Nordic Larp Talks

Category: 2020s

  • Mapping Your Way Out of Awkwardness – Eleanor Saitta

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    The start of play is awkward for many folks — but why? In this talk, we’ll explain what a “map” is and give some tips to help make the start of your next larp work better for you.

    Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, artist, designer, writer, and barbarian making a living and vocation of understanding how complex, trans-disciplinary systems and stories fail and redesigning them to fail better. She has been active in the larp scene since 2011 and has edited two KP books, The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp and What Do We Do When We Play? She currently lives in Finland, where she’s part of the team behind The Attic, a space for queer performance, politics, art, and music.

  • Online Larp Design: Pitfalls and Opportunities – Karolina Soltys

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    Karolina will share what she has learnt about designing online larps: how to avoid the pitfalls specific to online play, but also how to benefit from the unique opportunities it offers.

    Karolina Soltys is a UK-based larp designer creating Nordic-style larps, both in-person and online. Her larps include Our Last Year, The Castle, Together Forever, The Glimpse and Arsenic & Lies.

  • No More Hero: Larp as a Collective Journey – Alessandro Giovannucci

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    We are storytelling animals. We all love stories and we need that. But there is a potential clash between storytelling and experience, between narrative and participation. Is the larp killing storytelling? Or is it reinforcing it? Let’s see if we can learn something from this mess: ideas, reflections and hopefully a weapon against capitalism.

    Alessandro Giovannucci is an Italian award-winner larp designer and theorist. He co-founded Chaos League and wrote the Southern Way manifesto. As an organizer he wrote international larp (Sahara Expedition, Bunker 101, Black Friday) and chamber larp translated in several languages. Alessandro is also a musician and a lecturer, curious, friendly and proudly antifa. And he sucks at writing short bios.

  • Dream a Little Dream with Me – Karin Edman

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    Karin presents how they work with vivid dreams to create their larps and how others also could increase their chance at vivid dreams to use for creative inspiration.

    Karin Edman is a Swedish larp writer and runner who focuses on queer alternative history with supernatural elements. Their most known works are Witches of Ästad Farm and Vedergällningen (The Vengeance). Pronouns she/they.

  • Book of Magic: Vibrant Fragments of Larp Practices – The 2021 Knutepunkt Book Team

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    The editorial team presents the book published in conjunction with the Knutepunkt 2021 conference: Book of Magic: Vibrant Fragments of Larp Practices