Programme

Throughout the years, I have gotten invaluable advice from more experienced organizers than myself, and I've learnt hard-earned lessons from my failures. This is a program item where I give advice to my past self about design, practical organizing, dealing with participants, social pressure and more.

What happens when larp based on Vampire: The Masquerade is reinvented according to the tenets of Nordic Larp? Larps based on Vampire have been enormously popular since their introduction in the Nineties, often based on the official Mind's Eye Theatre rules. Starting with the Vampire: The Masquerade larp End of the Line in 2016 in Helsinki, this traditional method of designing Vampire larps has been joined by another, collaborative design style.

We've now had 10 years of Vampire larps created according to this new philosophy, such as End of the Line, Enlightenment in Blood, Convention of Thorns and Saturnalia. There's even a book about creating this style of Vampire larp, War of Ages. What have we learned, what has been done, and what is it about Vampire anyway that makes all this possible?

97 Poets of Revachol is a larp inspired by the world of Disco Elysium. It revolves around community, art, whimsy, and the bizarre. Yet at its core, it is fundamentally about politics and polarisation. How can one create political play that includes 118 characters and a wide spectrum of ideologies? Can hope survive in a game with a scripted hopelessly polarised endpoint? Furthermore, can political play actually be fun, hardcore, and dare we say… DISCO?
In this talk, we offer snapshots and lessons learned from four runs of 97 Poets and illustrate how we managed to create a vibrant, authentic political landscape in a game where even the black mould on the walls hides secret conspiracies. There will be statistics, there will be glitter, and there will, inevitably, be taxidermy.

This session grows from a truth many of us carry: after years of playing, helping, and organizing LARPs, we’ve all gathered moments that didn’t land right, feedback that vanished, changes that never came, silences that felt like answers. That weight? It doesn’t have to stay heavy. It can become wisdom.

This is a space for all kinds of LARP organizers to share how you’ve turned lessons learned into action. What did you change? What did you keep? How did you hold yourself, or your team, accountable? No shame, no blame. Just honest reflection and shared growth.

I’ll share my own journey, including founding Liminal Domain, as one example of building from frustration, not despite it. Not to offer fixes, but to show how grief, pettiness, and anger, when named and shaped, can become the foundation for better games.

Come with your stories. Leave with new ways to build LARPs that listen, adapt, and grow, because the most resilient games are the ones that learn.

Creating custom light colors and animations is easier and cheaper than you think! Learn how to create animated light that you can control with your phone and that reacts to your players - no coding or soldering, no previous knowledge or tech-savvyness needed!

Through the lence of the book "The Anatomy of Story 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller" by John Truby we can see larp deisgn in a new way. What could film theory and their perspective on storytelling tell us about storytelling in larp?

I don't like seeing I have a love relation with an older male player at a larp--but it is not for the reason you think it is...

The aim of this talk is to present personal experiences and anecdotes from others about issues related to younger female players possibly being excluded from certain types of play (mostly romantic) because of their age.
The talk will use the starting point of my own experience, talking about my feelings and experiences with playing certain relations at larp mostly with older male players, and how I have had repeated experiences of not being played with. My hypothesis is that this has mostly been based around ooc age differences. Then I would like to explore possibly why this has happened, through using anecdotes from both other younger female players who have experienced the same as well as statements from older male players about why this could be and how they experience it from their point of view.

I hope to achieve a conversation about this phenomenon that I believe has been around for quite some time now, and that speaking up about my experiences with it could lead to some possible change--or even just a bigger awareness of the situation to begin with. In my experience, people fear talking about age, but also have a lot of opinions about it, which is why I want to open up a part of this conversation through this talk.

This is a talk about the friendships we create through larps and how we sustain them.

Host Rebel Rehbinder sits with a panel of experienced larp organisers to discuss the art and craft of creating larps, while they attempt to complete rounds of chicken wings coated in increasingly spicy hot sauces.

We will talk about not-obvious, but useful approaches of using AI for larps. Some approaches are controversial, let's talk about where using AI can and can't be done, and where it should be explicitly mentioned.

I’ve been playing and running LARPs in the UK since 1993. These include large fest systems, midsize linear based larps and small intense bespoke larps. In that time, much has changed, mainly for the better. If we reflect on the past, we can learn for the future. Why aren’t things perfect now? We should look at where we came from.

This talk discusses the evolution of larp in the UK and how things have improved, including things I did that I would not do now.

It is of interest to younger players who have not lived through these developments and to older players who might like to reminisce or to reflect on how much their hobby has changed.

A panel discussion where young larpers get to take up space and talk about their thoughts and experiences of larping and organization. Talk about what they think is important and what older people should be aware of. A chance to learn more about what the younger generation thinks, wants and desires.

Larping is political and we're all anarchists, whether we realize it or not. The Nordic Larp community exists and have thrived and grown over the last 30 years, because larp cannot be commodified and we act and work without central authorities. Come, listen and discuss if you ever think about why Nordic Larp has grown to be such a large part of so many peoples lives.

This presentation explores concepts from kink culture–such as top drop–in tandem with concepts and tools from the intimacy choreography and intimacy coordination fields. When combined by larp designers for larpers, these concepts and tools invite a paradigm shift related to how we perceive and negotiate individualized needs and care throughout the larp from workshopping to deroling. Further, this presentation offers a toolkit that larp designers can implement to supplement their understanding of different types of drop and how these distinct experiences of drop are impacted by the characters we play and by play patterns that provide or deny support on-game, as well as tools for supporting aftercare for villainous players.

This talk will summarize early results from a study conducted by the Horizon Europe Larpocracy project assessing the democratic skills and values of larpers within adjacent and sometimes overlapping national and international larp communities. In Spring 2025, we sent out a survey collecting data on demographics, larp experience, other subcultural activities, and political engagement and beliefs. We also gathered data assessing participants’ self-reported perspective taking and empathy skills, as well as their values related to democratic deliberation.

Additionally, we asked participants to list larps they considered democracy-themed, identifying mechanics, narrative techniques, and other key factors they found particularly effective in the design, as well as areas for improvement. We also asked them to list activities they considered inherently democratic and assess how well these larps integrated these activities, if at all. Finally, we asked participants to share what we call their golden moments in democracy-themed larps.

While such data cannot fully answer the questions of whether larpers are inherently primed for democratic engagement, it paints a picture of participants who are highly passionate about questions related to freedom, justice, and care for others different from themselves.

A celebration of Aries birthdays! Come be celebrated if your birthday falls between March 21-April 19 and to celebrate those whose birthdays fall during that time if yours does not. Revel in the passion and vitality of the Aries Zodiac! Join us as we celebrate another year of life completed, and a new year to look forward to!

Shortform vs. Longform Larp: Do Artistic Goals Differ?

In contemporary art larp, shortform experiences—such as blackbox and chamber larps—have become highly visible. Their accessibility and compatibility with established art venues have led many to equate art larp with shortform design. Yet longform larps are also created and presented as art, often through sustained, immersive processes. What truly distinguishes these formats? Do they pursue different artistic goals—and how do their design practices diverge?

This moderated discussion brings together two larp designers and artists whose work spans both formats. Nina Runa Essendrop holds a Master’s degree in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (movement specialization) from the University of Copenhagen and is best known for her short, non-verbal blackbox larps. Maiju Tarpila, theatre pedagogue and PhD researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki, is renowned for her several day climate larps that emphasize co-creation and unfold as artistic processes.

