Bonding/ Sharing/ Interaction

what are reasons to bond?

& what people want to share?

& how to encourage social interaction?

The way we live, work and shop is changing. We are making live more sustainable, more efficient and livelier. But how can we make people feel more connected? and how do people bind themselfs?

Dutch people like to share things, share food or help people in an other way. The personal contact is very important, its even more important then durability. 4 of the 5 people share a car sometimes, a meal, a newspaper, clothes and living. (https://www.volkskrant.nl/archief/spullen-delen-geeft-mensen-goed-gevoel~a3564713)

(www.sharedlivingenvironment.nl)

The sub-economy changes the way we live, work and shop. Integrating the sub-economy into area development makes living environments more sustainable, more efficient and livelier. This is what we call Shared Living Environment. On this platform they exchange knowledge and ideas about this new form of living and living.

People are connected to eachother in different ways: It can be by Affective bonds, with your family and friends; Economic bonds, with the store where you buy food; Cognitive bindings, with your teachers, or tennis trainer; also you can have Political bindings, with the politicians you vote, but also by laws, with a minister or mayor of your city. When you are bound by a city where you work and you are searching for a place to stay, you can go to the ZOKU hotel in Amsterdam; their mission is “to mix together like-minded individuals under one roof – aligning our international residents with internationally minded locals. We expanded the definition of a hotel to make it a platform where knowledge, ideas and people can mingle on a daily basis.“

So there are already hotels and companies who motivates you to have social contact to each other, but its still sometimes weird to talk a new conversation with a total stranger.

Therefor you need to be stimulated, how can you start interaction with a stranger?

There is a lot of social communication by phone. When you go from A to B you want to have contact with people around you, its more hard nowadays because everybody has her/his phone, how can we stimulate to have more contact in transit?

some designers are thinking about how to stimulate interaction in public spaces, so has the designer Neulhae Cho’s “Swingers” chair, a palindromic bench with two chairs on either end connected by a curved bridge that like a swing or a seesaw, distributs weights from one side to another. According to Cho, the bend of the bench moves individuals closer to each other, thus facilitating interactions between friends and strangers alike in public space.

So this is a very important part of the economy right now, people now think in social equals social media. but I hope we get back the social interaction, just as for the mobile era. There is no critical solution for this, Perhaps there should be mobile free spaces, just like the cigarette.

#bounding #sharing #interaction