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Week 116
Summer on SeurasaariHelsinki 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 pavement full of...
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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 continue to...
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Weeks 123-124
The docks don't stop working.And ... we're back.Finland returns from its summer break en-masse this week. Cafes, trams and shops are suddenly full again, although the collective mood still seems to be...
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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 of productive...
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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 launch though,...
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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 the...
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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, many...
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Week 139
Late late late, always with the weeknotes. I do apologise, not least to my more productive colleague Bryan, who is always on time with his weeknotes DAMN HIM. Bryan, Justin and Marco spent most of the...
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Week 140
Eira, Helsinki, 0830This was the view in Helsinki (Eira, specifically) this morning as I dropped my kids off at päiväkoti (daycare). For a relatively new Helsinki resident, the sun appears to be doing...
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The 'Exchange' project we've been referring to for a few months emerges a little, blinking in the shallow light of a cold December morning. We're looking for a strategic designer, with particular...
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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 island that forms a small...
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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 the Master of...
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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 Australia all week,...
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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 Markku...
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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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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 (well,...
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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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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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Week 186
Last week we hosted Helsinki Design Lab Global 2012. The event was almost a year in the making, and you would've seen it referred to obliquely a couple of times here. We'll post a fuller update...
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North and South
As Bryan has already noted, a month ago I left Sitra, left Helsinki and moved to Italy, where I’m the now the CEO of Fabrica, a communications research centre and trandisciplinary studio. (You can read...
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