Liminal Encounters
Do you want to know what is going on in larp and where the discourse is going? Read the Solmukohta 2024 book, Liminal Encounters: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp. The book contains opinions and debate, concrete tips on how to make larps, and academic style analysis. At 400 pages, with 58 contributors, it both delivers fresh perspectives and further develops established theories.
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| Country | Finland |
| Published | 2024 |
Contents
- Introduction by Kaisa Kangas
Design and Analysis
- Against Design by Andrea Nordwall & Gabriel Widing
- Readdressing Larp as a Commodity: How Do We Define Value When the Customer Is Always Right? by Usva Seregina
- Accepting Limits: The One-Hour Online Role-Play Experience by Evan Torner
- Naked at Nordic Larp by Karin Edman & Julia Greip
- Strings and Rails: NPCs vs. Supporting Characters by Karolina Fido-Fairfax
- Designing Power Dynamics Between Adults and Children in Larps by Frederikke S. B. Høyer
- The Hated Children of Nordic Larp – Why We Need to Improve on Workshops and Debriefs by Sandy Bailly
- Designing the Designer by Juhana Pettersson
- The Interaction Engine: A Method to Engage Your Participants in Meaningful Encounters by Bjarke Pedersen & Eleanor Saitta
- The General Problem of Indexicality in Larp Design by Jaakko Stenros, Eleanor Saitta & Markus Montola
Experience and Critique
- Did We Wake? by Eirik Fatland
- Searching for Meaning in House of Craving by Syksy Räsänen
- Kickass Rococovid Kitsch: A Review of Disgraceful Proposals by Thomas B
- On Co-creating Experiences: iFoL by Katharina Kramer
- 17 Years, 18 Runs, Broken Records: Why Krigslive Just Won't Quit by Astrid Budolfsen
- Odysseus: In Search of a Clockwork Larp by Markus Montola
- Extinction Now: Coming to Terms with Dissolution in End(less) Story by Syksy Räsänen
- Seeds of Hope: How to Intertwine Larp and Ecological Activism by Elli Leppä
- The Manifesto of Playing to Live Elsewise by Maiju Tarpila
Players and Play
- Experience vs. Imagination – Effects of Player Age by Chris Hartford
- Words of Advice from an Old Witch to Aging Larpers by Inge-Mette Petersen
- Six Levels of Larp Participation by Josefin Westborg, Janusz Maxe & Gabriel March
- A Short Guide to Fix Your Larp Experience by Alessandro Giovannucci
- Good Cakes, Bad Cakes: Character and Contact Design as a Factor of Personal Game Experience by Niina Niskanen
- Player Limitations and Accessibility in Larp by Beatrix Livesey-Stephens & Bjørn-Morten Vang Gundersen
- Inclusion in Larp: Between Challenge and the Experience of Limits] by Björn Butzen
- How I Learned to Stop Faking It and Be Real by Anna Erlandsson
Borderlands of Larp
- Larp: the Colonist by Mátyás Hartyándi
- Remember That Time… We Tried to Film a Larp by Sophia Seymour & Martine Svanevik
- The Cliff – A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Larp Methods for Artistic Research Practice by Katri Lassila
- SIGNA’s Performance Installations: Walking the Liminal Border Between Larp and Theatre by Rasmus Lyngkjær
- Actual Plays of Live-Action Online Games (LAOGs) by Gerrit Reininghaus & Adrian Hermann
- Comments on VR, Larp, Technology, Creation by Nadja Lipsyc
- Innovations in the Drama Classroom with Larp by Lindsay Wolgel
- Larping Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s: A Look Into the Birth of Performance Studies and Experiential Ethnography by Mike Pohjola
- Possibilities of Historical Larp: Court of Justice in 17th-century Finland by Jenni Lares
Community and Narratives
- Challenging the Popularized Narrative of History by Laura Wood & Mo Holkar
- History is Our Playground – On Playing with People’s Lives by Kristel Nyberg
- Tears in the Rain by Sebastian Utbult
- This Larp Sucked – and Everyone Should Get to Read About It by Thomas B
- Debauchery: Meh by Anonymous
- Nordic Larp is not ”International Larp”: What is KP for? by Anonymous
- In the Limits Below the Line – An Interview with Brazilian Larpers by Leandro Godoy
- "We won't stop the larp if it's just an air raid." Organising Larps During War in Ukraine and Palestine by Maria Pettersson
Risks, Dangers and Brave Spaces
- Trust and Calibration by Juhana Pettersson
- How to Get Safely Through the Woods by Anonymous
- Flagging Is Flawed by Maury Brown & Nina Teerilahti
- Rules, Trust, and Care: the Nordic Larper’s Risk Management Toolkit by Sergio Losilla
- Risk Mitigation Techniques for Organisers by David Thorhauge
- Please Stop – an Occupational Therapist’s Advice on How to Avoid Burnout by Taro Friman
- Will Ethical Demands Limit or Liberate Larp? by Mikael Kinanen
- Rethinking the Danger of Player Age Gaps by Ruska Kevätkoski