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Week 138: Mostly about food

Roll call! Johanna is mostly pitching in on Synergize Finland projects, Justin is holding down the fort in Boston, Marco is in Moscow giving a talk at Skolkovo, and Dan is somewhere in Australia...
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Week 136

Notes rather than thoughts/links this week, if you don't mind. First up, a few meetings. Bryan and I caught up with Ville Relander, the City of Helsinki's PM for their Food Culture Strategy. Many,...
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Week 135

Logistics first: Justin and I were in the office all week; Dan spent half of it in Tallinn presenting at Creative Entrepreneurship for a Competitive Economy; and Marco was around until...
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Week 134

A mixed bag of links, reports and observations this week. Although it's just been found to be in fine fettle in terms of its core missions (link; Finnish) Sitra is looking at its new strategy for...
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Week 132

The air is increasingly crisp as autumn falls upon Helsinki. And yet summer is not giving up without a fight. This week we enjoyed one of the warmest September days on record. It does feel warmer...
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Week 131

This week's diaries look much the same as last week's. Another launch event for the HDL In Studio book, but this time in London. HDL In Studio books waiting to be launched. Before the...
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Weeks 127-128

INDEX Awards party. Catching up, catching up. As predicted, Autumn is here and the pace is picking up. Several of us are just back from Copenhagen Design Week, where we did a number...
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Week 118

In brief: Summer continues to unfold in all its richness. (This is actually  code for highly variable weather and a flurry of increasingly urgent meetings, but still.) Marco, Justin and I...
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Week 117

With Juhannus now days away, we're transitioning from a spring of spiky activity that came in high and rapid peaks to a mid-year that is more even-keeled. As Dan mentioned last time, this...
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Week 116

Summer on Seurasaari Helsinki is now basking in full summer, with a couple of days touching 30 degrees this week. The city is glorious like this, with every inch of street, park and...
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Week 115

As June begins we've been working on a number of small bits: helping some of them grow into slightly less-small bits, and eventually real projects. In other words, sketching, discussing, calendaring,...
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Weeks 101-102

March is a good name for this month. That's what it feels like: a march. Summer is already just around the corner but there's a lot to be done between now and then. These past two weeks have mostly...
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Week 100

This momentous week (100!) passed as a flurry of early-stage discussions on emerging areas of work in Sitra Strategic Design land. Three of the many plates spinning, offered with little or no...
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Week 084

A quick post for a quick week. We were strewn about again. Marco was in London presenting at the European Future Energy Forum and Justin and I were in Boston charretting on Low2No. It's always nice...
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Week 083

That restfulness I wrote about last week? Yeah, that's gone. Week 083 started with an adventure. We climbed to the tip top of our building to get a good view of Jätkäsaari to take some...
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Guest Blog: The Takeaway is People

Editor's note: We offered this blog as a platform to four HDL Global participants who are documenting the event for everyone to get a glimpse of how things went down. This is one such post by Rory...
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Guest Blog: The French Laundry Meets Systems Problem Solving

Editor's note: We offered this blog as a platform to four HDL Global participants who are documenting the event for everyone to get a glimpse of how things went down. This is one such post by Ido...
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Week 073

If this was any indication of what we can expect for the whole of August, it's going to be a crazy month as we narrow in on HDL Global. Lots of things cooking right now—probably too many. XOXCO...
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A City in Crisis: Part Two

This post continues the story of Seungho’s trip to Cambodia with Aalto University. Read the first part if you want to catch up... So here we were, nine of us from five different countries...
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Space as a capability

Announcing a new approach to space exploration yesterday, President Obama shifted the focus from getting somewhere to building capability. “Step by step, we will push the boundaries not only...
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