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Larp Chemistry – Laura Wood
Larp Chemistry is difficult to define and means different things to different people. This talk attempts to look at what it could be, and whether we can create it. Laura Wood (she/they) has designed several larps which have run in several countries throughout Europe, including Here Comes a Candle, and Inside. She is an organizer…
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Napping with Purpose – Frida Lindegren
The world and the larp community have been through a lot lately. In her talk, Frida Lindegren talks about how we can slow down and explore how we can play and design for rest. Frida Lindegren is a Swedish psychologist, experience designer, and larper.
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Burn Out and Fade Away: Larp Organizing Can be Tough – Mo Holkar
Organizing larps and larp-related events can leave people prone to burnout. This talk looks at why this happens, and how participants, and organizers themselves, can try to avoid it. Mo Holkar is a UK larper, larp designer, and larp organizer. He works within the design collective Larps on Location and was one of the lead…
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The Ethics of Storytelling – Chris Bergstresser
As larpers, we have an intimate control over the stories we choose to tell. In this talk, Chris Bergstresser asks what responsibility we bear for the stories we end up telling. Chris Bergstresser has been a larper and larp designer for decades. They’ve been active in the Nordic Larp community since 2015. Their next project…
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Reading Larps – Hanne Grasmo
Larps exist outside the ephemeral reality of the activity of larping. Larps are published as books and archived as PDFs. In these formats, larps can be read, without playing them, if you have the literacy. In the spring of 2022, Hanne Grasmo browsed through 2303 documented larps in search of European larp scripts published in…
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The Lion, the Witch and the Workshop – Olivia Fischer
Workshop design is an essential part of larp design. In her talk, Olivia Fischer shares some thoughts on workshop design from the perspective of an education specialist. Olivia Fischer is an Austrian larp designer, lecturer, and researcher at the University College Of Teacher Education Vienna. She has been designing larps for more than 20 years…
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Pimp My Magic School – Mike Pohjola
In magic school larps, kids play young witches and wizards who go to school to study alchemy, telepathy, healing, runes, and other supernatural subjects. In his talk, Mike Pohjola talks about how his local magic school works – and how last Saturday, they tried something a little different. Mike Pohjola is a Finnish novelist, playwright,…
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What Knutepedia Actually Taught Us – Jamie Macdonald
During the pandemic, Jamie MacDonald and Jaakko Stenros ran a series of Zoom-based Nordic larp virtual pub quizzes, called Knutepedia. We ended up learning some things about our community in the process. Jamie MacDonald arrived at Nordic larp through the theater and performance route, and over the last decade has written extensively on the potentials…
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I Was Dangerous Player and I’m Really Sorry – Ria Böök
We all make mistakes. But what to do when you are the one who puts people in real physical danger. Ria Böök tells about she being the dangerous player and what she learned from it. Ria Böök is a Finnish player and organizer. She organized her first larp in 2002. Sine then, she has been…