Tag: Nordic Larp Talks
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Adding Larp to a Drama Teacher’s Curriculum – Year 1
Lindsay Wolgel is an professional actor and edu-larp enthusiast. She is currently the middle school drama teacher at a charter school in NYC. Learn about the ways she incorporated larp into her curriculum this past year, via in-class parties, a classroom podcast, creative writing prompts and more!
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Nordic Larp Talks Malmö 2018
This years Nordic Larp Talks are out! You can watch them all in the embedded playlist below, or go over to Nordic Larp Talks to get some more context and background. Nordic Larp Talks Oslo 2017 As a bonus, we can also present Nordic Larp Talks Oslo 2017! They are all in the embedded playlist
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Nordic Larp Talks Helsinki 2016
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Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the tradition of Nordic Larp. This year Nordic Larp Talks will be hosted in Helsinki, Tuesday March 8th at 19:00 and you are of course more than welcome to join us! The event will be held at Aalto University School
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State of Siege – A Palestinian-Finnish larp project
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Last August the larp Till Death Do us Part was organized as a cooperation between Norwegian and Palestian larp designers. It was the first bigger Palestian larp project and since then many projects has has happened in and in connection to the emerging Palestinian larp community.
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Nordic Larp Talks: How Can we Know what Actually Happened in a Larp
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
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Nordic Larp Talks: Bleed: How Emotions Affect Role-Playing Experiences
This talk explains the concept of bleed in role-playing games & advocates for awareness of the phenomenon & discussion on emotional content in games.
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Nordic Larp Talks: No Training can Replace Experience, or Can it?
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
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Nordic Larp Talks: The Mixing Desk of Larp
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,
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Nordic Larp Talks: Three Ways to Make Games More Inclusive
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),
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Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Welcome to Larp. Let’s Play
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