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SusLabNWESustainable Labs North West Europe

www.suslabnwe.eu | 2 SusLabNWE 2012

Within SuslabNWE leading

academic partners form an open

platform with local companies

and governments. The infra-

structure of SusLabNWE allows

partners to develop innovative

technologies for sustainable liv-

ing that better suits the behaviour

and demands of users.

RotterdamLondon

Göteborg

TU Delft Woonbron

CityPorts AcademyInstitute for Sustainability

Johanneberg Science Park

Chalmers TH

Imperial College London

Nordrhein-WestfalenInnovationCity Ruhr

Hochschule Ruhr-West

Wuppertal Institute

Royal College of Art

SusLabNWE 3

Methodology 4

Projectpartners, Tasks and Contributions 5

TU Delft 5 Chalmers TH 11 CityPorts Academy Rotterdam 13 Hochschule Ruhr-West 14 Innovation City Ruhr 15 Institute for Sustainability 16 Imperial College London 19 Johanneberg Science Park 20 Royal College of Art 21 Woonbron 22 Wuppertal Institute 23


SuslabNWE partnermeeting

SusLabNWE

SusLabNWE is a national and international infrastructure of living labs that enables innovation processes in which users and other actors actively participate in the devel-opment, testing, and diffusion processes, respectively of new products, services and system solutions. The innovation processes are examined using observational tech-niques. Prototypes are positioned in existing homes as well as in living laboratories for short-term studies on sustainable living. SusLabNWE provides a context in which users can interact with and report on sustainable innovations, while sharing practices with other households and stakeholders.

Central to the project is the development of user centered design research method-ologies and measures for in situ studies which can provide insights into the usability and adoption of sustainable innovations for industry, public and academia sectors. SusLabNWE aims to contribute to global and universally applicable patterns of production and consumption in compliance with mea-

-cy. On-going work is led by the application and development of criteria for sustainability from an integral perspective.

The SusLabNWE project runs until April 2015 and counts 11 partners in 4 coun-tries: Heijplaat (the Netherlands), Nord Rhein Westfalen (Germany), London (Great Britain) and Göteborg (Sweden).

For more information please contact: Prof. Dr. MSc. David V. Keyson

Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering


The goal of the methodology workshop is to create the sensing platforms for mea-suring human activity in relation to energy and resource consumption in combination with accompanying qualitative methodol-ogies. The methods will be adapted accord-ing to the context. For example an interac-tive questionnaire based on the experience sampling method may appear as a display or on a portable device for insight stud-ies, while new products or services being tested in the research house or in existing

have an interactive display embedded into the product or service itself.

The SusLabNWE methods will be developed

have an optimal set of tools in a toolbox like setup which will enable them to rapidly set-

and collaborate closely with stakeholders. Workshops among the SusLabNWE partners are currently being conducted towards pool-ing knowledge and building the toolbox.

Methodology

SusLabNWE provides a unique opportunity to develop methods for studying how sustainable innovations fit into the daily life of users. Based on the three tear model depicted here, methods are being developed for: (a) early insight studies, (b) living lab studies in the research houses involving new products and services, and (c) in existing homes which can be equipped with the sustainable living innovations.

Snapshshot from the SusLabNWE

methodology workshop at Delft,

the Netherlands


Concept House Prototype 1

Concept House Prototype is a partnership

and several companies from the build-ing industry together with the Interreg SusLabNWE project which provides investments in the lab infrastructure. A research house has been developed for the Dutch housing market in response to energy, environmental and engineering issues. The house has been constructed in anticipation of the legal requirement for an EPC (building-related energy consump-tion) of 0.0 in 2020. The research house was formally opened on October 5th 2012.

Open Days, an opening will be held with local residents of Heijplaat, Rotterdam.

Integrated approach

An integrated research approach was chosen in the design process, given the aim of developing long-term practical and result-oriented solutions. Specialized knowledge from academia and from building industry was combined to solve the complex design issues related to stacked housing. The results of the research will be used to answer the question in what manner energy-neutral (EPC = 0.0) or energy-supplying stacked housing can be realized by 2020. The aim of the Concept House prototype is to be energy-positive or close to energy neutral. The exact performance of the house, with living occupants and without occupants will be measured in the coming years.

