Tag: Documentation
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Solmukohta 2020: Shearing Sheep and Holding Ballots – Community Building in a Post-Apocalyptic Campaign
A talk about Second Year (Toinen vuosi), a 4-part larp campaign about building a community of survivors immediately following an apocalyptic pandemic.
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Solmukohta 2020: Living or Larping Consumer Culture? Exploring the Commodification of Larp
Usva discusses how larp is becoming commodified, what that means, and what the repercussions of this for specific events as well as the community at large.
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Solmukohta 2020 Keynote: Sarah Lynne Bowman – Integrating Larp Experiences
Dr. Sarah Lynne Bowman talks about integration practices for concretizing & completing transformative processes after larps end & daily life resumes.
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Solmukohta 2020 Keynote: Kjell Hedgard Hugaas – Designing for Transformative Impacts
Kjell Hedgard Hugaas is a game designer, activist, politician, event organizer, and trained actor. In this keynote, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas will make the case for why we should design larps that invite the potential for transformative impacts on players. He will discuss the importance of transparency and intentionality when designing for impacts in domains such
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Solmukohta 2020: Kaisa Kangas – Seaside Prison – Designing Larp for Wider Cultural Audiences
Seaside Prison is a larp about life in Gaza. In this talk we discuss the its creation, its aims, & the futures for larp in the culture establishment.
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Solmukohta 2020: Mátyás Hartyándi – Larp – Oddity, Hypernym or what?
A talk about the future and self-definition of larps for those who are interested in overlapping activities and/or multidisciplinary cooperations.
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Vedergällningen, the Vengeance: a Viking Horror Larp
Vedergällningen was a Viking horror larp in Sweden focusing on the relationships between humans, their community, and their gods.
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From Winson Green Prison to Suffragette: Representations of First-Wave Feminists in Larps
In this article, I present feedback on my experience playing and writing on suffragettes in larps set in early 20th century Europe. I present the diverse angles through which the theme and characters were approached in these larps and contrast their differences. These games are set up at a time period with clearly separated gender
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BAPHOMET – The Road to Damnation
BAPHOMET was a larp about personal horror with the themes terror, lust, desire, power and loss of control; a group descended into madness together.
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Let’s Talk Freak Show
An honest, possibly scrambled, and very emotional review and critique. Trigger warning: Contains coarse language and depictions of violent acts. In September 15-17, 2017, I attended the larp Freakshow by Nina Teerilahti, Alessandro Giovannucci, Dominika Cembala, Martin Olsson, Morgan Kollin, and Simon Brind. The larp was held in Vaasa, Finland. Pre-game painting of Charlie “Edge”