Susanne Vejdemo
Susanne Vejdemo is a linguist, larper, and larpwright. She often writes games involving politics or ethical dilemmas.
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42) |
Nationality | Sweden |
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Website | susanne |
Larps
- Frizon, 2010, Sweden. A mobile adventure/drama larp about the legacy of a past genocide. With Daniel Armyr.
- Once More with Passion, 2011, Sweden. A chamber larp about the nature of inter-human conflict. With Elli Åhlvik.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - A Shakespeare larp. With Love Sjögren, Constance Bell Long, Stefan Björk.
- Granny's Great-granny's Tiara, 2012. A chamber larp about the Swedish female gender role and mother-daughter relationships. With Daniel Armyr. Available on DriveThruRPG.
- Suffragett!, 2014. A larp about the Women's Right to Vote movement in 1918, in collaboration with Hallwylska Museet. With Daniel Armyr, Cecilia Billskog, Siri Sandquist.
- The Ancestral Farm, 2014. A chamber larp about the Swedish male gender role and father-son relationships. With Daniel Armyr.
- So Mom I Made This Sex Tape, 2016 in #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology, Different generations (waves) of feminists argue it out about sex, porn and what the main point of feminism really is. Available here https://feministnanogames.wordpress.com/
- Suffragette! International, 2018. An expanded version of the 2014 Suffragett! larp, with participants from all over Europe, playing characters based on their own countries' women's movement heroes in 1912. With Siri Sandquist, Rosalind Göthberg, Christina Bodling.
- Now Listen Young Lady, published in GameWrap#2 2017
- Fight Like A Girl. 2018. An international post-ap larp "about the suffragette wars of the 22nd century." With Frida Gamero.
Other events
Susanne has held several workshops on good ways (and bad ways) to use ciphers, puzzles and codes in larps. A small pamphlet is available here.
Susanne and Anna Westerling held a seminar and a workshop about collaborations between larps and museums at the Swedish State Museums yearly convention in 2015.
Together with Eva Wei, Susanne held a workshop on culturally and ethnically based discrimination in the Swedish larp scene, on Prolog 2016.
Articles
- Anpassningsstrategier i lajvspråk (Adaption strategies in larp conlangs), 2004. Master thesis, Stockholm University. Available here
- Confessing, Gossipping and Confronting as conscious tools for a better larp, 2015. Available at https://workshophandbook.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/confessing-gossipping-and-confronting-as-conscious-tools-for-a-better-larp/
- Design Strategies for Discussion-Heavy Larps, 2016, with Theo Axner. In Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp.
- Group improvisation of Larp Rituals , 2018 (a workshop). (Susanne has held this at various cons and larps.) Knutpunkt proceedings. With Elli Garperian.
- Play to Lift, Not Just to Lose, 2018. Knutpunkt proceedings.