Helsinki Design Lab's roots stretch back to In 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 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. Marco declares, "winter is officially over. Small steps. Last week this pile was snow. By the end of this week it will be slush. A solid heads-down week here on the home front with no travel and no major events. Just a lot of good conversations in between dispatching work across the slate of ongoing projects.
Dan and I were working on internal stuff including Sitra's portfolio management, language habits, systems, and spaces. This sounds like a lot because it is a lot. The organization has committed itself to what amounts to a rather significant transition in a short span of time and many of us across Sitra are contributing to various parts of this. Coordination is not an issue so much as continuity. When working in different teams with disjointed schedules and at least two languages in the mix, keeping continuity through the workβand through its full durationβis the challenge.
Although we have a good store of experience in house, bits and pieces of this specific transition make it unique, something that none of us know immediately how to handle. I might even say that having to make it up as we go along has been a positive experience.
