient, necessary, fulfilling, even profitable.
Can We Design Cities for Happiness?
The former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia explores how public spaces transformed his crime-ridden city into a new urban model.

Five Shareable Solutions to the Foreclosure Crisis

| 03.10.10, 5:51am | Comments (2)

Last year, banks foreclosed on almost three million homes. Five million more homeowners now owe more than their houses are worth.

public transportation

How to Design Family-Friendly Transit

By EngineerScotty

| 03.04.10, 1:46pm | Comments (0)

I'm a father of several small children, including twin four-year-old boys.

Social Media

How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading

By Paul M. Davis

| 03.04.10, 10:06am | Comments (0)

You can't go a day without someone declaring that the book is dead, whether at the hand of the Kindle, the iPad, or social media.

Everyday Sharing Solutions

How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group

By Emily Doskow

| 03.01.10, 10:07am | Comments (0)

Q: My house needs a lot of work, but I just don’t have the time or skills. Is sharing work with neighbors a solution? How can I can do that?

open source

Community-Supported Music

By Bernice Yeung

| 02.22.10, 10:24am | Comments (0)

It was the summer of 2007 and Kristin Hersh, frontwoman for the then-defunct band Throwing Muses, was at the end of a seven-month tour to promote her latest solo record.

collaboration

Improvisational Theater as Complex Adaptive System

By Michelle James

| 03.11.10, 10:02am | Comments (0)

I am in an improvisational theater performing group. We improvise full-length plays with nothing planned in advance. No structure. No outline. No character or plot development.

Generation Y

How to Hire for a Democratic Company

By Traci Fenton

| 03.09.10, 10:53am | Comments (0)

Q: How should I set up our company’s application and interview methods to ensure I employ the most value driven, hard working and qualified individuals?

Community Building

The Cooperative Beer

By David Bollier

| 03.09.10, 9:55am | Comments (2)

The venerable English pub has long been a place where everyone from the businessman to the housewife to the student, factory worker and vicar could meet as equals — a social commons that reflected the neighborhood and its idiosyncrasies.

news

Has Cab-Sharing in New York Really Failed?

By RACHEL BOTSMAN

| 03.09.10, 6:26am | Comments (1)

"Wondering why the city’s cab-sharing experiment fizzled last week?"

D4R

Design 4 Resilience: Thriving in an Uncertain World

By Neal Gorenflo

| 03.05.10, 6:47pm | Comments (0)

Shareable is proud to co-host D4R. Shareable is cohosting D4R because central to resilience is the idea that peer management of our resource base at the local level allows us to handle crisis well and rebound to new levels of human capacity a

Show more posts

Find us on Twitter!

@ShareableDesign on Twitter

Find us on Twitter!

Recent comments