SusLabNWE NL is investing in the Concept House research infrastructure, includ-ing smart activity sensing, a mobile energy management system (Prof. Keyson, Dr. Mahmud, Mr. Luxon and Mr. de Hoogh), the capability to store and retrieve energy from an electric vehicle (As. Prof. Silvester, coordinator of Mobility Program, Indus-trial Design Engineering, TU Delft) and indoor climate measurement (Prof. Visscher, Housing Quality and Process Innovation). The energy performance coeficient (EPC) of the house will be measured by Prof. van Timmeren, faculty of Architecture. Addi-tionally, many student projects in the area of water, energy and resource conserva-tion will be piloted tested in the Concept House Prototype and will involve insight studies with local residents of Heijplaat, Rotterdam, where the research house is situated.

Plug&Play Energy supplying Appartments

Project Partners, Tasks and Contributions

TU Delft

‘Plug & Play’ stands for a very easy way of as-

sembling (and dissembling) of installations and

components. In the Concept House Prototype

building system this means a rapid assembly

and connection of construction and installation

components and a flexible layout of the house.

The Concept House Prototype project focuses

mainly on stacked housing, because this is

technically the most challenging, little R&D is

undertaken on this typology and because a

large market demand is expected by 2020.

From energy efficient and energy neutral to the

ultimate goal of energy supplying homes. The

results of the Research Concept House show

precisely that development, in which the prac-

tical applicability will be testes in an inhabited

prototype.


[1] sanitairy cel

shower heat exchanger

no-mix toilets

installations

[2] installation cluster

meter box

controlsystem

heatpump and boiler

demand-controlled ventilation using CO2 sensors

washing(hotfill) and drying machine

intelligent and user-friendly control system

[3] prefabricated service shaft

water-, energy- and data supply

triple sewer system

ventilation shaft

PV connection to the grid

ground-loop of heat pump

[4] plug & play doorkoppelen

plug & play connections

electricity and data

floor heating and cooling

kitchen

[5] slim wooden floor elements

floor gutters

floor heating and cooling

screed

ceiling

high acoustical performance (ca. + 5dB)

[6] slim separation walls

The chosen materials can be reused or

concentration of kitchen, bathroomand installations and smart connections between inner walls and structural walls

in layout of the apartments.

With a low construction height and a span -

utes to the maximization of construction speed. The wooden structure gives a posi-tive contribution to the carbon footprint of the building system.

Technical development

The Concept House building system con-sists of a library of generic components which are fully prefabricated and, on site,

House building system anticipates at dif-ferent apartment sizes, typologies and stacking variants.

The sanitary cell is the central compo-nent in the building system. This element contains all sanitary facilities and connec-tions for the kitchen and white goods. But also the (vertical and horizontal) tubing is integrated in the sanitary cell and can be

the technical installations of the apart-

are ready to use.


Prefabricated components

As a model plug and play stackable apart-ment unit, the entire structure of Concept House is prefabricated, yet two-dimen-

cell, being the bathroom and WCs are preferred with full installation and posi-tioned in the center of the house to enable layouts. The house has a triple -sewage systems (gray, yellow & black). The house is ready for biogas production.

The entire house was put together in one day! In terms of sustainable living, the house is built as wooden structure; the wall insulation is made of recycled newspaper

sandwich panels. The roof is made of fully recycled Expanded Poly Styrene (EPS) and

cool the roof and collect heat to regenerate in the ground. On top of this layer is bitu-minous roof paper followed by complete layer photo- voltaic made of multi layered amorphous silicon solar cells.

The house is heated via a heat pump and

hole in the ground enables heat exchange based on 12C ground water temperatures.

26C, with a room temperature of 21C.

A facility for charging an electric car is being developed as well as solar energy storage and advanced mobile user inter-face with cloud computing to enable home energy management and remote and control of appliances.

A low-hot water method of bathing called Splash will be tested in November, where-by 55 liters are used for washing instead of

CONCEPT H USEP R O T O T Y P E


The house is fully furnished with C2C furniture and dishes. LED lighting with presence detectors is used to light the house. The carpet is C2C recycled nylon. The carpet backing is made of recycled

Ongoing projects

energy consumption. The sustainability of a house is considerably determined by the behaviour of its residents. To gather more information on this topic, research will be done with residents which inhabit the living labs for a considerable period of time. This will result in the development of sustainable innovations, research methods and –tools, applicable in existing houses, and in an improved product development. An example of such an innovation which will be tested is Splash. A shower unit that provides a new, sustainable way of bath-ing, and also provides a bigger control of water consumption.