Together, they will explore the shared ground and key differences between shortform and longform larp: from artistic intent and authorship to duration, embodiment, collaboration, and audience experience. The discussion is moderated by Kaisa Kangas, the artistic producer of the shortform larp festival Immersion Larp Festival, a larp designer, and the author of the Finnish non-fiction book Larppi eläytymisen taiteena which explores larp as an art form of immersion and embodied experience.

Whether you design, study, or experience larps—or are curious about their place in contemporary art—this conversation offers insights into how format shapes artistic practice.

This is a presentation of a fieldwork in a queer larp community for leather dykes+, a community few know about. With a following discussion of erotic larp and BDSM role-play games. Hanne Grasmo is doing her PhD in game culture studies, and this is her forth upcoming PhD-article, written together with Professor and larp scholar J.Tuomas Harviainen. Through participatory observation, small-group interviews, and analysis of design documents and workshop scripts, we identify how pleasure is produced, negotiated, and ethically managed through game structures and how this fictional social world can be part of queer resistance. New insights for larp designers of erotic and queer larps, as well as academics.

Beneath a Silver Sky is a roleplaying workshop adapted from a large-scale policy game originally designed and run by the Civil Service College Applied Simulation and Training (CAST) team in Singapore.

Set in a version of Singapore in 2034, we invite you to step into speculative futures of climate change and geoengineering through the lens of "Resiliency Circles": support groups navigating extreme weather and radical climate interventions. The workshop invites players to reexamine how we view the relationship between individuals and global systems like climate change, and what a speculative version of bottom-up governance might look like.

Have you grown tired of predictable characters? Do you long to write or play something different? A soft male poet who only dreams of being loved for who he is? The charming female playgirl who is celebrated despite her faults? The resourceful transperson who’s nestled their way to the top of the food chain?

In this workshop we name what tropes we're tired of, then use it as a trampoline: What sort of female/male/trans characters are often missing from our narratives? What fresh concepts do we long to explore? What can we dream up if we work together? Come and brainstorm with us to create character concepts, or share ideas you already have.

This is a 5 hour workshop, (though it can be flexible), designed at Tampere University with the Games As Art Center. It introduces participants to the biographical micro-larp framework whereby individual memories are turned into short form 10 minute larp scenarios. This targets people interested in experimental larp forms and using personal experiences in game design. No experience designing is required.

It's a workshop for larp orgazers/writers with a specific larp or an idea, people who want to help making a larp and people who just have good ideas they would like to see being made.
The participants tell if they belong to one (or more) of groups above. Then groups are made based on the larps/idea and people then choose a group. It's possible to switch between more groups. Depending on how many larps/ideas that have been presented more rounds are made with new groups.

The workshop has been running at KP22, KP23 and SK24 with great success. It was also supposed to run at KP21, but I got sick the day before and had to cancel.

Programme description:
Birth of a larp

Do you have an idea for a larå, but want some feedback or people to help you? Do you want to make a larp, but don't have the idea or don't feel experienced enough to be the head honcho? Do you want to see this specific larp come to life and don't have time to organize it but want your ideas heard? Do you have a lot of tips and advice for organizing a larp that you think others could benefit from?

If you can say yes to one or more of the above then Birth of larp is the workshop for you.

At the workshop people will present their idea for a larp and tell what they wish they can take home with them after the workshop. Then people will join a larp group according to their interests. It's possible to swap between the groups if you like.

Nothing is planned beforehand except for what you bring to the table.

A panel discussion on the emergence of larp festival in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany in 2008-2013.

Come by and help us blow up the balloons to the party! Even if you only blow up one that's awesome. Imagine all the balloons we will have if all 550 participants do one each!

The Party evening can be socially intense. In previous years some of us gathered in less noisy, more cozy areas of the event to play board games together. We will provide some, but feel free to bring your own!

Larp is a profoundly embodied medium, but we often treat the body as something to manage rather than something to explore. Our focus tends to rest on the "parlour" side of larping: talking, thinking, then talking about our thinking. Meanwhile, the body gets relegated to logistics and safety protocols; how to fight, how to love, how to move. But what can the body do for larp? How can we use embodiment not just as a given or an hindrance, but as a creative, expressive, and meaning-making tool at the heart of the larp experience?

A meetup for people who identify outside the gender binary or who are questioning their gender identity alike. Includes a gender 404 playlist, St. Eve‘s Nail Polish Extravaganza, temporary tattoos, stickers, and Ahoi fizz.

Anything Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway is welcome here. Can you hear the people sing into the woods for good? This is your place then!

Light is everything. How and where we place it strongly impacts how we experience the world. It directs players to certain spaces, influences their mood and emotions, and can give a room its own character.

This talk provides larp organizers with a set of easy to advanced lighting design tools that enable them to significantly level up the atmosphere of their location - without having to build much. And it shares a few lessons learned from 10 years of building glowy larp sets, including: Tales Inside, Greylight 2142 and Blankspace.

Turn off the ceiling lights and turn on the larp magic!

Just some Time and space to practice before the Kabarett Act.

This is a workshop about how to calibrate before and during a larp. It could be calibrating relationships, specific scenes or how to quickly calibrate in the middle of an ongoing scene.

The focus is learning from each other, with the hosts providing questions to discuss and facilitating the workshop.

This workshop is for anyone interested in the subject (and calibration is a good skill to practice for all larpers!).

Lets watch the latest episode of "Gift vid första ögonkastet" (married at first sight) togehter.
The show is in swedish

One hour Senior Speed-Connecting, for all genders from 40 years old. This will feel like speed-dating or speed-friending, but this hour of connecting will also include some physical exercises like hugging, touching hands and staring into each other eyes.

let’s connect through the magic of storytelling

Since about the dawn of human kind, people have gathered around the fire to tell and listen to stories. Come and enjoy a storytelling session with us, where we do just that thing!

In this lightly-structured session, our aim is to simply bask and revel in the magic of storytelling for a while. In small groups, around make-believe bonfires (i.e battery powered candles probably) we invite you to listen to eachothers larp-related stories. Our hope is, that by being provided this space along with some guiding questions, you will get to (re-)discover, reflect over and/or notice which stories that actually stay with you, how they affect you and how they connect you to others.

Let's inspire each other! Which specific and very practical mechanics and tools do people love in collaborative larp design both as players and designers?

I will shortly describe dyadic play, strict time management, calibration rounds in act breaks where people have to dedicate if they offer to help each other and my eye contact exercise to create connection between play partners.

But I want to hear yours! So we'll split up into smaller groups and inspire each other and gather ideas all together in the end. We will also try out a few of them.

Imagine a global community united in tackling the climate crisis. Can games play a part in it? Climate for All is an award-winning project designed for exactly that purpose, transforming play into skills, and skills into climate action. Six original games have been developed through the project, tailored to different competences and audiences, including of course two LARPs. Come learn how the whole thing works and how you can be part of it!

Chair Wars is an EduLARP created for a project management course at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany by our team Larp4Lectures, together with Epic Education.

Chair Wars shines a spotlight on something every real project eventually teaches you: it’s not the tech that makes or breaks a project — it’s the people. Personal quirks, communication hiccups, and clashing motivations can turn even the simplest plan into a delightful (or chaotic) adventure.

