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Petter Karlsson

A Swedish larper, larp designer and producer. He is one of the owners of pedagogic larp production company LajvVerkstaden and he also produces the Nordic Larp Talks.

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Ship Ahoy! Mark your calendar for Solmukohta 2016!

2015-08-04 0 Petter Karlsson

On Wednesday the 9th to Monday the 14th of March 2016 it’s once again time for the international roleplaying conference Solmukohta. The conference often known as Knutepunkt is this year in Finland and therefore goes by it’s Finnish name Solmukohta for…

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All the Mistakes I’ve Done Episode IV

2014-04-13 1 Petter Karlsson

A classic program item at Knutepunkt is the “All the mistakes I’ve done” session. At Knutpunkt 2014 we once more got larp designer and producers to tell some of their dark secrets. Sharing mistakes this round was Juhana Pettersson, Anna-Karin…

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New Tastes in Brazilian Larp – From Dark Coca Cola to Caipirinha with Nordic Ice

2014-04-13 1 Petter Karlsson

What’s up in the Brazilian larp scene? In this session from Knutpunkt 2014, Wagner Luiz Schmit talks about how Nordic Larp has influenced parts of Brazilian larps. The video is unfortunately cut short in the end. Debate about the recent…

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Larp Design: Theory and Practice

2014-04-11 2 Petter Karlsson

In this great talk at Knutpunkt 2014, larpwright Eirik Fatland give a very good breadown of larp design. Why do people do the stuff they do at larps, and how can you make them do other, more interesting, things? Characters!…

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Spatial Design – Experiences

2014-04-11 1 Petter Karlsson

How can we create a spatial experience with which we design the player experience? Jonas Trier-Knudsen & Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo hosted this session at Knutpunkt 2014 where several organizer shared their best practices and experiences in short talks. The video is…

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Short Presentations of Larps and Projects for 2014 and 2015

2014-04-11 1 Petter Karlsson

At Knutpunkt 2014, a bunch of larps, festivals and events was presented. It was hosted by Magnar Grønvik Müller The video is unfortunately cut short in the end. Short and sweet presentations of upcoming larps, larp festivals, larp conventions and…

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Knutpunkt 2014 – Summary

2014-04-07 11 Petter Karlsson

The larp conference Knutpunkt 2014 is now over and in this post we will gather as much material as possible. This post has been updated with all the filmed presentations, many of the slides, blogposts etc. Last updated 2014-05-08 Blog…

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Voices from Knutpunkt

2014-03-24 0 Petter Karlsson

Voices from Knutpunkt is a crowd-sourced initiative to document and share the experience and the people at the Nordic larp conference Knutpunkt 2014. You are welcome to take part in the collaboration. If you want to discuss it, please join…

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State of Siege – A Palestinian-Finnish larp project

2013-05-29 3 Petter Karlsson

Last August the larp Till Death Do us Part was organized as a cooperation between Norwegian and Palestian larp designers. It was the first bigger Palestian larp project and since then many projects has has happened in and in connection…

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