OTB Research Institute for the Build Environ-ment

for the Built EnvironmentMissionOTB Research Institute for the Built Envi-ronment seeks to make a visible contribu-tion to society by helping to solve social

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impact and social relevance.Fundamental and applied research on a national and international scale are com-bined: we translate theoretical insights into solutions for societal and policy issues

The research areas of OTB Research Insti-tute are centred around various aspects of the built environment such housing, urban renewal, urban and regional development, sustainable building and building policy, land policy, geo-information resources and GIS technology.

Snapshots from the construction

of the Concept House prototype

Splash Shower Concept


Areas of Expertise: OTBThe area of Expertise of OTB in the Su-sLabNWE project:

Sensing data collection and modellingThe OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment in collaboration with some of the other partners will develop a strategy and methodology for measuring parameters that are relevant to explain the relation between characteristics of houses, installations and of households and the behaviour of the occupants and the impact of this on the actual energy use and the indoor climate. Toolkits with sensors and a system for data transfer and data analy-ses will be developed and tested. Some pilot studies will be carried out with these toolkits.

Want to answer the following questions:

actual energy use in dwellings?

dwelling characteristics, type of instal-lation, behaviour of the occupant ant the energy use an indoor air quality?

groups in relation to actual energy use?

relate to results from surveys?

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probability of energy use instead of one value?

models be improved in order to match bet-ter actual energy use?

types prefer? What is the relation between desired comfort and provided comfort? How does this relate to expected energy use and actual energy use?

The PhD project of Tasos Ioannou: Param-eters of actual energy use in dwellings, will be focussed on these questions. Besides the SuslabNWE project, the measurements will be extended in the national project MONICAIR, which is part of the Dutch

There is also a strong link to the PhD project of Dasa Majcen: Predicted versus actual energy use in dwellings, in which statistical data of the whole Dutch hous-ing stock is used to develop a better insight in the relation between housing quality, occupancy and energy use. This project is worked out in collaboration with a large group of Dutch Housing Associations.

photographs of the realised

Concept House prototype

by: Marijke Volkers


Sponsors

Icopal, Itho Daalderop, Faay, Niko, Raab-

Woonplaats, CBB Arnhem, Danfoss, Lodewijk van Es, Living Lab, MdR advies, Hans Moor Architecten, Thijs Asselbergs

-eniers, Albeda College, Bruynzeel, CRH, Drooghmans, Dura Vermeer, ForboEurocol, Fermacell, Global Solar, Green-wave systems, Interface, Justimax, King-

Mastervolt, Mosa, Koen Mulder, Novatio, Octatube, Oranje, Philips, Prokom, Relius - Systexx, Rijgersberg, Rockwool, Roval, Schilder̂ sCOOL, De Vries kozijnenInterior: People for Planet, Auping,

Herman Miller, Ngispen, Steigerhoutstunter


Contrubution to the project

In WP1, Chalmers will be working closely with Johanneberg Science Park, Mölndal city and Riksbyggen to create a strong partnership in Sweden that supports future living in homes. This will be sup-ported by the funding research program Homes for tomorrow.

In WP2, the Göteborg consortium will focus on developing insight testing capac-ity, and at setting up facilities for studies in laboratory environments. The phase 1 insight testing will take place in homes created in the new Papyrus redevelop-ment project (cooperation with Mölndal City). The focus on phase 1 and 2 activities is due to the Papyrus area currently being exploited; the ideas will be tested during the construction phase.

In WP4, longitudinal studies of customer comfort will be carried out in the “positive footprint housing” created by Riksbyg-gen and in cooperation with the partners Johanneberg Science Park and Chalmers.

HSB Living Lab

HSB Living Lab: A house for student ac-commodation which is situated on the Chalmers campus in Gothenburg, Sweden. The house will be erected in October 2012 and becomes a platform in the Interreg Suslab project.

Mission statement: HSB Living Lab will provide a unique environment incorporat-ing living experience and experimental laboratory, to promote innovations and use practice that enable student sustain-ability.

-able living: The facility has a ground space

possible to change the layout over the ten

Working group: The facility is a coopera-tion between key persons working for HSB (a cooperative housing association with 500 000 members) and a management team with representatives from Chalmers, Interactive Institute and NASA. The facil-ity is academically driven by members of the Chalmers research program homes for tomorrow and this includes Phd students through professors in the areas of archi-tecture, water engineering, building phys-ics and materials, construction engineer-ing, acoustics and psychology.Further researchers from industrial design have recently joined the team.

