Heikka Valja

Tuntiopettaja
Tuntiopettaja
A806 Department of Art and Media

Heikka Valja is a part-time lecturer and doctoral candidate in the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. He holds a master's degree in art education. His master's thesis is published on the website of Systems Intelligence Research Group.

Valja's doctoral research concerns play, games and gaming in art education. He is interested in the experientality of digital and non-digital games and gaming. Valja's view on games is in line with constructionist ludology.

Valja teaches a wide variety of subjects in Aalto University: game history and game design, game education and gamification, online learning, digital art and illustration, graphic design and social media. 

Valja is part of Martial Arts Based Research team in which he studies the playful and game-like aspects of martial arts.

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Publications

Games in the Finnish art teachers’ curriculum

Heikka Valja 2022 International Journal of Education through Art

Fair and Encouraging - Developing an Automatic Assessment System in Aalto Drawing

Christina Lassheikki, Iina Nokelainen, Yuanqi Shan, Maximus Kaos, Martti Raevaara, Heikka Valja, Perttu Hämäläinen 2018

Game as Experience

Mira Kallio-Tavin, Heikka Valja, Mikko Sallinen 2017

Transforming Traditions

Tiina Pusa, Marja Rastas, Mikko Sallinen, Heikka Valja, Henrika Ylirisku 2017 Synnyt

Martial Arts-based Research

Tiina Pusa, Marja Rastas, Henrika Ylirisku, Heikka Valja, Mikko Sallinen 2016