Miikka Lehtonen

Miikka Lehtonen

Miikka J. Lehtonen is a multidisciplinary academic with a research and teaching focus on engineering, design, and business. He believes in learning by doing, and this belief is reflected in his teaching methods. As a consequence, in 2018 he and his colleagues established Nordic Rebels, a movement transforming learning and higher education. To date, Nordic Rebels has won several national and international awards, one of them being the Danish Design Award in the Better Learning category.
 
Prior to joining DIDI, Miikka has worked at Aalto University in Finland and the University of Tokyo in Japan. In addition, he also has prior work and teaching experience in Denmark, the United States, Russia, India, and China. Miikka's current research interests and teaching methods focus on visual methodologies and knowledge production, management and creativity in game companies, design practices and management in contemporary organizations, and national design competencies.


INDUSTRY EXPERTISE:

* Design entrepreneurship
* Design strategies and management
* Multidisciplinary teamwork
* Learning organizations
* Design tools and methods
* Game industry


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