Recipes for Systemic Change - Helsinki Design Lab

Appendix331Thank YouThis book and the work that it describes benefit from the involvementof many people. First and foremost, we would like to thank the participantsof the first three HDL Studios as well as our studio assistants (pages58-59, 68-69, 78-79) and all guest speakers and those who hosted our fieldtrips (pages 60-61, 70-71, 80-81). Without their active and enthusiasticengagement, much of this would not have been possible. Annikki Herranen,Seungho Lee, and Hanna Häppölä deserve special mention fortheir extra effort behind the scenes.Through their involvement in various Studios during the past twoyears we sincerely appreciate the support of our colleagues at Sitra,especially Tapio Anttila, Mika Kalliomaa, Sanna Kettunen, Elina Kiiski,Johanna Kirkinen, Juha Kostiainen, Paula Laine, Minna Mayer, HelenaMustikainen, Jukka Noponen, Hannele Sirkkanen, Jonna Stenman. Andof course to Mikko Kosonen for allowing us to deliver.Without the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Ministry ofHousing, and City of Helsinki the studio challenges described here wouldbe lacking real depth.Ezra Block and Adriel Mesznik intrepidly contributed research andwriting muscle to the Challenge Briefings. Jeremiah Tesolin and MarttiTulenheimo provided valuable feedback on the manuscript.We’ve enjoyed listening to and learning from Alejandro Aravena, PeterBarmer, Christian Bason, Landon Brown, Laura Bunt, Ivo Corda, RamaGheerawo, Rosanne Haggerty, the team at DEMOS Helsinki, Rory Hyde,Irene Hwang, Erkki Izarra, Indy Johar, Martti Kalliala, Poonam Bir Kasturi,Maja Kecman, John Landau, Nick Mabey, Geoff Mulgan, Anni Puolakka,Darrel Rhea, Jack Schulze, Jenna Sutela, Tuomas Toivonen, Martinand Lupi at TwoPoints, Anna Valtonen and her staff at the Umeå Instituteof Design, Matt Webb, and Dan Hill. This last individual has since joinedSitra where we are happy to have him as a member of the Strategic DesignUnit.In addition, events hosted by Ken Friedman and his staff at SwinburneUniversity of Technology in Melbourne, Marcio de Miranda Santos andClaudio Chauke Nehme at CGEE in Brasilia, and Andrea Coleman andCynthia Shanmugalingam at the Young Foundation have provided richtesting grounds for many of the ideas we explore in the introduction.Our thanks to all of the individuals and organisations named aboveand the many others who have made contributions big and small alongthe way.