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{{Infobox person|name = Johanna Koljonen|image=JohannaKoljonen2010.jpg|nationality=Finland|organization={{unbulleted list|[[Nordic Larp Talks]]|[[Knutepunkt]]}}|website={{URL|johannakoljonen.wordpress.com}}|citizenship=Sweden|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1978|06|17}}|years_active=1995-present}}'''Johanna Koljonen''' is an experience designer and media analyst, with a continuing career as a writer, Radio broadcaster, author and TV host, critic, and . She is a popular lecturer on larp and topics related topicsto narrative participation. She was lead editor of and a significant contributor to the 2019 volume Larp Design. Her groundbreaking larp criticism, in essays like “Eye-Witness to the Illusion: The Impossibility of 360° Role-Playing” and “The Dragon Was the Least of it: Larp As Ephemera and Ruin” are widely quoted in the field. She is he co-author of the book-length larp autopsy [[Dragonbane]] - The Legacy|Dragonbane – The Legacy]]. She also won the innovator category of the The Swedish Grand Journalism Prize of 2011.
Johanna has also been hosting co-founded the [[Nordic Larp Talks]] from together with [[Andie Nordgren]] and [[Petter Karlsson]] and has hosted them since 2010-2012.
 ==Larps== ===Larpwright (designer/co-designer)=== *''Fenriskampanjen'', ca 1996-1999 ===Additional Design=== *[[Inside Hamlet|''Inside Hamlet'']], 2015, 2017, 2018, conceptual design; 2018, workshop design*''[[BAPHOMET]]'', additional design* ===Executive producer=== *[[Inside Hamlet|''Inside Hamlet'']], 2018 ===Character Writing=== *[[Hamlet Inifrån|''Hamlet Inifrån'']], 2002 ==Lectures== *Safety and Calibration in Larp, Larpwriter Summerschool, July 2016 <br /> ==Short Talks== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLisM8wqUhQv3NRxtGXLrp5kWL6NtGGHbt&v=qHKLE5GOBLY Loyalty to World – Fader Talk], Larpwriter Summer School, July 2016*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSoJhfmcfc Pressure on Player – Fader Talk], Larpwriter Summer School, July 2016 <br />==Editor== *Assistant editor, [[What Do We Do When We Play?|''What Do We Do When We Play?'']], 2020.*[[Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences|''Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences'']], Bifrost 2019, with Jaakko Stenros, Anne Serup Grove, Aina Skjønsfjell, and Elin Nielsen.*Founder, with Jaakko Stenros, and editor in chief of the ''[[panclou]]'' role-playing game fanzine (1997-), which had a formative effect on the early developments of the live role-playing theory movement in the Nordic Countries. ==Author== *'Carolus Rex. The Flagship of Enclosed Space Opera.' in Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds: ''Nordic Larp'', Fëa Livia 2010.*'En Stilla Middag Med Familjen. First Person Bourgeois Drama.' in Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds: ''Nordic Larp'', Fëa Livia 2010.*'Dragonbane. Tangible Fantasy, Plausible Magic.' (with Tiinaliisa Multamäki) in Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds: ''Nordic Larp'', Fëa Livia 2010.*Introduction to the catalogue for Game Continent at the Aros Modern Museum in Aarhus. Game Continent was a 2010 work by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum.*’The Dragon Was the Least of It: Dragonbane and LARP as Ephemera and Ruin’, Montola & Stenros (eds): ''Playground Worlds. Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games''. Ropecon ry, 2008.*‘Eye-Witness to the Illusion. On the Impossibility of 360° Role-Playing’, Donnis, Gade, & Thorup (eds): ''Lifelike''. Knudepunkt 2007, 2007.*‘I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul. Lessons from ''Hamlet''’, Montola & Stenros (eds): ''Beyond Role and Play. Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing the Imagination''. Ropecon ry 2004.*‘Why do bad LARPS happen to good people?’, Gade, Thorup & Sander (eds): ''As Larp Grows Up. Theory and Methods in Larp'', Projektgruppen KP03, 2003.  Contributor to [[panclou]], [[Roolipelaaja]] and [[Playground Magazine]]. <br />[[Category:People|Koljonen, Johanna]][[Category:Finland|Koljonen, JohannaFinnish people]][[Category:Larp authors]][[Category:Sweden|Koljonen, JohannaLarp community builders]]