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SusLabNWE
Sustainable Labs North West Europe

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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.
Rotterdam
London
Göteborg
TU Delft Woonbron
CityPorts Academy
Institute for Sustainability
Johanneberg Science Park
Chalmers TH
Imperial College London
Nordrhein-Westfalen
InnovationCity 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

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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
whichcanprovideinsightsintotheusability
and adoption of sustainable innovations
for industry, public and academia sectors.
SusLabNWEaimstocontributetoglobaland
universallyapplicablepatternsofproduction
and consumption in compliancewith mea-
-
cy. On-goingwork is led by the application
anddevelopmentofcriteriaforsustainability
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

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The goal of the methodologyworkshop 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 methodswill 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.
TheSusLabNWEmethodswillbedeveloped
have an optimal set of tools in a toolbox like
setupwhichwillenablethemtorapidlyset-
and collaborate closely with stakeholders.
WorkshopsamongtheSusLabNWEpartners
arecurrentlybeingconductedtowardspool-
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

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Concept House Prototype 1
Concept House Prototype is a partnership
and several companies from the build-
ing industry togetherwith the Interreg
SusLabNWE projectwhich 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 openingwill be heldwith
local residents of Heijplaat, Rotterdam.
Integrated approach
Anintegratedresearchapproachwaschosen
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
issuesrelatedtostackedhousing.Theresults
of the researchwill be used to answer the
question inwhat 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
livingoccupantsandwithoutoccupantswill
be measured in the comingyears.
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.

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[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, bathroom
and installations and smart connections
between innerwalls and structuralwalls
in layout of the apartments.
With a low construction height and a span
-
utes to the maximization of construction
speed. Thewooden 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
stackingvariants.
The sanitary cell is the central compo-
nent in the building system. This element
contains all sanitary facilities and connec-
tions for the kitchen andwhite 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.

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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
preferredwith 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 housewas put together in one
day! In terms of sustainable living, the
house is built aswooden structure; thewall
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 heatedvia a heat pump and
hole in the ground enables heat exchange
based on 12C groundwater temperatures.
26C,with a room temperature of 21C.
A facility for charging an electric car is
being developed aswell as solar energy
storage and advanced mobile user inter-
facewith cloud computing to enable home
energy management and remote and
control of appliances.
A low-hotwater method of bathing called
Splashwill be tested in November,where-
by 55 liters are used forwashing instead of
CONCEPT H USE
P R O T O T Y P E

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The house is fully furnishedwith C2C
furniture and dishes. LED lightingwith
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 donewith residentswhich inhabit
the living labs for a considerable period of
time. Thiswill 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 innovationwhich
will be tested is Splash. A shower unit that
provides a new, sustainableway of bath-
ing, and also provides a bigger control of
water consumption.
OTB Research Institute for the Build Environ-
ment
for the Built Environment
Mission
OTB Research Institute for the Built Envi-
ronment seeks to make avisible contribu-
tion to society by helping to solve social
-
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 aroundvarious 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

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Areas of Expertise: OTB
The area of Expertise of OTB in the Su-
sLabNWE project:
Sensing data collection and modelling
The OTB Research Institute for the Built
Environment in collaborationwith some
of the other partnerswill 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. Toolkitswith sensors and
a system for data transfer and data analy-
seswill be developed and tested. Some
pilot studieswill be carried outwith 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?
-
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: Predictedversus
actual energy use in dwellings, inwhich
statistical data of thewhole 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 collaborationwith a large
group of Dutch Housing Associations.
photographs of the realised
Concept House prototype
by: Marijke Volkers

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Sponsors
Icopal, Itho Daalderop, Faay, Niko, Raab-
Woonplaats, CBB Arnhem, Danfoss,
Lodewijkvan Es, Living Lab, MdR advies,
Hans Moor Architecten, Thijs Asselbergs
-
eniers, Albeda College, Bruynzeel, CRH,
Drooghmans, Dura Vermeer, Forbo
Eurocol, Fermacell, Global Solar, Green-
wave systems, Interface, Justimax, King-
Mastervolt, Mosa, Koen Mulder, Novatio,
Octatube, Oranje, Philips, Prokom, Relius
-Systexx, Rijgersberg, Rockwool, Roval,
Schilder^sCOOL, De Vries kozijnen
Interior: People for Planet, Auping,
Herman Miller, Ngispen,
Steigerhoutstunter

