Dear Colleagues,
 
Today, I received a query asking where to find copies of the Helsinki Design Lab books on strategic design and design thinking. Helsinki Design Lab published these pioneering books and cases under a Creative Commons license. If you are teaching design thinking and strategic design, you are free to use these books and case studies. You may reprint them, circulate them as PDF documents, share them with your students, and host them in your digital resource collection.
 
Copies are available in the “teaching documents” section of my Academia page:
 
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
 
Each of the five items carries the prefix HDL.
 
The books (Boyer, Cook, and Steinberg 2011 and Boyer, Cook, and Steinberg 2013) and exemplify the concept that the HDL people call “legible practice.” The book are rich with how-to-make-it-work details and recipes for the HDL “in studio” approach. The case studies (Boyer and Cook, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c) give full details with comprehensive information that enables you to understand what happened in each case, why, what the participants learned, and how they thought things through.
 
HDL Strategic Design was a public service design thinking consultancy within SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund. As a public service organization, they functioned in a completely open environment. They had no need for confidentiality, and they were completely free with the skills and knowledge they developed. If you want to learn how to work with design thinking in how-to-do-it detail while developing a robust theoretical framework, this is the place to begin.
 
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
    
Yours,
 
Ken

p.s. Please use this email for me in the future. After June 26, it is the only email I will use or check on a daily basis. 
 
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University | Launching in 2015 
 
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology ||| Adjunct Professor | School of Creative Arts | James Cook University | Townsville, Australia 
 
Email [log in to unmask] | Academia http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman | D&I http://tjdi.tongji.edu.cn 
  
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References
 
Boyer, Bryan, and Justin W. Cook. 2012a. Case Study: Instrumental Design. Creating New Opportunities and Exposing Hidden Risks in the Healthcare Ecosystem. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
 
Boyer, Bryan, and Justin W. Cook. 2012b. Case Study: Thinking Big by Starting Small. Designing Pathways to Successful Waste Management in India and Beyond. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
 
Boyer, Bryan, and Justin W. Cook. 2012c. From Shelter to Equity. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
 
Boyer, Bryan, Justin W. Cook, and Marco Steinberg. 2011. In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
 
Boyer, Bryan, Justin W. Cook, and Marco Steinberg. 2013. Legible Practises. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
 


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