Chalmers through the homes for tomorrow research program offers a broad research profile in building physics, water engineering, construction engineering, architecture, acoustics and psychology for exploitation, and retrofit and refurbish-ment of new homes. Chalmers works with Mölndal City, which has been involved in previous Interreg projects and has strong ties to new development through active involvement in Chalmers’ Mistra Urban Futures program. Chalmer’s programme’s user-centred approach to sustainability in the built environment includes real-life reference testing, inspirational concept homes and full-scale prototyping, meeting SusLabNWE’s exact aims. Chalmers multidisciplinary team (engineers, designers, sociologists and psychologist) set it apart. It provides a critical link between all disciplines necessary to create SusLabNWE’s infrastructure. It has highly relevant experiences providing decisive contributions to the testing infrastructure and methodology creation.

Chalmers TH


Value propositions: The following list of value propositions for HSB Living Lab

stakeholders are being attracted to join the facility

tainability

Chalmers and beyond

moveability

about by challenging the project with user-centred research

resources on a local and global level

able habitats in space exploration

aging, food and other industries

protypes

the Suslab facilities and other planned facilities in Kisumu (Kenya) and Houston

Research phases: Phase 1- Early Insights

into two homes – their use and transfor-

out of the home. Phase II-Living Lab studies in the research houses: Prototype testing

Living Lab is to visualise the use of energy, water and consumables in the house in

-tion in the Chalmers metabolism database.

which we have tested in two households.

-iour and is termed persuasive sustainabil-ity. However, the overriding goal of HSB Living Lab is that the facility will be used to test innovations that enable students towards a sustainable behaviour – a least in terms of resources, but also in terms of social sustainability.

Research projects: Research projects are being planned with sponsors over a 2, 5 and 10 year perspective. The following is a list of those ideas and innovations that will

use less than 20 litres per shower

enable students to reduce the amount of edible food wasted by 50%

faced with a choice between resources (water, energy, consumables) to a level that is decided before the experiment

and café (social sustainability) are inte-grated with resource saving washing room appliances

HSB living lab: the research house


lists, bar codes, weightsElectrical energy (not space heating): 10s interval data collection on each circuit breaker


CPA contributes in the following ways

regional innovation community, and is involved in WP2 implementation of the

CityPorts Academy Rotterdam facili-tates the realisation of the SusLab in the Concept House Village, Rotterdam Con-nect the project to local authorities and innovation networks like the industrial CleanTechDelta initiative. CPA exploits the RDM campus where the Dutch SusLab-NWE node will be located. It has strong ties to the City and Port of Rotterdam, Higher Education Institutes in the region, as well as regional industry. Its involvement is critical because of its leading role in Su-

-diary role linking SusLabNWE activities with regional stakeholders. It coordinates the involvement and support of project stakeholders working on the project, through dissemination and PR activities and regular direct contact with them. Since this intermediary role does not include hands-on work in development activities, the allocated budget is very limited.

CityPorts Academy Rotterdam is a foundation in which the City of Rotterdam and Port of Rotterdam are working on large-scale redevelopment of the city’s port area to redevelop the cities’ housing stock from mainly low-quality social housing to neighbourhoods attractive for middle incomes. The foundation includes a large group of public authorities, research & education organizations and businesses, including Hogeschool Rotterdam, Arcadis, Public Works Rotterdam, Woonbron Housing Cooperation, Delft University of Technology. CPA initializes, stimulates, coordinates and facilitates research and development projects including Concept House Village where innovative, green, attractive living concepts are demonstrated for future large scale roll-out.

CityPorts Academy Rotterdam


HRW has close co-operation with Fraunhofer inHaus innovation center, the cooperation platform of the Fraunhofer-

application solutions in residential and commercial properties, sharing labora-tories. Prof. Grinewitschus is professor for building services at HRW and head of InHaus.

