Resource Sharing - Grounding the 21st Century Economy

Twenty-first century wealth-generating ecologies need to remain robust and flexible in order to allocate resources quickly and efficiently, and to mitigate the effects of constant fluctuations and redistributions. Nobel Prize recipient Elinor Ostrom's work on "commons" provides vital thinking towards a solution: peer governance and information transparency.

http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=resource-sharing-grounding-21st-century-...

TheHub is a design project by Ben Congleton, Jina Huh, Jiang Yang, Nicholas Senske, and myself that won honorable mention at the University of Michigan Arts on Earth Workplay 2008 competition.

The Hub is an interactive crossroads at the center of North Campus. It is literally a hub of social activity, bringing together food and people in a comfortable outdoor environment. But it is also a hub of information which displays data in an engaging plaza designed to resemble the spokes of wheel. The Hub improves life on north campus because it provides a gathering place with games, art, and information.

Team member Ben Congleton has put our work online including links to video, renderings, and the final poster.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcx/thehub/