Helsinki Design Lab
Collected notes and fragments from Sitra's Strategic Design Unit. You may be looking for HDL or Low2No, both projects of Sitra.
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HDL Weeknote: Week 154 →
In which we report briefly on our ‘everyday food’ workshop with Aalto Univ. students, update on ‘Brickstarter’, and critique the City’s plans for Baana.
Weeks 152-153 - Helsinki Design Lab →
The psychology of brainstorming, ships in the harbor, and upcoming events. These were weeks 152-153.
Week 138: Mostly about food - Helsinki Design Lab →
Wherein we talk about data mining, street food, vomit, and then tell a story about women’s rights in 1960s Finland.
"Kent State, Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall: we clearly use locales, edifices, architecture to house our memories and political energy. Politics troubles our consciences. But places haunt our imaginations."
"nyone can be a brain. What takes real talent is being able to create meaningful solutions and uplift people. It is grace under fire, not competitiveness, that will win every time in the chaotic workplaces of the future. Insight workers are “not just accountable for accumulating knowledge, but for real problem solving, for the ability to work laterally across boundaries, either alone or in collaboration with others."
Week 134 - Helsinki Design Lab →
Weeknote, featuring team round-up, fast food detritus on Helsinki’s streets (beware, feat. vomit). ASIX visit, Finnish schools, Occupy protests, airships and a how-to for door-opening.
Mr Cameron, it's time to get the designers in →
The Guardian on Sitra, strategic design and Helsinki Design Lab.
"We pledge to lead by example and contribute to advancing open government in other countries by sharing best practices and expertise and by undertaking the commitments expressed in this declaration on a non-binding, voluntary basis. Our goal is to foster innovation and spur progress, and not to define standards to be used as a precondition for cooperation or assistance or to rank countries. We stress the importance to the promotion of openness of a comprehensive approach and the availability of technical assistance to support capacity- and institution-building."
An initiative started by Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
"Recent research suggests that the processes and mechanisms of trust repair are fundamentally different at the organizational vs. interpersonal level (see Gillespie and Dietz, 2009). However, there is currently limited research conceptualising trust at the institutional and organizational levels [for foundational work see Shapiro (1987) and Zucker (1986)], and little understanding of how macro and micro level forces influence trust dynamics at the institutional level. Given the recent financial crisis and associated failures, a redirection of attention to focus on trust in organizations and institutions is warranted."
