Annika Waern

Annika Waern
Nationality	Sweden
Website	annikawaern.wordpress.com

Annika Waern is a larp designer and organiser, and game studies academic, from Sweden. During 2004-2008, she was the coordinator of the EU project IPerG, known for its groundbreaking investigations into pervasive games. Her academic publications primarily focus on the design and study pervasive larp productions such as Momentum and Conspiracy for Good. As a designer, she has also been a contributor to productions exploring novel formats, such as the pervasive interactive performanceInterference and the larp musical Cabaret, but also designed several smaller scenarios, of which some have been featured at Prolog, Sandcon, and Stockholm Scenario festival. Annika works as professor in Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Lectures

Keynote Speaker, CHIPlay 2016. ‘Play, participation and empowerment: Design strategies and dilemmas.’

Invited speaker, ‘Activating play’ symposium, University of Eindhoven, September 2015. Presented topic: “Engaging with structure”.

Short Talks

Invited Speaker, Pyrkon Fan Festival 2017, Poznan, Poland

Larps

Interference (2008)

The Crash (2007) - Co-designed with John-Paul Bichard

Cabaret - the larp musical (2013-2017)

"Return to Innocence" (2019) - co-designed with Celia Pearce

"The Race" - an

"The Gift"

"You Want it Darker" - Featured at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2017

"Revolver" - Featured at Prolog 2014

External Links

• Professional home page: https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N13-228
• Blog: annikawaern.wordpress.com
• Integrated Project on Pervasive Games: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/004457