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Contrubution to the project
In WP1, Chalmerswill beworking closely
with Johanneberg Science Park, Mölndal
city and Riksbyggen to create a strong
partnership in Sweden that supports
future living in homes. Thiswill be sup-
ported by the funding research program
Homes for tomorrow.
In WP2, the Göteborg consortiumwill
focus on developing insight testing capac-
ity, and at setting up facilities for studies
in laboratory environments. The phase
1 insight testingwill take place in homes
created in the new Papyrus redevelop-
ment project (cooperationwith Mölndal
City). The focus on phase 1 and 2 activities
is due to the Papyrus area currently being
exploited; the ideaswill be tested during
the construction phase.
In WP4, longitudinal studies of customer
comfortwill be carried out in the “positive
footprint housing” created by Riksbyg-
gen and in cooperationwith the partners
Johanneberg Science Park and Chalmers.
HSB Living Lab
HSB Living Lab: A house for student ac-
commodationwhich is situated on the
Chalmers campus in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The housewill be erected in October 2012
and becomes a platform in the Interreg
Suslab project.
Mission statement: HSB Living Labwill
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 personsworking for HSB
(a cooperative housing associationwith
500 000 members) and a management
teamwith 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.
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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 tovisualise the use of energy,
water and consumables in the house in
-
tion in the Chalmers metabolism database.
whichwe have tested in two households.
-
iour and is termed persuasive sustainabil-
ity. However, the overriding goal of HSB
Living Lab is that the facilitywill 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 plannedwith sponsors over a 2, 5
and 10year perspective. The following is a
list of those ideas and innovations thatwill
use less than 20 litres per shower
enable students to reduce the amount of
edible foodwasted by 50%
facedwith a choice between resources
(water, energy, consumables) to a level that
is decided before the experiment
and café (social sustainability) are inte-
gratedwith resource savingwashing room
appliances
HSB living lab: the research house

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

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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 campuswhere the Dutch SusLab-
NWE nodewill be located. It has strong ties
to the City and Port of Rotterdam, Higher
Education Institutes in the region, aswell
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
stakeholdersworking on the project,
through dissemination and PR activities
and regular direct contactwith them. Since
this intermediary role does not include
hands-onwork in development activities,
the allocated budget isvery 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.
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HRW has close co-operationwith
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 experiencewith user-cen-
tered testing
WP2: InHaus experienceswith design and
operation of a static Living Lab
exploitation
Subpartners:
pilots -system solutions for heat distri-
bution in building services (attend de-
signworkshops, evaluationworkshops;
-
-
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 Campus
b) Involvement in several other InnovationCity projects in Bottrop
c) Research activities within the European Intelligent Energy Europe programme
(co-ordination of the project“ChangeBest”on energy efficiency services
Hochschule Ruhr-West

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In SusLab, Innovation City Ruhr contrib-
utes in the followingways:
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.
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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.
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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, inwhich Imperial isworking 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.
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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
nodewith 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.
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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 andvoluntary 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 similarworkshops 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-
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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-
Londonwill 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-
ativityworkshops, 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 byvisualising 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.
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Ai Hasegawa [Design Interac-
tions] WINNER, MOVING MINDS
CATEGORY
I 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 CATEGORY
Ento Insects (Fig. b) are more space
-
tional livestock and are happy
to eat the cropswe don'twant.
They could represent a healthy,
tasty, and sustainable alternative
solution to accelerating global food
demand. But how canwe overcome
the cultural barriers and make
them an everyday reality? Ento is
a roadmap for introducing in-
sects to thewestern diet, through
a sequence of products, services
and eating experiences thatwill
steadily build acceptance. By
2020, fresh grasshoppers may be a
regular sight inyour local Tesco.
Alei Verspoor [Textiles] WINNER,
-
RY
PACK! (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 simpleweav-
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 componentswhen
they areworn out orwhenyou
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 CATEGORY
Esource (Fig. d) Electrical and elec-
tronicwaste (WEEE) is the fastest
growingwaste streamworldwide.
its WEEE, largely to Africawhere
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 localwork-
sold for 20% more than burnt,
providing operatorswith a better
income and healthierworking
conditions
Some of the student projects conducted at the RCA
Fig. a
Fig. b
Fig. c
Fig. d

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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.
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ing pilots:
smart metering and technical infrastruc-
ture (design and evaluationworkshops;
-
tion and installation)
-
selection, location management; evalua-
-
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

24. Contact
Prof. Dr. MSc. David V. Keyson
Program Leader Sustainable Work / Living
Faculty of Industrial Design
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
Office tel.: +31 (0)15-278-3374 /3029
Mobile tel.: +31 (0)6-55-900-465
The 11 SusLabNWE partners:
SusLabNWE is co-financed by:
Project website: www.suslabnwe.eu