Playing Reality – Knutepunkt 2010

PREFACE

The Workshop

• • Russian Larp History. The View from Saint Petersburg
  • Larp of a Thousand Faces. Applying Mythic Structure to Larp
  • Stories in Larp Revisited. Authoring, Management and Experiences
  • 8 Things I’d Like to Know. When Deciding to Go to Your Larp
  • 6 Common Mistakes. In Live Role-playing Design
  • Culture and Social Status in Larping
  • Larp Campaign Director’s A–Z
  • This Book, Replayed. An Exploration into Instruments of Play

The Assembly Hall

• • Projekt Prometheus. Alternate Reality Games in Civic Education
  • 1943. An Educational Larp Model?
  • Children of a Freedom Clock

The Tower

• • An Essay on Rapture
  • Action Translated to Music
  • Self-fulfillment

The Study

• • Larp-Idealism. Or: How Schiller Invented Larp
  • There You Are, There You Ain’t. On Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
  • Contra-moral of Play. From Ethics of Game Toward Ethics of Playing
  • Reality is an Interpretation of Fantasy
  • Playing Against the Modern World? Role-playing Games in Late Modernity
  • How We Do Larps with Words. Characteristics of Larp Discourse
  • The Manifesto Manifesto

The Office

• • Playfulness vs. Structure. Learning from the Municipal Challenge
  • Time to Emigrate. A Road to Happiness?
  • Participatory education. From Conditioned Response and Resistance to Active Learning