Larp in general, and Nordic style larps in particular, is often claimed to be an artistic practice, a frontier of participatory arts. However, discourse on larp by larp organizers, larp participants, and game studies researchers have, in recent years, started to frame larp-making primarily as a design practice. Let’s discuss what this hegemony of design thinking does to our practice.
This session opens with a reading of the communique "Against Design" and ends with a discussion on larp as an artistic practice.