The project explores the contribution of digital platforms to Social Sharing, a term used for the nonreciprocal, social aspect of Sharing, in the context of a local neighbourhood. Sharing is considered a way to create more sustainable ways of living and empower community engagement in cities.  The project used participatory design processes to create a conceptual prototype of a Sharing Platform. The platform proposes a digital whiteboard as a communication tool among residents and a board of Sharing actions modules to trigger residents' imagination on what can be shared. The outcomes of the process also entailed connections among stakeholders and the potential of new sharing initiatives. The project provides insights into methods for designing feasible solutions for the future using playfulness. It discusses how trust and access are established through digital platforms. Finally, it argues for the role of the latter as facilitators for social exchange in place.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur kulturarv och minne omförhandlas, materialiseras och upplevs i samband med stadsutveckling av ett komplext kulturarv. Undersökningen fokuseras till området Sege park i Kirseberg, som ligger i östra delen av Malmö. Det nya området planeras på samma plats där mentalsjukhuset Malmö Östra sjukhus låg i drygt 60 år innan det slutligen avvecklades 1995. Metoden utgörs av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av bland annat planeringsdokument och bilder som kompletteras med författarens upplevelse av platsen. Undersökningen visar att det byggda kulturarvet i stor mån värnas i samband med omvandlingen, men att platsens narrativ samtidigt skrivs om för att bättre passa in i utvecklingen av det nya bostadsområdet. I kombination med få direkta referenser till den tidigare användningen som mentalsjukhus som skyltar och dylikt görs minnet av Östra sjukhuset svårtillgängligt för den som inte är informerad om platsens historia.

This thesis identifies factors for success and un-success in European sustainable urban development projects and subsequently aims to correlate them with the characteristics and practices of an on-going project, concluding in a set of policy recommendations. Worldwide urbanisation brings a concentration of activities contributing to environmental degradation and social injustice, which implies the need for implementing sustainable development practices in urban planning. Several examples of sustainability-niched experiment districts are found in Europe and in this study four of them were examined through a structured literature review. Results showed that factors impacting the outcomes of the projects were clustered in five broad categories: political/policy, project governance, financial/economic, technical/design and resident/citizen factors. Recurring factors, also implied in the process of the on-going development of Sege Park in Malmö involved multi-scale knowledge transfer, unified leadership, continuity in communication and funding, reflexivity, market fluctuations, design and lifestyle/affluence. By applying a transition management perspective to these recurring factors and their implications for the Sege Park district, the results of this thesis lastly concluded in a set of policy recommendations. Potential transition actors may facilitate the process on a larger scale by partaking in long-term, multi-scalar networks for urban transitions, and on a smaller scale by creating and fostering arenas and policies promoting reflexivity in a city. Furthermore, a continued exploration of pathways and strategies towards a long-term sustainability vision shared by project actors, as well as ways to secure continuous funding for projects is encouraged. A slight shift from mainly relying on technology to solve sustainability issues, towards and integrated socio-technical systems model may be observed in the on-going project. Future challenges to take on may involve gentrification processes, insecure funding, institutional reflexivity and syncing legislation with the process towards sustainability transitions.