In Chair Wars, you’ll step into the shoes of employees in a mid-sized company that’s about to move into a brand-new office building. Your mission? Fight for the perfect seating plan for your team — while juggling different interests, priorities, and personalities.

Each character comes with unique traits that bring common project failure factors to life. It’s your chance to experience how teamwork, decision-making, and individual behavior shape a project’s fate… and to have a lot of fun ruining the project mission!

Join this improv workshop designed for anyone who wants to explore their voice in a group setting. Together, we’ll experiment with group vocal improvisation techniques and discuss how these can enhance larp experiences, whether you're a player or a designer. While some elements will have a musical focus, no singing experience is required. The session is hosted by Hannu Sinervä and Linn Meander, both experienced larpers and choir enthusiasts.

The Closing Ceremony is where we say goodbye to each other after a weekend together.
A bittersweet goodbye with hope to see each other soon again.

This workshop is about leading and following and aims at creating a shared connection while dancing in pairs. For anyone interested in dance connection, leading and following principles, or who want to be inspired for their next larp.

Conscience? L'Conscience? Cowboys and musketeers alike are invited for a grand reunion of friendly hellos while recalling those damn memories that started it all!

Curious about how costumes and props are made when using material more inspired from the cosplay-conventions than historically accurate? Join this beginner-friendly workshop and try it for yourself! Test out different materials used in costume and prop making, learn a few tricks, and get a hands-on feel for the craft. No experience needed—just curiosity.

Learn the basics of DJing and get some hands on experience on the decks! We'll quickly go over some basic music theory for DJs, what the various faders, knobs and buttons do, and some basic techniques for blending, beatmixing or transitioning tracks. We'll also talk about how to "read the room", how select tracks and build sets for specific outcomes or moods, and finish off with some practical hands-on time with the decks and mixer.

No previous experience needed!

We want to connect with fellow larpers from our neighbouring countries and brainstorm about the need and possibilities of a larp conference in Central Europe in the next year.

An interactive panel discussion about how to write compelling characters, best practices and what not to do

This presentation will cover a wide area of topics from core vision and how to treat design darlings to specific examples and solutions on lighting, sound, furniture, interactivity, prop building, graphic design and work process. It will be concrete and offer examples from larps such as The Forbidden History, Lord of Lies, 1913 and the Androids trilogy.

Explore what makes a ritual in game shine and understand the building blocks for creating one for players that's immersive and fuels the story, vibe, and plot.

A structured cuddle party with rules, intro, welcoming space etc.

We will explore movements, intimacy and connection. No dance experience is required as we won't focus on technique but rather on tools and ideas for interacting. Bring your courage to move and to share physical contact with other people. We will try to create a common dance language, and for that, we will go through various exercises: solo, in couples and in larger groups. If you have a blindfold, feel free to bring it, it may come handy.

Bordonian Dances are a collection of "historical" dances created by Dr. John Gardiner-Garden, part of his larger "Bordonian world" creation, encompassing music and dance from a fantasy setting inspired by historical European styles. One of his books includes a series of dances from different seasons and we will dance through all the seasons.

Discover the power of dance as a tool for group cohesion, storytelling, and magic. In this workshop, you'll learn six choreographed circle dances perfect for small groups or large gatherings that are easy to pick up and perfect for sacred spaces and LARP events around fires or in ballrooms.

We will be teaching new dances that are perfect for groups to use at larps and also go over one or two of the ones we did the first workshop if there is time!

There will be music, there will be disco ligths, but you better not dance!

On an ordinary day, an ordinary person walks by a party and feel welcome, called even, to join. They don’t know what this party is, and they don’t know anyone else there. That is, until they see someone they have never met, but know better than they know anyone else.

Dancing with myself is a grounded and surrealistic scenario where introspection and conversation become the same thing. In pairs, the players will create their own character with dilemmas and hardships, and in doing so choose the themes of their game. Through dance, mirroring, and most of all conversation, the players will explore this character and their relationship to themself. At the same time, they will be part of a crowd of people around their co players.

In a basement in a French town that history has forgotten, where the smoke of its denizens bad vices however as an ominous cloud, and the conversion is just a murmur above the mellow jazzy tones that emanates from the shadows. The heart broken and depressed, the dark romantic, the up and coming, the avantgarde, the love struck, and occasional sad clown, come together to have a laugh, a social chat, a drink of absinthe, or just enjoy the service from the establishment's two fine and eccentric French waiters. It is a place where poetry flows and everyone is encouraged to take the stage to describe the world for what it is, declare ones innermost feelings, or undying love for someone precious in the audience, whether it be ennui, distaste, hate, love or desire, all is poetry.

Have you ever invited a group of friends over to play an intense, well designed scenario game and they show up with their bag of dice and their Adventurers League D&D character sheet?

Scenario Games have been around for a long time. Festivals like Fastaval, Stockholm scenario festival, Grenselandet, The Smoke and others have been showing off and promoting these types of games for many years. Yet there is no useful definition of what it is and is not.

While a select few intuitively know what is and is not a Scenario Game this knowledge is not readily available for the broader larp and rpg community.
While a definition will never be perfect (this is art after all, and art refuses to be caged by strict definitions) we will aim at coming up with a USEFUL definition in this session.

A useful definition can help curious players to find these great gems among the thousands of rule and system heavy roleplaying games published each year. And help the community and creators to promote the specific design by referring to the body of work already present. And be inspired to add to and improve on it.

Are you a person who either intuitively knows what the Scenario Game is really about?
Are you a person who wants to help others find these kinds of games and have easy access to these experiences?

Please join us in creating a useful definition and a strategy on how to share them.

How to avoid sudden but inevitable betrayals by the technological components of your LARP.

While many LARPs do just fine with nothing more complicated than a pack of index cards, technology offers gamerunners some tempting opportunities to enhance their games.

Nick and Rachel have run larps incorporating technologies from networking and bespoke software to horses and blackpowder muskets. Drawing on their own experiences and a broader circle of gamerunners, they outline the ways that technological components of a LARP can go wrong and what you can do as a gamerunner to minimise those risks.

This is an experiential workshop where we dive into larp design from a new and different angle, which will hopefully make you leave with a lifted sense of confidence and lots of inspiration for how to go about designing more larps. Join us as we explore what is actually needed to create a functioning larping experience - by setting a sharp time limit!

It doesn’t matter if you are totally new to larp design, or if you have a lot of experience with designing - this guided, step-by-step workshop will force you to step into the process from a different perspective and gather new insights about the design process. You will join forces with a few others to collaboratively go all the way from brainstorming sessions to playable larp-scenarios - all within 60 minutes.

Is it even possible to design a playable larp-scenario in just 60 minutes? YES! Is it required to be breathtaking and groundbreaking to play through? NO! Will we try actually playing the larps? YES - part 2! Will it be fun and give us lots of new insights to larp design? Definitely!

***Note: This workshop is the first part of two connected program items and will be followed up by a second workshop, PART 2 - PLAYTHROUGH. If you sign up to this workshop also sign up to PART 2 to set up and play the finished scenarios.

It doesn’t matter if you are totally new to larp design, or if you have a lot of experience with designing - this guided, step-by-step workshop will force you to step into the process from a different perspective and gather new insights about the design process. You will join forces with a few others to collaboratively go all the way from brainstorming sessions to playable larp-scenarios - all within 60 minutes.

Is it even possible to design a playable larp-scenario in just 60 minutes? YES! Is it required to be breathtaking and groundbreaking to play through? NO! Will we try actually playing the larps? YES - part 2! Will it be fun and give us lots of new insights to larp design? Definitely!

