Week 158
Flying over Lake Eyre, northerly out of Adelaide.This week, the weeknote is really brought to you by Adelaide and Melbourne Design Lab, rather than Helsinki Design Lab. I've been in Australia all week,...
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Always with the latenote.OK, last week was busy. Bryan and I met with the City of Helsinki's Chief Information Officer Markku Raito RE Brickstarter. It was a good, engaged conversation; I'd met Markku...
View ArticleWeek 161
A week spent looking inwards and outwards. Lots of work with Sitra colleagues last week - across public affairs and communications; talking to the business development team; moving forward with our...
View ArticleWeek 164
OK, latenote for last week. The highlight was perhaps a great conversation with various representatives of Canada's Social Innovation Generation partnership (SIG), who were in the neighbourhood (well,...
View ArticleMoikka from Kalle
As Dan already mentioned in his previous post, I just recently started here at the Strategic Design Unit as an intern. Currently I'm studying marketing at the University of Helsinki's Viikki campus....
View ArticleWeek 165
Hello, it's me again, and so predictably this is a few days late. Before I run through last week's events, I thought I'd share this. Bryan tweeted a Dezeen article about the new Shard tower in...
View ArticleSitra Coffee Lab
What follows next is a pro barista tip courtesy of Strategic Design Unit. If you want to gather people somewhere, make them stay there longer and boost their creativity - serve them really good, well...
View ArticleWeeks 174-177
This took longer than it should have. We've been back from the summer holidays for a solid week now, but as you can see there is some lag getting back into the habit of writing.Last time I was just...
View ArticleWeek 179
In all honesty, writing this weeknote is taking some effort on my behalf. My brain feels sintered to the details of our various projects and stepping back to take stock—let alone reflect upon—the lot...
View ArticleThe Pivot
Last week we finally went live with Open Kitchen. I'll let Antto explain it briefly and if you want more detail you should check the site; this post will focus more on how we ended up with Open Kitchen...
View ArticleWeek 185
I'm procrastinating. Sitting next to me is a pile of paper covered in red scribbles. Those scribbles need to get into my computer and fight with some pixels. What comes out the other end will be a...
View ArticleWeeks 188-189
Gray. Dark. From the Sitra tower one sees a vista of offices, homes, and shops glowing warmly beneath a thick cloud cover. The idle booms of a coal ship docked not too far away shine orange under...
View ArticleWeeks 220-221
With thetripbehind us and the book to press, our focus is entirely on HDL 2013, which kicks off in T-Minus 12 days.This means our life is a series of checklists, one of Marco's favorite...
View ArticleBook description
A book about street food in HelsinkiWhile we were scoping Open Kitchen, we wrote a book about casual and street food in Helsinki. It unpacks what's working and what isn't in Helsinki, and sketches out...
View ArticleThings to do in Helsinki
We have about 200 people joining us for HDL 2013 next Monday and a good portion of them are coming from outside Finland. In case you're not familiar with the city, here are some suggestions for things...
View ArticleHybrid Forums for urban controversies: the Ten Commandments
Editors' note: In writing Legible Practises we told the stories of six teams working towards systemic change in their communities, organizations, and institutions. In the book you will find our...
View ArticleAnnouncing Legible Practises
On Monday we launched our latest (and last) book, Legible Practises. This post shares the thinking behind the book, but if you just want to get your hands on it you can download the full PDF or order a...
View ArticleHow did HDL choose projects?
This might be the most common question we've received lately, so as we prepare to close out HDL and this blog we want to share some thoughts on the subject. Below I dip into the weeds a bit with some...
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Helsinki Street EatsGet your copy hereBryan Boyer and Dan Hill of Sitra discuss the history and current state of casual food in Finland, and look at how this may be inflected to improve environmental,...
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