Category: Theory
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Larp as Magical Practice: Finding the Power-From-Within
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Larp has the potential to make meaningful change by helping us expand our imagination and empowerment.
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Three Forms of LAOGs
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This article presents a categorization of LAOGs – depending on how they make use of the communication channels in place. It identifies three different forms: The Diegetic Call, The Invisible Call, and The Metaphorical Call.
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A Ramble in Five Scenes
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How age, life experience, and the knowledge you have achieved become part of your larp.
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The Psychotherapeutic Magic of Larp
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Connecting larp as a tool for personal development with theories from psychology and techniques from drama therapy.
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It Wasn’t Me
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“It’s not me, it’s my character.” Definitions of alibi, the ways in which it is emancipating, and the situations when alibi is not enough.
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Beauty in Larp
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What makes a thing beautiful to do? In this text Jaakko Stenros and James Lórien MacDonald explore a general aesthetic theory for larp.
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Labor and Play
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Have you gone to a larp requiring more work than your day job? Have you done work in a larp and been compensated with fictional resources rather than money?
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The Paradox of Inclusivity
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Trying to provide a clearer vision of what inclusivity does, and can, mean; as well as offer practical advice to help us build more inclusive communities.
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Wyrding the Self
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Wyrding the self is the sustained effort to decolonize your body from the mythical norm, and begin the process of identity alteration.