*Note: This workshop is the first part of two connected program items and will be followed up by a second workshop, PART 2 - PLAYTHROUGH. If you sign up to this workshop also sign up to PART 2 to set up and play the finished scenarios.

Was it possible to design a viable larp-scenario in 60 minutes? Sign up and find out!

This is PART 2 of the experiential workshop where a group of participants had just 60 minutes to design a playable larp-scenario. Now it’s time to test them out!

You are more than welcome to participate in this part only - if you’d like to test the larps that have been created but don’t want to join the designing part yourself.

Do we promise you’ll get a transformative experience? No. Can we guarantee amazing larp design? No - it’s possible, but not the point of this experience. Will we have something to play through? YES. Will we be able to have a fun and interesting experience together? YES.

Let’s say we promise nothing and are prepared for anything!

Will it really take 2 h 45 min? Maybe? We will have anything between 1-4 larp-scenarios ready (enough) to be played, depending on how many groups we had in PART 1. Each larp will take somewhere between 5-35 minutes to play through. Probably.

As a player, it will be possible to drop in and out in breaks between two different larps. But since we can’t set any timelines in advance, you might have to wait a bit for us to be able to let you in or out. Hopefully - it will be captivating enough for you to stay the whole time!

Designer Highlights show cases different designers that has tried new design choices, and want to share the lessons learned from the process.
It can be anything from how they have used props in their larp design, food as a diegetic tool, character writing or any other design choice they feel are interesting enough to share in a more analysed manner to the larp community.

History of Monstrous Immersive
A Retrospective of our neuro-spicy, queer community in Berlin Germany

As we're approaching our 5th annual flagship LARP, Burning Castle,
We want to present about what creating the Nordic LARP scene in Berlin has been like. We will talk about how we learned to collaboratively organize from the burner community and what that meant for larping.
We'll talk about our mistake and early pitfalls, and how we became the thriving community we are today.

Do you think larp democracy is boring? In this workshop, we explore if, and how, a nuanced and complex understanding of democracy can create narrative and drama in larp.

A goth/industrial/alternative dance party with a DJ.

Music for goths who are afraid of guitars. An avalanche of frosty coldwave hits, with a scattering of synthpop gems and minimal wave earworms. It’s music to slow dance to in your local graveyard!

Cosmic disco, floaty bangers with a sprinkling of junglism

DJ Kalashnicore and DJ Tiddeli brings dirty, deep sex club beats for pervy brains and bodies

This high-energy DJ set blends modern house and tech-house with iconic club classics and playful remixes to create a vibrant collective dance experience. Driving beats, recognizable hooks and a dynamic musical flow invite participants to let go, move together and celebrate the shared spirit of the community.
Designed as a social highlight of the conference, the set creates an open and inclusive atmosphere where newcomers and experienced dancers alike feel welcome. Expect an energetic journey from groovy warm-up vibes to euphoric peak moments on the dancefloor.

Time to pour yourself a campari, put on your shortest shorts and sweat it out on the dance floor as Snäll Kriminell brings you on a journey from the coke-fuelled italian disco scene of the 80s to the house- and ebm-infused nu-disco landscapes of France and Spain.

An hour where techno, acid & ebm meet eurodisco & girly pop. DJ Voigt is your guide on the dancefloor where fast beats, heavy bass, gnarly 303s, catchy choruses & peppy energy are fused together in a seamless mix!

Dance to the tune of seasons and get the party night started!

E(mo)DM Dance party is CANCELLED but there is a DJ take over! Come dance!

Its a dinner and workshop about Kapacitet building in Community and where we want to be in 10-20 years - and then we break Down to Work Blocks in the coming years

We are going to sing along to classic duets known from musicals, Disney movies and other things we love.
Choose your vocal in the song and sing "against" the other part.

If you want to have a saying on which songs we should sing, then fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TM7MQ8goLrXgqKkn8 before Tuesday the 17th April 23.59 ETC (I need time to make the play list and publish it so you have time to rehearse :-D )

A cosy and light-hearted one-hour room party. Come and say hello if you've played Eclipse and want to catch up with old and new friends, photos and music. Or maybe you're signed up for Bunker 101 and want to come and meet the organisers and players of this new adventure. You can ask questions and chat with new and old friends. Or you can just drop by to meet people, listen to music and raise a glass. We look forward to seeing you!

A discussion of how money is becoming a higher barrier of entry in the LARPing space. With many nordic larps growing more and more expensive we are faced with the prospect of less and less people having the means to take part in out shared hobby, this discussion is intended to get a conversation going around the economic exclusion this creates in our community.

Your Larp must go on. An explorative exercise in emotional self-regulation for larpers.

Most of us are here for the drama. We want all of the emotions! And let’s be honest, we can savour a bit of bleed too. But what if emotions get into the way of directing your character, enjoying the larp or emotional bleed becomes too much afterwards? Let’s find out a little what happens then and how to deal with it.

Come join fellow Emotional Support/Safety folks to learn about tools, tips, and best practices in community.

We settle in to talk about larp as a tool for Bridge building, whether in connection to different larp scenes, nationalities, cultures, political opinions or other schisms.
What can larp do to vreate understanding over scisms? What has already been done? What are the lessons learned and where should we go in the future?

The second evening show of the conference will celebrate springtime - the newcomers of Nordic Larp. Join our lovely panelists for an evening of casual conversations of how it is to be new to Nordic Larp or Nordic Larp organising.

The first Evening Show of the conference is a celebration of Nordic & International Larp Triumphs over the span of 2025.
With our brilliant host Jørn we get to celebrate the last years most brilliant and talked about larp endeavours

Seven years ago, Suus wrote an article about the Language of Consent, published in Larp Design (2019). Since then the community has expanded its knowledge and competence on the subject, and we’d like to summarize and discuss where we came from and where we are now. The focus lies on how we approach consent negotiations and how we teach this as a skill during workshops and as a community.
We will start with an introductory framework talk (10-15 minutes), followed by open discussion on the basis of moderator-provided statements.

It’s almost a given that larp stories are the ultimate instance of ‘you had to be there’. Over the past year I have begun to challenge that idea by not only translating my larp experience to word of mouth storytelling, but to sequential imagery, comics.

My biggest challenge in this is finding a way to document my experiences of a larp in a way that is authentic, doesn’t interfere with the playing experience, and has the ability to connect and resonate with an audience that was not there.

In this program item I would like to reflect on a year’s worth of experiments, what has and hasn’t worked, as well as how to move forward.

Fun!

A party for feminine queer people. The theme is community and the aim is to meet other people and have fun!

A panel of people, who in different ways have experience with counselling or mental health care, talks about how to deal with self-doubt and low self esteem for players and organisers.

Come for the hope of curing your self-doubt, stay for the super helpful strategies you can apply to your life instantly, to better deal with the stupid shit your brain will continue to throw at you.

We are also hosting a workshop right after the panel. (NB! The workshop has limited spots with signup.)

Building on what we talked about during the panel, we aim to use this newfound knowledge to create something that can be used by future larpers and organizers to both fight and prevent brain weasels, both individually and collectively.

