Once Upon a Nordic Larp… Twenty Years of Playing Stories – Knutepunkt 2017

Introduction

Yesterday

• Let’s Larp This!
• All Our Yesterdays
• A Tale of Knutepunkt Theorycrafting
• Response to J. Tuomas Harviainen
• Three Roads (of Translation) Not Taken
• The Classical Roots of Larp

Today

• Hamlet, Vampires and the Italian Alps
• Ludo-narrative Dissonance and Harmony in Larps
• Pre-larp Communication
• Keeping Volunteers Alive
• The Workshop Pyramid
• Beyond Play
• Response to Simo Järvelä and Karete Jacobsen Meland
• Reply to Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand
• ’Sing in Me, Muse, and Through Me Tell the Story…’
• Do You Want to Play Ball?
• Designing for Emotions
• Playing the Stories of Others
• History, Herstory and Theirstory: For Thought
• Body Playground Framework
• Playing in Love
• Telling Character Stories
• Making Heroes
• Playing Around the Event
• Response to Charlotte Ashby
• Reply to Matt Pennington
• The Absence of Disabled Bodies in Larp
• Food for Thought: Narrative Through Food at Larps
• YouTube and Larp
• Character-based Design and Narrative Tools in the French Style Romanesque Larp
• Loyalty to Character
• Response to Charles B. Nielsen
• Reply to Martine Svanevik
• Moment-based Story Design
• Curious Pastimes
• Will to Live
• Context, Context, Context
• Larp Tourism
• Tensions Between Transmedia Fandom and Live-Action Role-Play
• Meanwhile in the South
• Tell Us a Story
• Response to Ian Andrews
• Reply to Simon Brind

Tomorrow

• On Ripping Off and Selling Out
• Larp in the Year 2037
• Thinking Outside the Black Box
• Beyond Playing to Lose and Narrativism
• An Invitation to Dance
• Art and Larp
• Larp and I — Til Death Do Us Part