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|name = Johanna Koljonen<br />
|image=JohannaKoljonen2010.jpg<br />
|nationality=Finland<br />
|organization={{unbulleted list|[[Nordic Larp Talks]]|[[Knutepunkt]]}}<br />
|website={{URL|johannakoljonen.wordpress.com}}<br />
|citizenship=Sweden|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1978|06|17}}|years_active=1995-present}}<br />
'''Johanna Koljonen''' is an experience designer and media analyst, with a continuing career as a writer, broadcaster, author and critic. She is a popular lecturer on larp and topics related to narrative participation. She was lead editor of and a significant contributor to the 2019 volume Larp Design. Her groundbreaking larp criticism, in essays like “Eye-Witness to the Illusion: The Impossibility of 360° Role-Playing” and “The Dragon Was the Least of it: Larp As Ephemera and Ruin” are widely quoted in the field. She is he co-author of the book-length larp autopsy [[Dragonbane - The Legacy|Dragonbane – The Legacy]]. She also won the innovator category of the The Swedish Grand Journalism Prize of 2011.<br />
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Johanna co-founded the [[Nordic Larp Talks]] together with [[Andie Nordgren]] and [[Petter Karlsson]] and has hosted them since 2010.<br />
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==Larps==<br />
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===Larpwright (designer/co-designer)===<br />
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*''Fenriskampanjen'', ca 1996-1999<br />
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===Additional Design===<br />
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*[[Inside Hamlet|''Inside Hamlet'']], 2015, 2017, 2018, conceptual design; 2018, workshop design<br />
*''[[BAPHOMET]]'', additional design<br />
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===Executive producer===<br />
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*[[Inside Hamlet|''Inside Hamlet'']], 2018<br />
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===Character Writing===<br />
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*[[Hamlet Inifrån|''Hamlet Inifrån'']], 2002<br />
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==Lectures==<br />
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*Safety and Calibration in Larp, Larpwriter Summerschool, July 2016<br />
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==Short Talks==<br />
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLisM8wqUhQv3NRxtGXLrp5kWL6NtGGHbt&v=qHKLE5GOBLY Loyalty to World – Fader Talk], Larpwriter Summer School, July 2016<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSoJhfmcfc Pressure on Player – Fader Talk], Larpwriter Summer School, July 2016<br />
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==Editor==<br />
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*Assistant editor, [[What Do We Do When We Play?|''What Do We Do When We Play?'']], 2020.<br />
*[[Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences|''Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences'']], Bifrost 2019, with Jaakko Stenros, Anne Serup Grove, Aina Skjønsfjell, and Elin Nielsen.<br />
*Founder, with Jaakko Stenros, and editor in chief of the ''[[panclou]]'' role-playing game fanzine (1997-), which had a formative effect on the early developments of the live role-playing theory movement in the Nordic Countries.<br />
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==Author==<br />
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*'Carolus Rex. The Flagship of Enclosed Space Opera.' in Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds: ''Nordic Larp'', Fëa Livia 2010.<br />
*'En Stilla Middag Med Familjen. First Person Bourgeois Drama.' in Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds: ''Nordic Larp'', Fëa Livia 2010.<br />
*'Dragonbane. Tangible Fantasy, Plausible Magic.' (with Tiinaliisa Multamäki) in Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds: ''Nordic Larp'', Fëa Livia 2010.<br />
*Introduction to the catalogue for Game Continent at the Aros Modern Museum in Aarhus. Game Continent was a 2010 work by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum.<br />
*’The Dragon Was the Least of It: Dragonbane and LARP as Ephemera and Ruin’, Montola & Stenros (eds): ''Playground Worlds. Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games''. Ropecon ry, 2008.<br />
*‘Eye-Witness to the Illusion. On the Impossibility of 360° Role-Playing’, Donnis, Gade, & Thorup (eds): ''Lifelike''. Knudepunkt 2007, 2007.<br />
*‘I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul. Lessons from ''Hamlet''’, Montola & Stenros (eds): ''Beyond Role and Play. Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing the Imagination''. Ropecon ry 2004.<br />
*‘Why do bad LARPS happen to good people?’, Gade, Thorup & Sander (eds): ''As Larp Grows Up. Theory and Methods in Larp'', Projektgruppen KP03, 2003.<br />
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Contributor to [[panclou]], [[Roolipelaaja]] and [[Playground Magazine]].<br />
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