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Week 168-169

And another two-for-one, which illustrates a) that we're busy, which is good, and b) that for many of us, holidays are approaching rapidly, like a broad sweep of clear blue sky appearing on the...
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Posted by Dan Hill
June 20th, 2012

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Weeks 166-167

When a weeknote stretches to two weeks, we're flat out. This is a two-week-note. Marco's in Chicago with the mayor, Dan's in Milan giving a lecture at the Politecnico, and Justin's about to...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
June 1st, 2012

Sitra 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...
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Posted by Kalle Freese
May 27th, 2012

Week 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...
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Posted by Dan Hill
May 23rd, 2012

Moikka 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....
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Posted by Kalle Freese
May 23rd, 2012

Week 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...
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Posted by Dan Hill
May 15th, 2012

Week 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...
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Posted by Dan Hill
April 19th, 2012

Week 160

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...
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Posted by Dan Hill
April 17th, 2012

Week 159

Logistics were on the docket this week. Amongst other things, we've been finalizing some hirings that have been in the pipeline for a long while and laying down a bit of structure for the three month...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
April 10th, 2012

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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...
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Posted by Dan Hill
April 3rd, 2012

brickstarter Food Travels

Week 157

Week 157, and a touch of 158 if we're being honest, was mostly about getting things out the door. Almost by coincidence, we finally launched new websites for the Design Exchange Programme and...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 27th, 2012

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Helsinki Street Eats (and hacking Lulu)

This post is part Low2No project update and part design how-to delving into simple customization of the Print On Demand books as a format. First, the update. Low2No is about creating pathways...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 21st, 2012

Food How-to

Week 156

That pile of snow from last week? Still there. And not only that, it's snowing as I type, so the thing is growing. Dan remarked the other day that during this time of year it feels like everyone is...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 19th, 2012

Food How-to

Week 154

Aalto University School of Art & Design, Arabianranta campus. A very busy but productive week, which started in a snowstorm at Aalto University, where I was running a 2-day workshop on...
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Posted by Dan Hill
March 7th, 2012

Urbanism Workshop

Week 151

Tilting at windmills. If you look very very closely at the photo above, you'll see a string of windmills on the horizon, set against the perfect blue sky. This is Högsåra, an...
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Posted by Dan Hill
February 13th, 2012

Decision-making Travels

Week 150

The week we're about to write into the archives here was the bridge between January and February. So it was a while ago, but since it's Week 150 (!) and technically still about the first month of the...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
February 11th, 2012

Weeks 148-149

Three polite words that begin with F: frozen (temperatures), and freedom (from fossil fuels), and food. Let's see how these unpack. Now that winter has set in, we are regularly experiencing...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
January 30th, 2012

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