Sharing cultures refers to communal practices that promote a resourceful, self-restained, and socially engaged lifestyle. Many scholars are increasingly seeing this as a possible way to challenge the dominant economic systems centered on market demand, resource extraction, and exploitation.

While individuals practicing sharing cultures are vital for encouraging and nurturing a sharing culture among more people, this project investigates how technology can play a more proactive role in promoting such sharing practices.

Inspired by the future vision of local sharing communities and by earlier works that intentionally incorporate ‘frictions’ into design and use agentic technology to promote sustainable behaviours, we developed Senito. This speculative tool uses its actions and speech to promote accountability, build community, and strengthen sharing cultures. Rather than proposing a specific solution, this project investigates how agentic technology can actively support the development of sharing cultures and how it might affect sharing practices.