Wizardry 101 – Agata ‘Świstak’ Lubańska
Wizardry 101 is a talk devoted to all who treated larp scenography as a nuisance or something that happens by accident. Agata “Świstak” Lubańska will try to destroy some of those stereotypes and also...
View ArticlePractical Applications of Lovecraftian Horror – Olle Nyman
There are more adaptions of Lovecraft stories and his horror mythis than there are originals. Olle Nyman will talk about a how they tried to bring some of them alive in different larp-settings. Olle...
View ArticleExperimental Anthropology – Kaisa Kangas
Can larp be used to test and explore anthropological ideas? In her talk, Kaisa Kangas takes a look at the question. Kaisa Kangas is a Finnish larp designer. She has been making and playing larps since...
View ArticleLarp and – Eleanor Saitta
Nordic larp and tools we’ve developed to design and understand games provide a unique toolkit for understanding the cultural and emotional impact of systems that bridge the social and the technical,...
View ArticleMaking Mandatory Larps for non players – Miriam Lundqvist
Every year, Miriam and her colleagues from LajvVerkstaden runs more than a hundred days of larping. Most of these larps are done with players who have to participate and have never larped before. In...
View ArticleFraming Art with Larp – Ebba Petren
Ebba Petrén works as director, script writer and performer in the field of performing arts. Her works in arts collective Nyxxx is participatory and do often use tech to design play. In this talk she...
View ArticlePromoting Larp in New Places – Riad Walid Mustafa
Larp in Palestine is young but the movement is quickly growing, and not only within the country. In this talk Riad Walid Mustafa talks about what happended in 2014, where they went and what plans lies...
View ArticleTheory of Axes – Maria Raczynska
A Russian larp theory that aims to help larpwriters structure and focus the players’ storyline. It helps to understand what kind of experiences the players take out of the larp and how they are...
View ArticleCommunication Remember the Larper – Massi Hannula
The Nordic Larp community is good at communicating to the world about the hot issues in Nordic Larp. In her talk Massi Hannula is giving her Communication Manifesto on larp organisers’ most important...
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Girls in Armour – a Danish Feminist Movement – Ann Eriksen
In 2009 17 women made an all female regiment for the Danish game Warlarp V. What started as an attempt to fit into a “mans” world ended as serious and important input in the Danish debate about...
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Nordic Larp Talks Helsinki 2016
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...
View ArticleThe Solmukohta Books 2016 – Kaisa Kangas and Jukka Särkijärvi
Editors Kaisa Kangas and Jukka Särkijärvi present the two 2016 Solmukohta (Knutepunkt) books: Larp Realia, and Larp Politics (both available as free pdf downloads). Jukka highlights the varied content...
View ArticleMonsters as Metaphors – Mike Pohjola
Finnish transmedia developer and larp designer Mike Pohjola talks about Baltic Warriors, a larp campaign of seven games in seven countries about the Baltic sea in the summer of 2015. The larps were...
View ArticleThe Empire Larps Back – Larson Kasper and Kristina Leipoldt
Tina Leipoldt and Larson Kasper introduce a project where they together with Palestinian larp designer colleagues taught larp design to Syrian refugees in Turkey. They talk about lessons learned (like...
View ArticleLarp Bouldering – Maury Brown
Larp Bouldering: the courage to take your own path over the wall At the start of a larp, players are often standing at the bottom of the bouldering wall, looking for viable paths up and across it, for...
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Nordic Larp Talks Oslo 2017
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 and Knutebook...
View ArticleExclusive and Inclusive Worlds: Gender Edition – Jamie MacDonald
Jamie MacDonald is a stand-up comedian, writer, and player of many larps, who has written frequently on the subject of performativity and performance in larp. Usually stand-up comedians don’t use words...
View ArticleThe Chamberlarp Revolution – Martin Nielsen
Martin Nielsen runs Alibier, an Oslo-based company that makes educational larps. He is an enthusiastic member of the black box larp scene, and is the head organizer of Grenselandet chamberlarp festival...
View ArticleNordic Black Box Larps From Belarus – Masha Karachun and Zhenja Karachun
Masha and Zhenja Karachun are larpers and larp designers from Belarus. They have participated as speakers and facilitators at Larpwriter Summer School 2015 and Larporatory 2015/2016. Currently Masha...
View ArticleA World of Nordic Darkness – Martin Ericsson
Martin Ericsson has spent 25 years designing, writing and running participatory art ranging from MMOs, interactive TV series, transmedia games and participatory Shakespeare adaptations to massive...
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