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  • Nordic Larp Talks: How Can we Know what Actually Happened in a Larp


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    Is there a way to understand what actually happened in a larp, and can we tell a single more coherent story about how a larp played out? This talk is about techniques to study larp.

    Annika Waern (Ph.D) is a professor and game researcher at the department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has a long-standing experience of studying games that play out in the physical world, including but not limited to larp. Together with Markus Montola, and Jaakko Stenros she is author of Pervasive Games: Theory and Design (2009).

    Annika’s website:
    Annika Waern

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  • Nordic Larp Talks: Bleed: How Emotions Affect Role-Playing Experiences


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    This talk will explain the phenomenon of bleed in role-playing games and advocate for greater awareness of the phenomenon and increased discussion surrounding the emotional content of role-playing games.

    Sarah Lynne Bowman (Ph.D.) teaches as adjunct faculty in English and Communication for several institutions including The University of Texas at Dallas. McFarland Press published her dissertation in 2010 as The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity. Together with Aaron Vanek, Bowman co-edited The Wyrd Con Companion 2012, a collection of essays on larp and related phenomena. Her current researchinterests include examining social conflict and bleed within role-playing communities, applying Jungian theory to role-playing studies, studying the benefits of edu-larp, and comparing the enactment of role-playing characters with other creative phenomena such as drag performance.

    Sarah’s website:
    Sarah Lynne Bowman

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  • Nordic Larp Talks: No Training can Replace Experience, or Can it?

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    Larp is great in building strange realities, far-away worlds and fantasies unheard of. But can it also be used to recreate authentic situations from real life to enable development workers to not only know about intercultural competence, but maybe even develop it before really coming in touch with a foreign culture?

    Stefan Deutsch plays and facilitates larps for nearly 20 years, co-wrote one of Germany’s most controversial larp rules system and was one of the organizers of the MittelPunkt larp conference in Germany. He lives in Germany and Tanzania and works as a consultant for a software company and larp.

    Check out Stefans website here:
    Reality check

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  • Nordic Larp Talks: The Mixing Desk of Larp

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    This talk explores how this can make larp design easier to teach as a game design discipline. It also helps designers become more aware of the default positions of their larp design.

    Martin Eckhoff Andresen is a larper, organizer and game designer from Oslo, Norway. He has been involved with Fantasiforbundet’s “Larpocracy” projects in Belarus, that explore the role of games as a tool for informal education. He has edited Playing the Learning Game – A practical introduction to educational roleplaying (2012). At daytime, he’s finishing a master thesis in economics.

    Read more about the Mixing Desk at the Nordic Larp Wiki:
    http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/The_Mixing_Desk_of_Larp

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  • Nordic Larp Talks: Three Ways to Make Games More Inclusive

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    How do you, as a game designer, work to get a diverse group of participants to feel welcome and included? Lars Nerback talks from his experience in working with educational larps in schools, and gives three examples for making inclusive games.

    Lars Nerback is one of the owners of LajvVerkstaden (”The Larp Workshop” directly translated), a Swedish company that designs and runs educational larps for children, teenagers and adults. Apart from his work as game designer and project manager, Lars is deeply involved in issues of social justice and equality.

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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Welcome to Larp. Let’s Play

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    In this talk Jana Pouchlá describes some basic arrangements that make new larpers feel safe and enjoy the game. She also argues why newbies sometimes are better larpers than super experienced players.

    Jana Pouchlá is a professional lecturer of larp and soft skills. Her favourite challenge is to connect these two worlds as larp is a great way to guide adults towards participation and active learning. Pouchla has an education from theatre university and currently works in the larp company Court of Moravia.

    Here is the movie Jana shows in her presentation. Make sure to turn on the English captions if you don’t speak Czech:

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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013: What does Nordic Larp mean?

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    Now there is something at stake. In this talk one of the editors of the Nordic Larp book explains what he thinks the term means, where it came from, who gets to define it, and what is so damn special about it anyway.

    Jaakko Stenros (M.Soc.Sc.) is a game researcher at the Game Research Lab at the University of Tampere, Finland. Currently he is working on a dissertation on the limits of games. Together with Markus Montola, Jaakkohas edited three books on larp, Playground Worlds (2008), Beyond Role and Play (2004) Nordic Larp (2010). They are also authors of Pervasive Games: Theory and Design (2009).

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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Knutepunkt 2013 Book Project Presentation

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    Larps, people, theories and ideas are crossing international borders, and we want to know what it’s like! In what ways is it encouraging us to explore our own, personal preconceptions and habits? What does it all look like? The two editors will be interviewed by Johanna Koljonen, explaining what kind of book they set out to do – and showing what it has become.

    Karete Jacobsen Meland is a larper, organizer and now editor, from Oslo. Currently living in Trondheim, she is supposed to be studying towards becoming a clinical psychologist, while being a part of “the gaffa” (organizer crew) at the Larp Factory in Trondheim, an actress at the students’ theatre and writing a play for the student festival UKA-13.

    Katrine Øverlie Svela is the other editor and the graphic designer of this year’s book. She comes from Oslo, but studies industrial design in Trondheim, where she also is one of the organizers at the Larp Factory. Currently Katti writes a children’s play for the student festival UKA-13, organizes seks:førti about design and architecture, and dreams of a larpful summer.

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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013

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    Soon it’s time for this years edition of the Nordic Larp Talks. They will be held during the event A Week in Norway which is an extended part of the Knutepunkt 2013 conference.

    The organisers describe the talks like this:

    Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the Nordic tradition of live action roleplaying games.

    The talks will be held on Wednesday April 17 at Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29 in Oslo.

    You can read more about the individual talks and see them streamed lived here:
    http://nordiclarptalks.org/

    The starting time for the live stream will be the following for different time zones:

    20:00 CEST (UTC+2 hours)
    Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech republic, France

    21:00 EEST (UTC+3 hours)
    Finland, Palestine, Israel

    22:00 MSK (UTC+4 hours)
    Russia – Moscow

    19:00 BST (UTC+1 hour)
    United Kingdom

    14:00 EDT (UTC-4 hours)
    U.S.A. – New York

    11:00 PDT (UTC-7 hours)
    U.S.A. – California

  • Knutepunkt 2013 Book Preview

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    This years Knutepunkt book is available in a preview format without final layout. The production team has this to say on the matter:

    Finally! The texts from the four anthologies that together constitute this year’s Knutepunkt book project are now available through knutepunkt.org. They have been edited by Karete J. Meland and Katrine Ø. Svela, and are published by Fantasiforbundet.

    The published file is a layoutless version of the final books. All the texts can now be read and explored, enabling you to prepare questions and input for our contributors, before Knutepunkt hits us all. On April 17th, the same day as Nordic Larp Talks and the official book launch, the complete and final version of the books will be made available as well. They are filled with small surprises and editorial choices that we hope will please all of you. The graphic design is by Katrine Ø. Svela, and the beautiful illustrations are made by Rebecca Egebjerg.

    The books hold papers on visions, reflections, design choices and experiences. With contributions from large parts of Europe, the US and even Brazil, all we can do is watch, share and enjoy how larp is crossing borders. We hope that the texts included this year will help us move even further, and that you will continue to keep the ball rolling.

    We are looking forward to hear your comments and reactions, and to meet a lot of you in just a few days.

    Read the book preview here:
    http://www.knutepunkt.org/page/book/

    Read more about earlier Knutepunkt books in the Nordic Larp Wiki:
    http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt-books