InHaus serves as the interface to the market. HRW contributes knowledge on

energy-related behaviour, and build-ing services and automation to the WPs. Involved professors contribute long-term experience in international, collaborative projects. Contribution to SusLabNWE includes:

WP1: InHaus experience with user-cen-tered testingWP2: InHaus experiences with design and operation of a static Living Lab

exploitationSubpartners:

pilots - system solutions for heat distri-bution in building services (attend de-sign workshops, evaluation workshops;

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-ing pilots - focus in gas, water and electric installations – installation of prototype

Based in the cities of Bottrop and Mülheim an der Ruhr, HRW is an applied sciences university run by North Rhine-Westphalia committed to high-quality teaching and research. Since September 2009, HRW has offered degree programmes in Mechani-cal Engineering and Industrial Engineering & Business–Energy Systems. Since Octo-ber 2009, the Institute for Energy Systems and Energy Business has been at HRW. It is involved in:a) Concept for a Zero Emission Campusb) Involvement in several other InnovationCity projects in Bottropc) Research activities within the European Intelligent Energy Europe programme (co-ordination of the project “ChangeBest” on energy efficiency services

Hochschule Ruhr-West


In SusLab, Innovation City Ruhr contrib-utes in the following ways:

stakeholders (public and private) for ex-ploitation of the infrastructure.In WP4, Facilitating the collaboration be-

projects.

InnovationCity Management GmbH, established in 2010, is the executive entity of the Ruhr area’s main push to innovate urban environments “Innovation City Ruhr” in which 20 municipal agencies and 50 research and private entities participate. It aims to demonstrate that the CO2 emissions of existing urban structures can be halved over a period of ten years, while improving the quality of life, adapting the city to the climate change, encouraging the Community. ICR initiates single R&D projects with innovative technologies and processes and the implementation of known technology in the stock of existing buildings. Main focus of demonstration projects is the city of Bottrop, winner of the regional “Modellstad” competiton. Bot-trop actively involves over 20.000 inhabitants in renewal of its urban center, where innovative and practical solutions for sustainable living will be realised.

Innovation City Ruhr


The Institute, centre of excellence for independent sustainability research, dem-onstration and knowledge dissemination was created to accelerate the delivery of economically, environmentally and socially sustainable cities and communities. We have extensive private, public and academic sector networks for close-to-market, collaborative research and demonstration projects. The aim of the Institute is to facilitate large-scale Total Community Retrofit demonstrators, building on three programmes: resource efficient buildings; sustainable utilities infrastructure; trans-port and logistics. The Institute has been leading or involved in EU and UK projects: INTERREG IVB, iTransfer, LoPinoD, Weastflows, Cradle-to-Cradle; UK ERDF: FLASH project taking the learning from national Technology Strategy Board “Retrofit for the Future” and “Building Performance Evaluation” programmes and disseminating to 1250 SMEs; EIT Climate – Knowledge and Innovation Communities; FP7: GE20, TURaS. The Institute will develop and manage the prototyping facility, facilitate op-portunities for laboratory prototyping and demonstrator phase and act as coordi-nator for the London project. Namely, we will contribute with its specific location-based projects:-Laboratory development and testing of designs - a new low carbon facility, at the London Sustainable Industries Park, used for proto-typing and testing design solu-tions, prior to testing in new and existing homes;-Demonstrator phase in a)new and b)existing homes:a)Barking Riverside development – trials during the first phase of 300 homes influ-encing future development of around 10,000 homes;b)East London - through the Smart Grids: Low Carbon London Project with EDF, UK Power Networks, Imperial College, Logica, Siemens, and GLA.The Institute will also enable close collaboration with the London Co-location Cen-tre of the CLIMATE KIC to demonstrate practical applicability of the new analytical tools developed in the project.

Institute for Sustainability


Contribution to the SusLab project: In WP1, IC will contribute to methodology development for analysis of user behav-iour. In WP2, work will draw on data col-lected through both laboratory testing at the London Sustainable Industries Park and real-world demonstrations to be un-dertaken in Barking Riverside and East

Systems project, the Low Carbon London Project, in which Imperial is working joint-

-mens, GLA and the Institute for Sustain-ability and the EPSRC funded Digital City Exchange project.

Imperial College London is regularly ranked in the top 10 research universities in the world. A key feature of Imperial’s research approach is a focus on inter-disciplin-ary activity, which is undertaken through the College’s Institutes and Centres. The Centre for Transport Studies will take the lead in developing new analytical tools to characterise the impact of new low carbon building design and smart appliances on in home and out of home activity and consumption behaviour. CTS is an inter-national centre of excellence in several areas including the analysis and modelling of activity, with an especially strong track record in the areas of pervasive sensing, intelligent network management and control, and user behaviour. Imperial hosts the UK co-location centre of the Climate-KIC and will work closely with its UK and European partners to foster synergies between this project and the activities of the Climate-KIC.

