Helsinki Design Lab

HDL is now closed. For more info, click here.

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.

All posts tagged liveblog

HDL Global That's a wrap

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 3rd, 2010

HDL Global Day Three Kicks Off

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 3rd, 2010

HDL Global It begins

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 2nd, 2010

HDL Global Day Two Ramping Up

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 2nd, 2010

HDL Global LaSalle Leffall

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 2nd, 2010

HDL Global U is for Utopia

Tuomas Toivonen performing tracks from Urbanism Is In The House.

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global A Dinner Conversation

Alejandro Aravena, a designer from Chile, and Jan Vapaavuori, Finnish Minister of Housing, in conversation with Tyler Brûlé at the opening dinner of HDL Global.

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global Helen Han introducing her film, Tending The Garden City

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global Who is this mystery performer doing a sound check?

Who is this mystery performer doing a sound check?

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global More speaker briefings

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global Literally running around town

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global A quick briefing with our Thursday moderators

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global AV versus the statue

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global Sorry, Antarctica!

Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 1st, 2010

HDL Global Making menus

Posted by Bryan Boyer
August 31st, 2010

HDL Global Day -1 begins!

Not the greatest weather for our guests, but it's the content that counts. We're one day away from HDL Global 2010.

Posted by Bryan Boyer
August 31st, 2010

Memory lane (5 random posts)

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...
Week 103
I suspect that our week ended the same way that yours did: in utter shock and dismay over the events in Japan. Between the floods in Australia and...
Week 059
With just a few short days before the first studio guests arrive, we're in loppukiri ("final sprint") mode. Seungho, Minna, Sanna, and Hanna...
Always Work With Good People
While reviewing the technical spec for our new site I was amused to find this little nugget of humor – as if XOXCO had embedded...
LaSalle Leffall