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Week 138: Mostly about food

Roll call! Johanna is mostly pitching in on Synergize Finland projects, Justin is holding down the fort in Boston, Marco is in Moscow giving a talk at Skolkovo, and Dan is somewhere in Australia...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
November 15th, 2011
 

Thoughts from Connection

If you look closely, you’ll see many of the rooftops of Bucharests’ Lipscani quarter glimmer in the sun, reflecting newly applied copper and tin back to the sky above as if to suggest...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
October 19th, 2011
 

Week 129

Perhaps the last thing we expected to do Thursday was end the day by moving 742 kilograms of paper, cardboard, and ink around Sitra HQ. But when a shipment arrives and the palette it sits on does not...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
September 12th, 2011
 

The New Work

As we mentioned previously, last month we were working with the Synergize Finland team to run three concurrent studios on the theme of "new work". The details are continually pouring...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
June 16th, 2011

Week 113

With the sun glinting off the Baltic and a cloudless sky stretching to the horizon, this weeknote commemorates the beginning of summer in Helsinki. Amazing. As much as the weather may entice us to...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
May 20th, 2011
 

Week 112

Marco kicks off the Synergize Finland studios with an introduction to strategic design As Bryan surreptitiously hinted at last week, I’ve just joined the Strategic Design Unit here...
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Posted by Dan Hill
May 12th, 2011

Week 110

This week was as pleasant as 110 is round. Progress on many fronts and no emergencies, though we do have a glimpse of a storm that might be rumbling our way. Two weeks from today we will be wrapping...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
April 29th, 2011

Weeks 107-108

Some vignettes from these two blurry weeks. — It's monday and Carl Mossfeldt of the Tallberg Foundation stops by for a chat at Sitra. Our two organizations have a region and a culture in...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
April 16th, 2011
 

Weeks 104-106

It feels a bit like an air traffic control tower in our corner of Sitra-house these days. Between various physical comings and goings, we've also been in the thick of routing projects to and fro. A...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 31st, 2011
 

Weeks 101-102

March is a good name for this month. That's what it feels like: a march. Summer is already just around the corner but there's a lot to be done between now and then. These past two weeks have mostly...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 4th, 2011
     

Week 100

This momentous week (100!) passed as a flurry of early-stage discussions on emerging areas of work in Sitra Strategic Design land. Three of the many plates spinning, offered with little or no...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
February 22nd, 2011