Do you sometimes find yourself "stuck in your head" during a LARP? Or do you feel like you talk too much? Does your character feel like a collection of ideas rather than a living, breathing person?
We will use music and simple movement exercises to help you feel more grounded. By shifting the focus from your brain to your body, you’ll find it much easier to stay in character, react naturally to others, and feel truly present in the moment.
This workshop is an invitation to step out of the cognitive and into the physical: your body!
Come and enjoy a space where your body is the focus. We will use music and several movement techniques to help you get grounded and connected - first to your own body, and then to each other. You will learn how to build a character from the "inside-out" and how to let that character physically evolve throughout a game.
Whether you are a player looking for deeper somatic immersion or an organizer wanting to learn physical calibration tools or you simply want to have fun while using your body this workshop offers a practical way to stay connected to your feelings and less burdened by your brain. I will provide all of the techniques shown, all of them can be used for Pre- and Post-LARP-Workshops.

What happens when Nordic and European larp meets American players? Four experienced organizers discuss bringing Nordic style larp design to the United States, examining cultural differences, player expectations, communication styles, and production realities. The panel offers concrete insights into what adapts smoothly, what causes friction, and how transatlantic larp collaborations can succeed in practice.

There are multiple techniques for playing on sex and intimacy. In this talk and demonstration Atropos will show some of their different sex techniques and explain why they are used in different kinds of larps with differing levels of intimacy and realism.

This program item may contain nudity, explicit language, and design thoughts.

Come sing and play together!

Dress up in you best gothclothes and come and hang with us!
Not feeling the goth, that is ok cause you can dress fab in your best Goth-anime-metal-nerd-queer-sparkly-hippie-vampire-kpop-rave outfit!
Just bring chocholate and your own awesome self!

Welcome to Gotham Knights — Gothenburg, a city of shadows, stories, and larger-than-life characters.
Come as a hero, a villain, or just another soul on the streets of Gotham: a coat, a mask, or an attitude is more than enough.
Dress boldly or subtly, step into the city, and let the night decide who you are.

Come and get the grand party evening started with the main organisers of this years KP! 💃

Between 2008 and 2018, many Stockholm larpers were involved in Granlandskampanjen - a series of low fantasy war larps that managed to mix combat-centred larps with high resolution conflicts, nuanced and multi-faceted cultures and world building, and following an ethnic conflict between groups who are more alike than they are different. Some of its design choices were great, and like nothing I've seen described in English before. So today, we look back and reflect on what we learnt. Come learn some Swedish larp history, indulge in nostalgia or get inspired for future projects.

Are you planning to avoid alcohol, or to limit your drinking, at Knutpunkt? Join us at this friendly, supportive discussion/social. We're here both for people who don't drink at all, and for people who do drink but might want support in managing their drinking.
Everything said will remain confidential, and you will be introduced to the Blue Ribbon Collective project, a mutual support group for people wishing to avoid alcohol or limit their intake at larps and larp-related events.

Come and learn some historical dances that can be danced at for example regency larps. Extremely beginner friendly.

This is a continuation of the beginner dancing class, but is more focused on actual dancing. Seasoned dancers, beginners from the previous workshop, and everyone in between is welcome.

You will learn what creativity and innovation really is and how it relates to Nordic Larp design.

Based on this I will propose specific do's and don'ts for Nordic Larp designing groups: if they care about being creative, innovative or original.

Details include: the creative process, what creative thinking is and how to increase your skill in it, how to design your group culture to promote creative behaviours.

Initiating scenes for other players sometimes seems a daunting endeavour. As a player, an NPC or an organizer, we claim space and time and set impulses for others.
Often, improvised scenes are not as impactful as they could be, or do not integrate bystanders very well. But what actually is a scene? Who is involved? And how do I make it happen so that others profit from my play, while still playing a character?

We get together to play some improv games for beginners! For anyone with any improv theater experience at all or none whatsoever. I'd like to bring some energetic improv fun to KP!

Loosely inspired by Dante’s Divina Commedia, this social game invites participants to confess which of the seven deadly sins they most identify with. They form clans with other sinners of similar mortal taste.
A lottery system decides who will meet whom and each encounter brings a new set of questions.
Made by: Nea Landin & Gabriel Widing

A look back on the past larp year with its scandals and premieres. We might scoop some previously unknown news items, as we usually do...

First time at KP Hanne and Tyra shares their insider tips of how to best enjoy your experience at the conference. What are the written and unwritten rules? Why are you not allowed to have rituals in the elevator and what is a snack- fairy?
Meet other experience the KP-culture for the first time, make new friends and get some help along the way!

Want to get that quick overview of all the amazing articles in the KP book? Want to be the first to use a new term coined this year in conversation? Or do you want the editors' "best tips" for where in the book to start reading? Then this is the program item for you! Come and get the gist of all the greatness, swoon over the authors, and maybe even ask a question or two!

Just a small dance parry with Kpop music!

What is KP-TV?
KP-TV is a tradition that started at Knudepunkt 2015 in Denmark. The show used to be for the 4 host-countries only, but in 2018 it was opened up for all countries to submit their videos to include even more people in the fun.
To get an idea on what KP-TV is, you can see previous shows here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1si-qoSoD657mojZbDVT_Uc1JHla6_1fz-EPspfXwbMk/edit?usp=sharing

That sounds fun! How do I join?
Find a team and fill out this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11wVXmHwY3h9pGvjtqESbxCiM7KsbnM-j_egWuB0d9mA/preview before Sunday the 8th March 2025 at 23.59. But the sooner the better, so we can get the hype going and share our crazy ideas.

I don't have a team, but I want to join. What do I do?
Fill out the form, and the we'll ask the other teams in you area/country if they could use an extra person.
Or do a solo show. That's totally ok.

Then what?
Make your show.
The show you make must be one coherent show, since each contribution will be shown as one "block".

Upload a copy* to a google drive, drop box, wetransfer etc. and send the link to Jost at jost@dicksmock.dk no later than Wednesday the 8th April 2026 at 23.59.

We will then collect all the shows in one big file, so we only have one file to play when KP-TV has premiere.

How long can our show be?
That depends on how many teams sign up. We'll know after the deadline the 8th March.

If you have any questions send them to jost@dicksmock.dk and we will gladly answer any questions you may have as well.

*Technical stuff: the file must preferreble be 25 fps, 1920x1080, H.264 or any .MOV format.. The show MUST have English subtitles.
The show is shown on a movie screen, so film your show in "wide"-screen (landscape) not in "tall"-screen (portrait / mobile phone format). You can use a mobilephone, but film in landscape, unless you have a specific reason for filming in portrait mode.

Coordinating Secretariat for Body, Posture & Kinetic

Development / Expression

Ref. KSBPK/D — Cycle XXXIV | Document Class: General Circulation | Status: Binding

Official notice of scheduled occurrence

Issuance date: to be confirmed upon receipt of inter-departmental clearance

Pursuant to the uninterrupted operational continuity established in the founding cycle and sustained across thirty-three (33) consecutive annual iterations, the Coordinating Secretariat hereby gives notice that the 2026 occurrence of the KSBPK/D event shall take place on a date and at a location to be communicated through appropriate channels, in accordance with procedures familiar to those to whom they are familiar.

Following a determination process the specifics of which fall outside the scope of this notice, the Secretariat has resolved that this cycle's designated modality of expression shall be drawn from the category of regulated physical movement in response to, and in coordination with, acoustic stimulus — alternatively, the human voice as a primary instrument of tonal, rhythmic, and emotional conveyance. The modality applicable to the 2026 cycle has been selected. Attendees are advised to come prepared for one of these possibilities, not both, and not neither.

