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73. Trust in Collaborative Economies and How to Study It: Relational Assets and the Making of More-than-Strangers

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Ann Light

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This chapter explores the nature of trust in collaborative economies: how we might see the work that trust is doing and know that it is the phenomenon of trust that we are looking at. It contrasts the work that neighbourhoods and locally focused enterprises undertake – to build trust as a valued interpersonal quality – with the legal mechanisms of the digital sharing economy, which resituate trust, shifting the focus from partners in a transaction to dependence on technology. In doing so, it identifies different roles that trust is playing and poses the question as to whether our reading of trust is subtle enough for the purposes of our designing. Along the way, it proposes a range of ethnographic forms to deepen our reading of these social aspects of transaction, including a place for our own response to new types of transaction. In doing so, it seeks to inform on the transition of groups of strangers into economies and collaborators: the ‘more-than-strangers’ of the title.

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2022
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100. Future public policy and its knowledge base: shaping worldviews through counterfactual world-making

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Per-Anders Hillgren, Michael Strange, and Ann Light

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Counterfactual thinking, Design, worldviews, Public Administration, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Corporate governance, Public policy, Climate change, Environmental ethics, Transformative learning, governance, Knowledge base, world-making, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, design fiction, Happiness, co-design, Design fiction, Counterfactual, business, media_common
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Research in diverse areas such as climate change, happiness and wellbeing emphasizes the need for transformative change, stressing the importance of rethinking established values, goals and paradigms prevailing among civil servants, policy- and decision makers. In this paper, we discuss a role that design can play in this, especially how processes of counterfactual world-making can help facilitate reflection on worldviews and the shape of future forms of governance. By exploring different presents, rather than conditions in the future, this approach allows civil servants to consider, create and resist playful alternatives to business-as-usual. In this way, we demonstrate how design can stimulate imagination both as to futures and people’s role in shaping these futures. Collaborative Future-Making

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2020
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