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HDL Living Archive

Helsinki Design Lab's roots stretch back to 1968. In 2008 Sitra resurrected the initiative and operated it for five years. We are now closing this chapter of the project's life, and in doing so creating a living archive. Our intention is to open up the work of HDL as a useful platform for others who carry forward the mission of institutional redesign.

The full website will remain in place until at least the beginning of 2015. You are free to copy, remix, and extend the content here using a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. Below we've curated a shortlist of useful posts from this site's history.

  • Basics
  • What does "lab" mean to HDL?
  • Defining our mission
  • How did HDL choose projects?
  • Marco explains strategic design
  • The 'bus schedule' story
  • Booting-up
  • Recruiting rules of thumb
  • Qualities to recruit for
  • Creating this website
  • Establishing a visual language
  • Operations
  • Projects as probes
  • The pivot
  • Going beyond 'open'
  • Cultures of decision-making
  • On Post-it Notes and Powerpoint
  • Examples of our work
  • A typical week at HDL
  • Sketching in the middle of a project
  • Small events
  • And of course the projects...
  • ... and publications
  • Other resources
  • UNICEF's guide to Innovation Labs
  • Labs: Designing the future
  • Dark Matter and Trojan Horses
  • HDL
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • About
  • Team
HDL Global Day Three Kicks Off

Day Three Kicks Off

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Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 3rd, 2010
liveblog 
Legible Practises FREE BOOK about the stewardship and craft of institutional change, illustrated through the stories of six meaningful projects.

What is HDL?

Helsinki Design Lab uses strategic design to uncover the "architecture" of large-scale challenges and develop more holistic, complete solutions for improvement. We strive to advance knowledge, capability, and achievement in this discipline, regardless of geography or nationality. HDL most recently operated 2009-2013 and is now closed.

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Categories

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  • Field Reports
  • HDL Global
  • HDL Studios
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Authors

  • Bryan Boyer (195)
  • Dan Hill (21)
  • Justin W. Cook (1)
  • Kalle Freese (2)
  • Maija Oksanen (1)
  • Marco Steinberg (14)
  • Seungho Lee (2)

Memory lane (5 random posts)

  • 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...
  • A Dinner Conversation
    Alejandro Aravena, a designer from Chile, and Jan Vapaavuori, Finnish Minister of Housing, in conversation with Tyler Brûlé at the...
  • Week 154
    Aalto University School of Art & Design, Arabianranta campus. A very busy but productive week, which started in a snowstorm at Aalto...
  • Week 063
    It's already the wee hours of Monday, so technically this weeknote is being written on the first day of the HDL Studio on Sustainability....
  • 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...
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