All expressions of the body and voice employed during the event shall be undertaken with full sincerity of limb, breath, and intention. Participants are reminded that inhibition of natural expressive impulse is discouraged and, in certain configurations of the proceedings, may be considered non-compliant.

Cycle number XXXIV (34th occurrence)
Unbroken continuity since 1993 (year of original mandate)
Modality category Confirmed — disclosed at venue
Attendance status Expected, as per established custom
Further enquiries Noted. Responses subject to availability.
Recipients of this notice are presumed to understand its implications. Those who do not are encouraged to reflect on what, precisely, they expected it to say.

We live and larp in times when climate change is pressing but people don’t do enough with it.

Do we - LARP players, runners and designers - have any special powers to use and make a difference?

- How can LARP be used in any stages of climate education?
- How about adults, ESG, business and community building?
- What LARP games and tools are there ready to use?
- Are there relevant upcoming LARP events in this field?
- What important LARPs don’t exist but should be created?
- Is it just about climate or a total social transformation?
- What are the strengths and the traps of LARP for this?

We have invited to this panel talk a few larpers and educators with practical experience in this field and larp games to share.

The discussion will be open and everyone is welcome to pitch a relevant LARP they know.

In parallel, we will share and keep expanding an interactive map of Climate Larps and share them with everyone who joins the panel.

If you want your LARP to appear on the Map before the panel starts, please let us know, we are curious to hear about it!

→ go to KP26 Discord → channel "kp26-program" → "LARP and CLIMATE" discussion post

For interested people, that want to exchange experience or thoughts or listen to the topic of limerence in LARP.

Welcome to a cozy tavern for wandering larpers. The LARP Passport Tavern is a relaxed, drop-in social space where travellers gather to share stories from the road — across games, countries, roles, and years of play.

The LARP Passport was created by a small group of passionate larpers as a mini journal for recording and reflecting after larps, and it’s part of the atmosphere here rather than something you need to bring or use. Passports will be available to buy if you’re curious, and we’ll also hand out selected pages — like Larper Bingo — so everyone can jump in and start interacting right away.
The space is set up like a tavern or waystation, with different corners hosting small, playful mini-games inspired by the LARP Passport that gently prompt storytelling. We’re still shaping some of these ideas, but they may include things like a crowdsourced “Hall of Fame” (most challenging LARP, most comedic LARP, etc.) alongside conversation prompts that invite both silly and reflective stories. The idea is that people are free to wander, sit down, join a conversation halfway through, or just listen in.

There’ll be a stamp corner to mark moments, meme stickers to take home, and light background music to set the mood. No fixed structure, no pressure — just a shared space for swapping larper tales, meeting new people, and enjoying a pause together in the middle of Knutpunkt.

Join us for a high-energy, deep-dive exploration of larp design. This session, held by Bjarke Pedersen, features a dynamic, rotating panel of larp designers who cycle on and off the stage as the topics shift. We skip the basics to focus on the most difficult and challenging aspects of the process. Expect a series of increasingly complex questions designed to push the boundaries of how we think about the medium. This is a chance to witness a high-level, honest conversation between peers in a setting that is both cosy and rigorous.

Being an artist working with participatory experiences, I recently compiled an overview lecture about how larp is present in the contemporary art field today. My initial goal was to introduce LARP as an already established art form to new audiences. Yet, playing a hyper-short larp was still more effective. So I made a quick one. For this almost larp lecture party, you'll play an audience member who's never heard of larp and came to this lecture, on purpose or by chance. It'll start as a regular lecture, but has all chances to become a party, a larp or all at once.

A forum for and about middle aged and older larpers. These are some of the questions up for discussion: Do we find the characters we would like to play? If not, how can we find them? When should we stop going for roles that are described as young and pretty? What can we older larpers bring to the table?

A meet-up for people who either have experience with, or have wanted to, implement tech in their larp designs. We talk about our wants and needs and worries and try to find inspiration for future projects. Christer Edvardsson will try to moderate and help to guide the discussion so that everyone who want to gets to have a say.

Tired of deciding whether to be a gentleman or a lady?
Looking for a chance to try out something beyond the binary?
Or are you a ancient gender deviant, and want a space to revel with fellow queers?
We're taking donations of dead names, bi panic, and we're leaving our mundane pronouns at the door then picking up any pronoun you wouldn't usually use- with an emphasis on the theys and thems. Come for some fun games, gay tunes and no guarantees your gender will still be there when you leave.

When was the last time you really played one of those old games like Fetch or Freeze Dance? I am creating a space where the only goal is to have a lot of fun and dive into pure, low-stakes play. We will play a number of interactive short-games, with the focus of joy and physical movement. This is not so much about winning or losing – simply having fun together.

Groundhog Day, Westworld, that one episode of Stargate…. In media, we love to explore the ideas of looping, variations on a theme, and learning through repetition and mistakes, but we seldom explore those ideas through larp. Why is that? Well, probably because doing the same thing over and over again is actually kind of boring.

Kim Lam and James Brown are designers and larpers from Canada working on a new blockbuster larp using looping play to explore themes of identity and autonomy. In this workshop, James will talk about this project, designing for looping play, and finding the balance between enough variation that it’s interesting but not so much that it stops being the same events. He will also present a short scenario and guide the audience through several loops.

Bring a cheese from your home country, make a small speech about it and taste, learn and indulge in the best kind of food there is!

New to KP? Great, us too! Come join Jac and Zo for an informal newcomers’ meet & greet. We’re here to welcome first-timers and make sure you leave with a few friendly faces to look for over the weekend. Drop by anytime and stay as long or as little as you like. We can’t wait to meet you!

Larp is a practice, and that’s what we love – so then what’s so great about theory? Come to the Left Bank of Paris in the far-away 20th century to find out! Three larp theorists have invited all their friends for cigarettes*, wine**, and a serious*** late-night debate about which French theorist is the BEST for thinking about larp.
You’re welcome to just pop in and chill while Alessandro, Jaakko, and Johanna are pissy about theory they hate talk and joyful about theory they love. You are also welcome to don a black turtleneck, a French beret, or ludicrous intellectual glasses, and join in to challenge, complicate, or speculate based on your own new favourite French theorists. No prior knowledge is required (we’ll provide cue cards).
*Not real cigarettes. **Probably not actually wine ***Serious theory, unserious moustaches.

No matter how seasoned an organiser you are there will always be that time you made a mistake so bad that you should have your organiser card evoked.
This is a program item where we tell you about our mistakes so you don't have to make them yourself.
Listen to a collection of larp organisers telling the tales of when things went terribly wrong and perhaps learn a lesson or two for the future.

Come learn and practice some new tools from across the pond, then use them during our Monstrosity Party later that day. (You don't have to come to the party to learn from our workshop!)

When the makers of the American larp, Monstrosity, determined the sort of content they wanted to showcase in the erotic horror experience, they realized they had to develop some unique tools to promote the sort of play they envisioned. Their suite of risk controls included three customized tools that had to be taught to all participants. This workshop introduces these three tools, as well as the methods to teach them.

Specifically, up to 24 participants can learn the history and science behind the tools called Natural Language, the Self-Care Cue, and the Consent-To-Risk cue. Then, they’ll train each other to expertise with the tools, culminating in short role-play scenarios. As part of this, they’ll learn about workshop design that includes Spot Checks, Proficiency Checks, and Larp-Oriented Practice. We’ll also provide documentation at the beginning of the workshop for people to take home with them.

