SYDNEY - Seminar with Dan Hill, Helsinki Design Lab
Recipes for Systemic
Change from Helsinki Design Lab
WITH DAN HILL
Social Innovator Dialogues are pleased to announce our final international speaker for 2011 - strategic designer Dan Hill from Helsinki Design Lab.
Dan Hill returns to Australia in November to continue the global conversation developing around the areas of strategic design, urban policy and urban design. He will discuss the Helsinki Design Lab's Studio Model and recent HDL initiatives including Low2No, a Finnish program designed to help transition cities to a low carbon future by balancing economy, ecology and society through strategic investments and interventions in the built environment.
Helsinki Design Lab helps government leaders see the "architecture of problems." It assists decision-makers to view challenges from a big-picture perspective, and provide guidance toward more complete solutions that consider all aspects of a problem. This is strategic design.
Formerly based in Sydney as Urban Informatics leader for Arup, Dan has worked extensively on urban projects within Australia and internationally, giving him a unique perspective on how the Helsinki Design Studio model might work in an Australian context.
This three hour seminar on the HDL Studio Model and Recipes for Systemic Change will include worked examples. To ensure a healthy and useful conversation, feedback and critique on the book and the HDL Studio Model will be welcome.
A free PDF edition of Recipes for Systemic Change can be downloaded from theHDL website.
Who is this Seminar for?
If you are interested in the evolving practise of strategic design as a way to solve complex problems, or creating an environment within which this work can best happen. This seminar is for policy makers, leaders in the public and third sectors and designers who are interested in strategic design as a response to complex problems.
About Dan Hill:
Dan Hill is Strategic Design Lead, at Helsinki Design Lab, powered by Sitra in Finland. He is a designer and strategist whose background includes interaction and service design, foresight and strategy, urban planning and urbanism, media and creative industries. Prior to Sitra, Dan was an Associate at Arup, the global multidisciplinary design and engineering firm, Director of Web & Broadcast at Monocle, and Head of Interactive Technology and Design at the BBC. He has worked in leadership/practitioner positions across several industries and continents, for organisations large and small, and within both public and private sectors.
He received his BSc in Computer Science from University of Hertfordshire and MA in Urban Sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University.
About Sitra:
Sitra is the Finnish Innovation Fund which has a mission to build for the future.
Sitra is an independent fund operating under the supervision of the Finnish Parliament, which seeks to promote stable and balanced development in Finland, qualitative and quantitative growth of the economy, and international competitiveness and cooperation. Its operations are funded out of the returns from our endowment capital and business funding.
Sitra searches for new understandings of well-being. Through foresight activities we anticipate societal changes and attempt to address them proactively. In our investments and pilot projects we promote new operating models and stimulate businesses aimed at sustainable well-being.
The aim of this work is to help Finland prosper as a global pioneer in systemic changes that foster well-being. A systemic change is a broad, far-reaching change of the kind that simultaneously affects the structures and practices of society and the everyday life of its citizens. Sitra is an enabler of such changes—as visionary and implementer. It is building a successful Finland for tomorrow.
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