Imperial College London


-ness for infrastructure exploitation. These are SMEs from its own business park and Swedish SMEs and large companies part of its network. It has close cooperation with Riksbyggen, a Swedish company owned by building unions, and local hous-ing associations. It builds about 10% of new dwellings and houses 500,000 people, assuring high impact of SusLabNWE de-veloped innovations through roll-out in its dwellings.

It also serves as a network connecting the project and developments at the Swedish node with regional business and public au-thorities. It brings in-depth experience in

on sustainability in the built environment and on regional economic development. Its role focuses on linking the project to re-gional stakeholders: principally local pub-lic authorities, industry, and Riksbyggen, and on sharing relevant experiences. This intermediary role requires a limited bud-get indicated in the application form.

The Science Park was established in 2009 by the Chalmers University and the City of Gothenburg to create better conditions for regional sustainable growth. It offers access to research, education and hi-tech infrastructures, participation in innova-tive projects, partnership and networks for company development. We strive to have 3-5000 people from industry active in the area within 5-7 years. The Science Park will primarily support development of activities within the disciplines of Urban Development, Environment, Energy, Materials and Nanoscience. The activi-ties are conducted in five parts: education & training, projects, research, growth (SME) and international collaboration. The Park consists of more than 80 high-tech companies employing over 700 people and two incubators. It will promote the exchange of ideas and collaboration between stakeholders and establish coopera-tion between society, industry and university.

Johanneberg Science Park


RCA mission statement: The Helen Ham-lyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art undertakes design research and projects with industry that will contrib-

largest and longest-running centre for de-sign research at the Royal College of Art,

-ing postgraduate art and design schools.

We collaborate with business, academic, government and voluntary sector partners. We engage with four design communi-ties: students, new graduates, professional designers and academics. We develop in-novative and empathic research methods – and we exchange knowledge via educa-tion, events, publications and industrial collaboration.

Sustain RCA is a new multidisciplinary department, formally established in April 2011, with a mission to inspire encourage and support sustainability thinking across the RCA. Sustain carries out design-led teaching and research about social and en-vironmental issues; it organises a series of

-rum for honest discussions about the com-plexities and opportunities of sustainable practice in art and design; and it showcases excellence in student sustainability think-ing through the annual Sustain Show & Award. Sustain RCA already organises many innovative initiatives and has many more in the pipeline to inspire new think-ing around sustainability across the RCA.

in similar workshops on deep customer in-sights performed at Design London.

Our contribution as a partner: The Royal College of Art, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has created and developed novel methods of working with people and us-ing design as a process for strategic think-ing and people-centred problem solving. These user-centred methods will be pack-aged and shared with project partners, allowing all organisations to use the ap-

design ethnography will also be contrib-uted.

Activities by Design London will princi--

opment of the infrastructure and meth-odologies in WP2, Design London will bring in in-depth expertise in user-centred testing and product development; in addi-

methodologies can be applied in co-cre-

London will bring in expertise on commer-cialisation of innovative technologies. As part of the implementation of pilot pro-gramme in WP4, it will help develop cre-ativity workshops, based on experience

Our complementary strength: As we are based at the Royal College of Art, we bring the value of a design approach to a multi-disciplinary group. Design is not just about aesthetics, but about creative thinking, problem-solving and idea creation. De-sign can help by visualising processes, out-comes and ideas, helping to creatively aid decision making.

The Royal College of Art is a centre of excellence in art, design education and research and world’s only wholly postgraduate institution of art & design. Its partnership with Imperial College led to the formation of Design London in 2007. It brings together resources expert in creative design from the RCA, technological innovation from Imperial and commercial expertise from Imperial’s business school to deliver programmes for industry, postgraduate students and the new ventures it supports, both nationally and internationally. Its programmes have been delivered to over 550 small businesses and large corporations including Arup, Vodafone and IBM. Its services to SMEs include the provision of executive education in the field of Financing, Commercialising and Managing Design Led Innovation, the provision of 3D virtual immersive environments for firms to design, model and simulate prod-ucts, complex systems and services.

Royal College of Art


Ai Hasegawa [Design Interac-tions] WINNER, MOVING MINDS CATEGORYI Wanna Deliver a Shark (Fig. a)This project approaches the prob-lem of human reproduction in an age of over-population and envi-ronmental crisis. With potential food shortages and a population of nearly nine billion people, would a woman desperate to conceive con-sider incubating and giving birth to an endangered species such as a shark, tuna or dolphin? This project introduces a new argu-ment for giving birth to our food to satisfy our demands for nutrition and childbirth and discusses some of the technical details of how that might be possible.