In the evening after the workshop, we’ll have a separate program item; the Monstrosity party, where these participants can use their expertise to create scenes of erotic horror in a larger context.

This program item will include portrayals of sexuality and violence, and requires close physical contact.

Enjoy a taste of the erotic horror larp, Monstrosity, both personally and as a voyeur.

Monstrosity is an American larp that explores sexuality and violence through a story of vampires and their favorite humans. At this party, you’ll be able to engage with each other in a role of your choosing, either as a human at a dance party, or a vampire who seduces them as they feed.

While most scenes will be consensual, participants who have attended the Monstrosity Methods workshop earlier that day may role-play out nonconsensual scenes, which you may watch as a voyeur, to learn more about how we accomplish this at the larp. Please do not play out any nonconsensual scenes without attending the earlier workshop.

Participants will be greeted at the door and given a few brief instructions to reduce risk, and the party will be monitored by facilitators. Once inside, you’ll just play someone at a private dance club, where anything can happen. If you would like more details, please contact the organizers at monstrosity@sinkingshipcreations.com.

Note: this party includes portrayals of violence and sexuality, and may include nudity.

Larp- drop KP Blues, Big sad... We call it many things but most of us know what we mean. That feeling of loss when we exit the magical bubble and once more face reality and our everyday life.
Gavin Treep takes us through some good tools to help handling those feelings.

Start your day with a mind-expanding conversation about the many ways that using larp in education intersects with other methods of embodied role-taking. Passionate experts in edularp, simulation, and training have a chill, realistic conversation about what larp is the clearly best, why larp clearly sucks, and why role-playing history is actually a history of larp in which tabletop RPGs is only a side quest.

Summer of larp as political activism aims to highlight ongoing trends in the international and Nordic larp community where larp is used as a political tool.

Good morning! Come and connect body and mind with some gentle movement exercises from theatre and dance. You can change the intensity as you like. Wear comfy clothes if you can.

Good morning! Come and connect body and mind with some gentle movement exercises from theatre and dance. You can change the intensity as you like. We'll warm up individually and then do some collective playing. Wear comfy clothes if you can.

Mud in the Machine, the Making Public of a Documented Artistic Research Project.

Mulholland is a larp about desperation, hope, love and the important choices that change everything. With the help of sound and lights the participants are taken on a surreal journey through 16 different scenes. Mulholland is inspired by David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive. But you don’t need to se the movie to play the larp.

I’ve never really put down my design philosophy and concepts for our larps. And looking at how participants do or do not interact with the material we offer to them made it clear to me that this is an important piece of the game design I’ve never clearly communicated. It relates to my personal understanding of collaborative creation, responsibilities of participants and organisers and how agency plays an important role in this understanding.

- Reading and Literacy promoting larp-projects for youngsters
Season of Larp - Summer. About shedding light on insights, tools and projects that are currently taking place or has recently been finished on the effect of larp as a way to promote reading and literacy. A lot of this is recognisable, but has not been widely talked about and used intentionally yet in Sweden when it comes to learning literacy.

The Dutch are traditionally not ones to flaunt their achievements, which means we rarely talk about the cool things that have happened in the Dutch larp scene over the past 35-ish years. With more than 100 events each year, we do think it's time to put our little country on the map though.

In this retrospect we'll take you on a ride through Dutch larp history, some milestones and some typical Dutch terminology.
So if you want to figure out what a ''gunfactor'' is (hint, it has nothing to do with guns) or why some Dutch larps are lovingly called ''Heirlooms'' come and have a listen.

Are you a pagan or just open to witchy stuff? There's gonna be a new moon in Aries tonight and if people like we are gonna do a really small manifestation ritual!

Nikolai Evreinov was once counted as among the top three theatrical directors in Russia during the early 1900s. Today, he's best known for directing The Storming of the Winter Palace, a massive 1920 outdoor re-enactment with almost 10,000 participants.

Mostly forgotten, however, are his ideas about the "theatrical instinct" for role play and "a theatre for oneself" that anticipate larp in surprising detail. This talk will introduce Evreinov, provide a summary of his artistic career, explore an important historical precedent for larp, and enrich larp's place in the theatrical tradition.

This session is part-therapy, part-talj
It explores *Onboarding*, the process of getting a participant to your larp ready to have their best experience. It puts forward a model, draws out some good practise, and invites contributions from larp participants and organisers alike. We're inspired by the chapter "Designing what happens before runtime" in the KP 2019 book. You're invited to share your thoughts with us as we bring design thinking to the time before the larp.

The organisers of this years Knutpyunkt wishes you all welcome in this Grand Opening of the conference.

Are you looking for co-organizers for a larp you're planning? Are you hoping to join the organizing team for a larp in the making? Do you find yourself with boundless energy or ideas for larp organization, but no one to share them with?

Bring your ideas and enthusiasm for larp organizing to this networking event for organizers and designers searching for their next partner or project!

This event is a continuation of the international co-organizer program item by Avalon Larp Studio, which will be hosted directly beforehand in the same space. Anyone is welcome to attend either or both programs, and are encouraged to arrive late or leave early from this event if needed.

I want to go back and re-live my years as a university student. It will be 45 minutes of music that was popular between 2010-2015, finished with the tradition of singing the song “Stad i ljus” in a big circle.

No pre-requirements. Just fun and dancing. Come join <3

This is a meet up for anyone who has organised KP/SK or who is interested in doing it some time in the future.
Come, meet the people behind the conference, network and relax together over a glass of alcohol free bubbles!

Staging an impromptu PHOTO-SHOOT for anyone who wants to join as model or photographer or hype-gang :).

Have: Light stand, flashes, camera, accessories and sundries.
Need: Your face, your vibe, your urge to be captured!

BE THE MAIN CHARACTER!

On-lookers, hype-gang and fellow photographers extremley welcome.

What do we mean when we talk about “larp photography”? Is it documentation, promotion, a service for participants, or a souvenir? Photos have become the primary way a larp is documented and communicated to the outside world, often more immediate and readable than design documents or written reports. And yet, larp photography is frequently expected to be cinematic first, prioritizing aesthetically pleasing player-focused images over an archival approach that captures context, structure, and what actually happened. In this talk, we will explore the different functions of larp photography and the tensions between them, to better understand what we are asking from photographers, and why.

Channel your inner Barbie and/or Ken energy and celebrate pink and a future feminist Barbie larp happening in 2027.

Yo-ho, pirates, landlubbers, and scurvy sea dogs!

For one whole hour, you’ll be able to let your sea legs rock the room harder than a galley in the middle of a storm. The pirate band SPOT-I-FY will be blasting for a full sixty minutes, and you’re invited to dress up like a true buccaneer.

Come and party like the pirate you truly are! 🏴‍☠️

What's a villain? What's an antagonist? And how do we play them as humans and not NPCs or archetypes? We will look at different types of power, control and expressions of authority to see what kind of oppression is meaningful and interesting to portray and get subjected to. We will also look at ways for your character to justify or excuse their abusive behavior as well as questions about the implicit responsibility to perform oppression and player dynamics.

There are many ways to communicate a larp design to a participant: character sheets, guides and workshops. This talk focuses on a different tool - in-role facilitation, specifically from trained performers such as actors. It discusses facilitation in general as a tool, the benefits of using this tool, and how to incorporate active facilitation in larp design.

