The book In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change, explores the Helsinki Design Lab Studio Model, a unique way of bringing together the right people, a carefully framed problem, a supportive place, and an open-ended process to craft an integrated vision and sketch the pathway towards strategic improvement. It’s particularly geared towards problems that have no single owner. Currently HDL is working on the themes: aging, extended well-being, and sustainability.

The book is available as free download, and also for purchase at selected bookstores. 

Also from HDL: Ethnography Fieldguide

Bill Moggridge responds to Don Norman’s “Design Thinking: A Useful Myth” via Core77

“Tim Brown (IDEO) says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking” (extracted from TED site).

• Change by Design by Tim Brown (book)
• Tim Brown on Creativity & Play (video)