Thesis Topic
Learning from grassroots sharing practices about nuances of sharing, and
re-contextualizing shared mobility practices, moving towards sustainable and equitable transportation system.
ShAREd
Accessible
Responsible
Empowering
Transportation
Process Diagram
Secondary
Research
Primary
Research
Insights
& Opportunity
Ideation
Why grassroots
community based
sharing practices?
Understand the incentives of true sharing practices, and all the elements related.
How, When, Why,
Impacts?, Interactions?,
Roles?
Ideation on engaging communities and transportation services.
Develop
Co- design
toolkit
Design
Frameworks
Bottom Up
research
Conduct
Co-design
Workshops
Top down
ideation
Secondary Research
01
Importance of physical mobility
Why grassroots
community based
sharing practices?
02
Traditional &
Disruptive solutions
03
Shared VS
Access economy
04
Power dynamics, politics & cultural practices
05
Grassroots community
based sharing
01
04
Grassroots
community
based sharing
Power dynamics,
politics & cultural practices
Importance of physical mobility
02
Traditional &
Disruptive solution
03
Shared VS
Access economy
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As we move towards
virtual advancements
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Declining social capital
in the USA
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Mobility injustice
Generalized visions or
hyper-capitalistic TNC services
VS
Understanding meanings, mechanisms of people
from different culture, race
perceive different resources.
05
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Historically marginalized
communities
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Segregated systems based on race, and culture
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"Small is Beautiful"
- E F Schumacher
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Guerrilla Gardening
Shared Economy - form of social exchange
VS
Access Economy - sharing is
market mediated
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Primary Research
01
LA Green Grounds
Understanding the
incentives of true sharing practices, and all the
elements related.
02
LA Eco Village
03
Public Transit & TNC's
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LA Green
Grounds
02
LA
Eco Village
03
Public Transit & TNC's
LA Green Grounds is a grassroots organization of volunteers dedicated to working with residents of South LA, CA to convert their front lawns and parkways into edible landscapes and urban farms.
The Los Angeles Eco-Village Intentional Community (LAEV-IC) is a 40-member group within a two-block neighborhood of about 500 people in central Los Angeles. They describe themselves as a diverse and activist community.
To connect the sharing aspect back to mobility, travelled in bus, metro and Uber & Lyft, listening and observing the ways in which people share spaces inside these vehicles and also their interaction at bus stops or metro stations.
5 interviews
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Founder
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Permanent & Temporary volunteer
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Dig-in program recipients
5 interviews
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Founder
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Co- founder
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Three renter members
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5 formal interviews of public transit users, and Lyft & Uber drivers & passengers
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4 informal interviews of co- passengers & drivers
Insight generation
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Insights on sharing
When people face
injustice or have
less access to
good quality
resources…
When neighbors
initiate shared
activities in visually
creative and open
spaces to uplift
the community..
When people are
engaged in
shared practices
within their
neighborhood…
Insights on shared moving spaces
When people drive
Uber/ Lyft, it gives
them opportunity
to connect with
others…
When passengers
travel in spaces
with similar
goals…..
When passengers
are not comfortable
with each others
social norms
When mobility
modes(Uber/ Lyft)
become a mere
tool(no emotional
connection)..
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Frameworks
Access Economy
Framework
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Access economy
model - predicated on
financial exchange.
2. Human connections of
drivers & passengers
3. Goal - how much
sharing happens in
access economy?
Community based
sharing Framework
(accessing mobility)
Sustained Equity Framework
To move towards:
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True sustained equity by creating equal partnerships between the top down authorities & bottom up practices
2. Generate feedback mechanisms
- Top down realities
-
Motivations to initiate
sharing practices
3. Complex nature of bottom up sharing practices
Grassroots sharing Framework
Community based
sharing Framework
(accessing mobility)
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Bottom up goals of individuals
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Barriers and gaps due to top down
realities towards
accessing mobility
3. The different top levels
bodies, operating at
different authoritative
levels.
To move towards:
-
True sustained equity by creating equal partnerships between the top down authorities & bottom up practices
2. Generate feedback mechanisms
Sustained Equity Framework
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Co-design Toolkit
