Centre for Digital and Green Transformation in Cities and Communities

"SPIN-IN for Sustainability is a design sprint specifically created for companies of the lifestyle & design sector focusing on challenges revolving around the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals."

Lifestyle & Design Cluster

In the SPIN-IN for Sustainability, companies bring a sustainability challenge and welcome a dedicated, interdisciplinary team of international students and graduates that become part of their organisation for a fixed period, helping to solve the challenge and providing recommendations for the future.

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.

Aarhus University in collaboration with  Lifestyle & Design Cluster, 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.

The challenges have a grounding in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and run either for a shorter four days sprint or a longer four weeks period, primarily focusing on sustainability and currently exploring challenges around digitalisation and circularity in parallel in the past years.