What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Manzini describes diversified access as creating a system whereby users can enter in a number of different ways and get similar results. Dim Dom, a French toy-sharing company, achieves this access by allowing consumers to participate through a number of different entry points—in this case, prices and the period of subscription. The company satisfie
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bottom-up community ecosystem that founder Pierre Omidyar calls an “of the people, by the people, for the people” environment.25
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption is enabling people to realize the enormous benefits of access to products and services over ownership, and at the same time save money, space, and time;
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
user. By predicting needs, they create a smarter, more efficient consumerism.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
backyard. Freecycle members say getting rid of old stuff can feel as good as getting new stuff. Some even describe the process as addictive and find themselves wondering, “What else can I give away?” New York Times columnist Rob Walker labeled this experience “unconsumption,” explaining that “what Freecycle has done is channel the same blend of uti
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collectives, and communes—are being refreshed and reinvented into appealing and valuable forms of collaboration and community. We call this groundswell Collaborative Consumption.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Product service systems and redistribution markets are two systems that lead us to rethink the reasons and way we consume products and services. But what about the less tangible and more personal assets that make up our day-to-day lives? What about things like our knowledge, time, workspaces, creativity, money, homes, gardens, and other social spac
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Services such as Zipcar, Bag Borrow and Steal, SolarCity, and DenimTherapy are not reinventing their industry’s product but reimagining the larger system within which their product operates.
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Other projects with similar intentions are emerging. They include NeighBorrow, Bright Neighbor, NeighborGoods, rBlock, GoGoVerde, Share Some Sugar, DaveZillion, and Skillshare, all of which help build a reciprocal and more sustainable community.