Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: a breathing corpus
| Country | Norway |
|---|---|
| Published | 2025 (Knutepunkt 2025) |
| Pages | 496 |
Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: a breathing corpus is the journal of Knutepunkt 2025. It is available in three versions: preordered handed out at KP (ISBN 978-82-692633-2-9), free pdf (ISBN 978-82-692633-4-3) and is planned to be set up as Print-on-Demand (ISBN 978-82-692633-3-6) after KP. Two physical copies are available in the public library system of every Knutepunkt host-country.
Contents
Contributors
Coordinator: Nadja Lipsyc
Graphics team: Coordinator: Anne Serup Grove. Illustrations: Yanina Zaichanka & Kirsten van Werven. Layout, diagrams & graphic concepts: Anne Serup Grove, Maren Wolf, Cosmo Esposito. Print research & coordination: Anne Serup Grove, Marijke Van Hauwaert
Editors: Simon Brind, Nadja Lipsyc, Jukka Särkijärvi, Martine Svanevik - Alana Bennett, Elin Dalstål, Mátyás Hartyándi, Marijke Van Hauwaert, Carolin Heinrich, Kaisa Kangas, Jonaya Kemper, Sergio Losilla, Markus Montola, Ylva Otting, Rasmus Lyngkjær, Juhana Pettersson, Jaakko Rinne, Siri Sandquist, Anne Serup Grove, Melissa Song Loong, Evan Torner.
Reviewers: Simon Brind, Adrian Hon, Nadja Lipsyc, Martine Svanevik - Anne van Barlingen, Gijs van Bilsen, Áron Birtalan, Elin Dalstål, Hazel Anneke Dixon, Laura op de Beke, Kyria Van Gasse, Alessandro Giovannucci, Leandro Godoy, Hanne Grasmo, Lyssa Greywood, Ryan Hart, Mátyás Hartyándi, Marijke Van Hauwaert, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, Mo Holkar, Frederikke S. B. Høyer, Kaisa Kangas, Jonaya Kemper, Mia Kyhn, Ian Knope, Rasmus Lyngkjær, Søren Lyng Ebbehøj, Jamie MacDonald, Markus Montola, Nina Mutik, Vili Von Nissinen, Mirka Oinonen, Kerstin Örtberg, Josephine Rydberg, Anne Serup Grove, Melissa Song Loong, David Thorhauge, Evan Torner, Jessica Townshend, Katrine Wind, Maren Wolf, Laura Wood.
Proofreaders: Lyssa Greywood, Carolin Heinrich, Jorg Rødsjø, David Thorhauge - Karijn van der Heij, Mo Holkar, Adrian Hon, Cosmo Esposito, Mia Kyhn, Marlies Kok, Evan Torner, Emma Voutilainen, Malk Williams
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Contents
- Dedication by Maria Pettersson
- Foreword by Nadja Lipsyc, Anne Serup Grove, Katrin Førde & Thomas Frederick Hozman Tollefsen
- Chapter descriptions
Hands
- River Rafting Design by Katrine Wind
- The Costume Guide - Some tools, a paradox and an accidental manifesto by Anne Serup Grove & Kerstin Örtberg
- Emotionally pacing for larps - How to get the best rollercoaster ride by Elin Dalstål
- Design for young adult players - The relevance of designing for hope, agency and inclusion by Frederikke S. B. Høyer
- How to Start a Larp School by Marijke Van Hauwaert
Forehead
- Performance and Audience in Larp by Laura Wood & Mo Holkar
- Making History: Use of history in a larp context as a mirror of our own society by Siri Sandquist
- The Prosocial Act of Larp Crime, and Some Thoughts on Odysseus by Evan Torner
- What Do Adult Participants Get Out of Larp? A qualitative survey based on SWORDCRAFT Australia by Sam Barta
- Production Models of Nordic Larp by Juhana Pettersson
Eyes
- Bleed Before it was Cool - Early descriptions of dissimulative pretense, their unintended effects, and their impact on the evolution of roleplaying by Mátyás Hartyándi
- Larp As Embodied Art by Nina Mutik & Vili Myrsky Nissinen
- Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters by Adrian Hon
- Experiencing Art From Within by Kaisa Kangas
- The Art-Larp Paradox by Alex Brown
Thorax
- Grief in Larp: Bleeding Through Two Lives by Lyssa Greywood
- The Party Never Ends by Juhana Pettersson
- Christianity is an immersion closet by Julia Greip
- Chronicle: “Daddy, tell me a story?” by Leandro Godoy
- Learning from Bleed by Gijs van Bilsen & Anne van Barlingen
Nerves
- Larp Critique: Why We Need It and How To Write One by Alessandro Giovannucci
- Designing Greener Larps 101 by Søren Lyng Ebbehøj & Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo
- Gender Matters: Thoughts about Accessibility, Inclusivity, and Gender-based Policing by Mirka Oinonen
Skin
- Quit the Mother Teresa Syndrome and the Praise-addiction, and love your work on its own terms by Astrid Cecilie Budolfsen
- ‘I want to hold you close’: An auto-ethnographical discussion of sexual harassment in and around larp in Flanders by Kyria Van Gasse
- Why I hate post-larp compliment threads by Julia Greip
- Administrative and practical superheroes - And how your organization can better support their work by Rasmus Lyngkjær
Otherbody
- You Ate Us; We Thought We Ate You - when playing plays us, and the pleasures of being caused by Áron Birtalan
- Reading Larps: The Larp Experience Through Larp Scripts by Hanne Grasmo
- Games Never Played: or Composting ‘The Antarcticans’ by Laura op de Beke
- Mud in the Machine - On Embodiment for Virtual Players by Josephine Rydberg
Marrow
- Neurospicy Larpers - Role-play as a Method for Working with Neurodivergent Youth with Challenging Behavior Regarding Sexuality by Hanne Grasmo
- Failure Modes in Character Writing by Simon Brind
