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Antikainen

Tuomas Antikainen is a Finnish industrial designer with a long experience on a broad multidisciplinary design field. He sees design as a holistic means to approach different issues and tasks.

Antikainen has been active with his own company for 15 years and carried out projects from heavyduty metal-industry to cosmetics packages as well as museum and exhibition design. All through the years Antikainen has shared an interest on analytical and user-oriented design skills.

Antikainen has also been active with the University of Art and Design Helsinki, concentrating on strategic design and various student-projects with companies.

Experiential Knowledge
Through a series of coCreationcamp(s), we explore the design of knowledge exchange to expand innovation opportunities. Different forms and formats are shaped: join the conversation and let's intersect and expand knowledge scapes. We are working at Helsinki coCreationcamp in May 2012, Paris D-Days June 2012, Copenhagen June 2012, Torino Nov. 2012 and coCreationcamp Creative Wallonia.
Let’s co-create
After Helsinki coCreationcamp on 22-23 May 2012, Madrid on May 28th, Paris on June 1st, and Copenhagen coCreationcamp on June 18-19th 2012, we were in London end June (co-creation & food design) and in Torino on Nov. 9 (about autoproduction, in connection with Operae). The 2012 series is ending with coCreationcamp Creative Wallonia.
Milano April 2012 – Liège Oct. 2012
coCreationcamp was in Milano, selected for the exhibition at the Triennale: "Perspectives, Belgium is Design", April 17-22, 2012, sharing some aspects of the coCreationcamp design project. This exhibition presence takes also place in "Belgian on Tour", as part of Reciprocity, Liège Design Biennal.
Belgium is Design, in Milano at the Triennale, has selected coCreationcamp for the exhibition during the Milano Design Week, 17-22 April 2012 Perspectives

We claim that co-creation praxis is at the intersection zone of innovation, design and storytelling.
Brussels coCreationcamp – the first one
A vast range of speakers, from public service innovation with MindLab (dk) to start-up eYeka, from Strategic Design Scenarios to Copenhagen Business School ..., were on Nov. 20 at SDS for the workshops followed by PechaKucha Brussels and Nov. 21 for the symposium at
"Salle des Livres"
Tour des Finances
50 bvd du Jardin Botanique
1000 Brussels