Susanne Vejdemo

Susanne Vejdemo
Born	1982 (age 41–42)
Nationality	Sweden
Organization	Sverok
Website	susanne.vejdemo.se

Susanne Vejdemo is a linguist, larper, and larpwright. She often writes games involving politics or ethical dilemmas.

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.
• 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."

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.
• Play to Lift, Not Just to Lose, 2018. Knutpunkt proceedings.