About SPIN-IN for Sustainability

Stakeholders of the lifestyle and design industry, just like many others, are struggling to adopt and implement innovative, sustainable practices and often require expertise and guidance or simply just need a small push to start their sustainability journey or continue their already existing sustainability plan.

Lifestyle & Design Cluster in collaboration with four knowledge institutions, Aarhus University, Design School Kolding, Royal Danish Academy, and the University of Southern Denmark developed the SPIN-IN for Sustainability concept. It caters to the members of the lifestyle and design industry, who are willing to embark on a sustainability journey, with a focused challenge as a starting point, or want to further develop their sustainability agenda, with a dedicated challenge as their next step.

In the SPIN-IN for Sustainability, companies bring a well-formulated sustainability challenge and welcome a dedicated, interdisciplinary team of international students and graduates, that become part of their organisation for a fixed period to help solve the challenge and provide the company with recommendations for the future.The challenges have a grounding in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and run either for 4 days (short sprint, in person) or 4 weeks (long sprint, online).

The project has been running since 2019, having completed four successful years of sprints with 20+ Danish companies and 90+ Danish and international students, primarily focusing on sustainability and currently exploring challenges around digitalisation and circularity in parallel.

Challenges 2023

This year, you will have the chance to work with:

• Abena: abena.dk (long sprint in the autumn)
• Gabba: gabba-denim.com/en-dk (long sprint in the autumn)
• MidtVask: midtvask.dk (long sprint in the autumn)
• Revolution: revolution.co.com (long sprint in the autumn)
• Trasborg: trasborg.dk/en/ (long sprint in the autumn)
• Kruse Vask: kruse-vask.dk (long sprint in the autumn)
• Sika Footwear: sikafootwear.dk (long sprint in the autumn)

The company challenges will explore sustainability, digitalisation, product development and storytelling. Stay tuned for more companies to come and see how you can apply below under the “How to get involved?” button.

As a part os SPIN-IN for Sustainability  four students, Franziska Garms, Freja Hørberg, Albina Mrazova and Heidi Wittemann looked into the challenges of furniture platform Reevela. According to CEO in Reevela, Lee Chamberlain they came up with very usefull ideas. For further information: Marianne Ping Huang, Associate Professor & Project Coordinator, Aarhus University mph@cc.au.dk See more: https://ldcluster.com/portfolio-item/spin-in/

A SPIN-IN for Sustainability team of Marie Due, Luka Dedic, Aymeric Delécaut and Réka Jenei, helped jewellery maker Maria Black with ideas for “no packaging.” Digital Project Manager Sara-Marie Bo Stefansen was very impressed. For further information: Marianne Ping Huang, Associate Professor & Project Coordinator, Aarhus University mph@cc.au.dk See more: https://ldcluster.com/portfolio-item/spin-in/