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Jaakko Stenros

Jaakko Stenros (PhD) is a game scholar working at Tampere University. He has published eleven books and numerous articles, has co-created a few larps, and has curated exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Games.

https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/about/

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Jaakko Stenros: Retrospective: Documentation, Community, and Research

2023-11-10 0 Jaakko Stenros

In the Knutepunkt scene there is a history of larp designers and producers giving retrospectives, where they discuss all of their work. In this talk, here presented in two parts, Dr Stenros takes that format and expands it to other…

Theory

Beauty in Larp

2020-05-28 0 Jaakko Stenros James Lórien Macdonald

What makes a thing beautiful to do? In this text Jaakko Stenros and James Lórien MacDonald explore a general aesthetic theory for larp.

Theory

The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

2015-04-29 7 Markus Montola Jaakko Stenros Eleanor Saitta

The rhetorics of Nordic larp often imply that role-players play in an intuitive fashion guided by the character, rarely or never contemplating their actions during the game. In reality, however, we are often keenly aware of what we are doing…

Jaakko Stenros: Retrospective: Documentation, Community, and Research

Beauty in Larp

The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

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