Aran Dasan, Jonathan Fraser, Jacky Chung, Julene Aguirre [IDE]

-ETY CATEGORYEnto Insects (Fig. b) are more space

-tional livestock and are happy to eat the crops we don't want. They could represent a healthy, tasty, and sustainable alternative

solution to accelerating global food demand. But how can we overcome the cultural barriers and make them an everyday reality? Ento is a roadmap for introducing in-sects to the western diet, through a sequence of products, services and eating experiences that will steadily build acceptance. By 2020, fresh grasshoppers may be a regular sight in your local Tesco.

Alei Verspoor [Textiles] WINNER, -

RYPACK! (Fig. c) is a set of elegant and modular bags that are de-signed for disassembly, using lo-tech rapid construction tech-niques: folding and simple weav-ing. Flexible and practical, they can be formed into bags, but also into seating and storage. Each of the Pack! components is made of one material and has one function, which makes it easy to replace and recycle components when they are worn out or when you want to switch function. Pack! is pattern. With the construction of the packs; the assembling of

components, three-dimensional check patterns are created, that continue to evolve over time, as components are replaced or added

Hal Watts [Innovation, Design, Engineering] WINNER, VISION-ARY PROCESS CATEGORYEsource (Fig. d) Electrical and elec-tronic waste (WEEE) is the fastest growing waste stream worldwide.

its WEEE, largely to Africa where cables are burnt to recover the copper, with devastating health and environmental consequences. Esource is a bicycle-powered cable recycling system for small-scale recyclers in developing countries, designed to be manufactured, sold and maintained by local work-

sold for 20% more than burnt, providing operators with a better income and healthier working conditions

Some of the student projects conducted at the RCA

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Contribution to the SusLab project:

-In WP1, Woonbron will participate in de-veloping user observation and engagement methods-In WP2, Woonbron will provide the building to be converted in Rotterdam Living Lab, and it sets up a volunteer pro-

-curing long-term funding through explor-ing possibilities for long-term lease of the building.

Woonbron is a top-5 social housing groups in the Netherlands. Its working area is the southern part of the Randstad (the metropolitan region of the Netherlands). Woonbron serves about 50,000 households. Woonbron is the owner of the build-ings in the Heijplaat area, and the Concept House Village where the Living Labo-ratory is located. Woonbron is also active in European projects such as Interreg’s IMAGE project, FP7’s BEEM-UP and the SESAC project that is part of the first groups of cities to take part in the CONCERTO Program. Woonbron is particularly active in tenant participation, and has many years of experience with generating user feed-back in innovative or experimental technologies.

Woonbron


-ing pilots:

smart metering and technical infrastruc-ture (design and evaluation workshops;

-tion and installation)

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selection, location management; evalua-

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evaluation)

The Wuppertal Institute, founded in 1991, is committed to application-oriented sustainability research based on interdisciplinary research, employing 170+ staff from natural and environmental sciences, geography, systems sciences, engineer-ing, planning, law, economics, political and social science fields. With the UN Envi-ronmental Programme, it founded the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Con-sumption and Production. The institute was partner of FP7 project Living Lab. The institute contributes knowledge on user interaction to the insight research phase, life cycle thinking to the prototyping and alpha-testing phase, and development of resource efficient and sustainable product-service systems in general. Its experi-ences in transnational research cooperation add to transnational coordination of SusLabNWE esp. to WP1. Its many activities involving all stakeholders of a value chain and the coordination of public-private projects help it make strong contribu-tion to WP2. Its researchers contribute to the development of a harmonized sus-tainability assessment and evaluation tool indicating the sustainability progress of solutions as well as adapted scenarios combining new resource efficient technol-ogy approaches and social interaction structures (WP3). It acts as moderator/inte-grator between different disciplines, partners and secondary researchers (e.g. WP4).

Wuppertal Institute

Contact

Prof. Dr. MSc. David V. KeysonProgram Leader Sustainable Work / LivingFaculty of Industrial DesignDelft University of TechnologyThe NetherlandsOffice tel.: +31 (0)15-278-3374 /3029Mobile tel.: +31 (0)6-55-900-465

The 11 SusLabNWE partners:

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Project website: www.suslabnwe.eu

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