Print Email Facebook Twitter SLEUTH: Sustainable lifestyles - educating universities towards happiness Part of: Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation: 14th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) conference and the 6th Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU) conference· list the conference papers Title SLEUTH: Sustainable lifestyles - educating universities towards happiness Author Escobar Tello, C. Bhamra, T. Date 2010-10-27 Abstract SLEUTH is an initiative born out of the need to bring universities towards more happy and sustainable lifestyles. It is the real life application of the resulting conceptual design from the main study of the "Design for Happiness" PhD research project. This aims to identify and propose the design characteristics which compose a product, service or system capable of contributing to our happiness hence promoting sustainable lifestyles as part of mainstream sustainable design. The paper presents the SLEUTH project; its building process, implementation and results. The building process describes six months work which developed a key team within the university that started out on a collaboration journey; they joined forces with the aim of developing and endorsing this initiative. It sets an example of the involvement required by an entire organization. The implementation process describes the actual trials of the SLEUTH project. Here, student involvement is crucial. SLEUTH has at its core the belief in collective action, and therefore it starts from the premise of giving ownership to its participants, allowing them to shape its course. This translates into making the students coresponsible for the success of the project. Finally, the data and experiences gathered during the project illustrate the results of such an initiative. These aim to contribute to finding and setting the path for universities to embed sustainability at their core; they begin to answer questions such as how to achieve a transition towards sustainable universities; how to implement, replicate, modify, initiatives such as SLEUTH in the longer term. Subject sustainabilitylifestyleshappinessuniversitiespro-activeness To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a8eeaa15-3b88-4d7e-85ef-396d20c19a84 Part of collection Conference proceedings Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Escobar Tello, C.; Bhamra, T. Files PDF 480_Escobar-Tello.pdf 9.08 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a8eeaa15-3b88-4d7e-85ef-396d20c19a84/datastream/OBJ/view