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.
When things are done “for real” there is always some confusion on how real is real, as there are numerous different levels of simulation, representation, and performance.
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…
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…