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Nordic Larp Talks Tampere 2024
For the third time, we had the pleasure to have the Nordic Larp Talks in Finland. This time in Tampere with 9 great presentations. You can find them all in this article. Please do, the are really worth watching. All the talks Also don’t miss these great photos from the event by Tuomas Puikkonen on…
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Playing to Live Elsewise – Maiju Tarpila
Maiju Tarpila presents the Manifesto of Playing to Live Elsewise, a set of principles for practising larp in the times of the eco-crisis.
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Silently Patching the Magic Circle – Mo Holkar
We talk about larp as taking place within a ‘magic circle’ that separates ‘larp reality’ from the ‘real reality’ outside in the real world. And if everyone larps as intended, then the circle can be maintained smoothly — right? Mo Holkar is here to talk about ways in which participants — and perhaps some types…
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Inclusion in larp: Between challenge and the experience of limits – Björn Butzen
Björn Butzen is talking about the fact that “Diversity is a reality. Inclusion is a choice!” and why we struggle with this. We as a community cannot deny it: there is still a lack of disabled larpers and we have to improve our actions in order to be more inclusive. With this talk Björn wants…
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Re-designing a ready larp – Laura Kröger
More and more larps are being rerun. Laura Kröger talks about redesigning a larp before running it again. When should an existing larp be redesigned and when it shouldn’t. Case example in her talk is Odysseus 2024. Laura Kröger is a Finnish producer and narrative designer with over 20 years of experience for creating larps.…
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Nukes, Pandemics and Teenagers – Martin Nielsen
Since 2018, humanist confirmants have played the larp The Outpost as part of their education on ethics and philosophy. The larp, created by Alibier on a commission basis from the Humanist society in Norway, gives the teenagers tough dilemmas in a post-apocalyptic setting. Martin Nielsen, lead designer in Alibier, tells the story of how they…
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Permission to play: How to design for non-larpers – Gijs van Bilsen
What if…your boss tells you to Larp? That’s the challenge we have when designing serious larps for companies and schools. We played a 2 day serious larp at the United Nations in Geneva with 30 chiefs of staff. Because their boss asked them to do it. So how do you design your larp in such…
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Kitsch, Netflix, and the recuperation of larp – Jamie Macdonald
Jamie MacDonald is here to declare that contemporary Nordic larps and larpers often do things that render them incapable of political efficacy or personal change, wasting the potential of this art form. Jamie MacDonald is a stand-up comedian, queer performance maker, and PhD candidate in performance studies. He has for over a decade been a…
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Our black blind spot: A call to climate action – Søren Lyng Ebbehøj
Climate change represents the gravest challenge yet to face mankind. International larping — however progressive and beneficial in other scopes — mostly contributes to the crisis: not the solution. This is a call to action. The speaker (Søren) has asked to add the following corrections: The thoughts presented in the video are based on the…
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The Solmukohta 2024 Book: Liminal Encounters – Kaisa Kangas
In this talk, the editor-in-chief of this year’s Solmukohta book, Liminal Encounters: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp. In this talk, she tells you why you should read the book. Kaisa Kangas is the editor-in-chief of this year’s Solmukohta book, Liminal Encounters, and the 2016 book Larp Politics. Currently, she is writing a non-fiction…