You are a farmhand in in the 1600s, tasked with running with vital bags of mail. If you do not hurry enough there will be punishment - but, there is another farmhand. He may be a boy just like you, but... he's awfully cute, isn't he? What if you stayed to talk for just a moment?

In 1636, Sweden gets a new, unique postal system. In practice, it means that young farmhands become "Postdrängar" and regurarly recieve a bag of mail that they need to run with to the next postdräng. For efficencys sake postdrängar meets on the way, in the forest to exchange the post there. What happens in these private, hurried moments?

How do you get better at creating involving, engaging, and memorable play in larp—especially the kinds of conflicts that draw people in and leave lasting impressions? Good play doesn’t usually happen by accident. Crafting strong situations and compelling conflicts is a skill, and like any skill, it can be trained. Some larpers have honed this craft over hundreds of events and become scarily good. But there _is_ a shortcut: Practice and drilling.

Procrustean Bed is a larp-derived film and installation project led by Adam James, developed with players from larp, dance, and contemporary art communities across Europe and the UK, in collaboration with Brody Condon.

The session begins with a 15-minute preview screening. The film comes out of a four-day, largely non-verbal larp and workshop series with 25 participants, filmed in September 2024 in Borås, Sweden — across Dannike bog, Borås Museum, and a working early-1900s sawmill. The project moves between a tight domestic setting inspired by 18th-century craft labour and a more ritual, landscape-based strand set in bog and industrial environments.

After the screening, Adam and invited co-organisers and players will talk about making the work: using larp as a filmmaking method, non-verbal play experience and filming over multiple days and locations. Adam will also discuss how the project is evolving into installation and related sculptural forms.

This session is a chance to share the work with the community that shaped it and open up conversation about larp as a tool for film and contemporary art practice.

Taking promotional pictures for a larp can be both harder and easier than one imagines. We will go through everything from why you would want pictures as part of your promotional material to how you signal your vision through your artistic choices.
This talk will not focus on technical aspects – like what camera and equipment to use – but rather the artistic and storytelling aspects. What kinds of pictures work best for different kinds of larps? How can we help prospective players imagine the experience of the larp?

This is a LARP about larps from our experiences (the ones we wrote, the ones we played or just heard about) who find themselves in a purgatory. Will they continue to exist in people's memory? What is worth to be preserved and what is about to disappear forever? And of course - what is a personality of our favourite larps as characters, would they become friends or foes? This is to be discovered through the LARP.

Realists of a Larger Reality is a hopeful larp about realizing that change is possible and finding freedom of being a part rather than being apart.
The larp is abstract and non-verbal.

A Revacholian hardcore disco party for all Disco Elysium fans, 97 Poets of Revachol larp fans or just anyone interested in partying!

River Rafting Design is Katrine Wind's framework for designing larp experiences with more opportunities for emotional impact all through a larp both as a larp designer and as a player in a sandboxy larp. It builds on the basis of "Frontloading" and contains points about character/setting, mechanics and pacing.

The aim is to create larp experiences where all emotional impact isn't experiences at the end of the larp. Both designers and players can use the framework and you don't have to be experienced to join. However, it's an advantage if you know some of the basic terminology of Nordic larp like the difference between gamism, narrativism and immersionism.

Take a break from learning about larps older than you and come meet others with no memory of the internet dialup tone or 9/11.

The mine made the town, and the town made the mine. For more than a century they have grown together, under and above ground respectively. The mine shafts now sprawl in all directions, partly undermining the town. Furthermore, some of the richest mineral veins stretch even further under it. While children still play in the playgrounds and schools and shops are still open, large areas are no longer safe and even larger areas risk becoming affected.

It is clear that the whole town has to move. The game is set AFTER the divisive decision to move the whole city has been democratically made. Some people love it, some people hate it, some people think this is a necessary discomfort for the greater good. No matter the sentiments, this was democratically voted, and the decision has been made.

A group of people, champions in their local pub quiz night, will gather each week to play the quiz and discuss the recent events in town.

What happens when a government decides its civil servants need to unlearn? The Civil Service College Applied Simulations and Training (CAST) team from Singapore operates as a "laboratory for unlearning" within the public service, using gameful design to challenge calcified mental models and create brave spaces for strategic conversations.

This talk explores CAST's approach to unlearning – using provocations that help reveal hidden assumptions, loosen our hold on tightly-held mental models, and thus explore new possibilities. The team will demonstrate three core methods: employing the preposterous, using roleplay and metaphor, and creating interactive models.

In this panel we will hold a discussion on having sexism as an element of a larp’s world. Panelist’s will be organisers and players who design and play Larps in which sexism is a strong element of play. We will discuss how to design sexism in a safer way, how and why to make it meaningful
In a game, how to communicate about it to the players, how to play on sexist themes and what to look out for, how to calibrate it with other players, and how to be a good co-player when faced with portraying sexist behaviours. This is a program item for you if you as a designer or player are interested in designing or portraying sexism in larp.

Shadow Relations are a relationship mechanic that brings internal play to the outside. Inspired by the psychological mechanism of transference, characters are projecting somebody from their past or imagination onto each other: They may believe another character to be their distant parent, lost lover or inner child.

This mechanic can make backstories come alive, externalize inner conflicts and enable direct interaction with distant or abstract themes - all between two characters meaningfully playing with each other and without without need for NPCs. It was designed for and used in four runs of the larp Blankspace.

Learn what it‘s all about and experience it yourself in a series of short scenes! This workshop is for anyone interested in the mechanic - whether as a designer creating prewritten relationships, or as a player looking to bring more of your backstory or inner conflicts into play.

Shadows in Space Room Party is a mini black box adjacent LARP/ Jungian Nightmare/impro poetry smash/sensory experience where you and the other players project abstract and not so abstract concepts on to each other - You play yourself, you are alone and all around you are manifestations of your fears, death, ambition, the devil and whatever else may lie hidden in The Shadow Space. Everyone in The Shadow Space plays themself, everyone is alone. Everyone sees each other as something they are not.

You have some control over what people project onto you by choosing differently-coloured glow-sticks.

Join us to sing some songs of the sea! Check out the songbook here, and make a request if your favourite isn't there bit.ly/shantysongbook

Stuck in the early stages? Overwhelmed by planning?
Seasoned organizer willing to share your wisdom?
This session is aimed to exchange practical tools, structures, and hard-won "wisdom" for building games without burning out.
Planning and scheduling are not just logistical necessities, but powerful tools that can support game design, player safety, and organiser care when used intentionally.

Part 1: Planning tools before and after an event, focusing on coordination, decision-making, documentation, and how to both begin and conclude a project in a sustainable way.

Part 2: Game planning and scheduling as an intentional design tool, exploring how structure and timing can support game design, player safety, logistics, and organiser care.

The snack fairy will walk you trough stretches to reset your body before your night time plans!
Come as you are!

What are the possible choices in a larp? And how do players' actions produce consequences? Larps often follow two models: ‘infinite choices’ (the player does whatever they want) or predetermined choices (the larp has its own unchanging structure). In this talk, we will discuss models, borrowed from the narrative patterns of branched narrative. We will also discuss player agency and how to structure it to enhance the content of a larp.

What are the possible choices in a larp? And how do players' actions produce consequences? Larps often follow two models: ‘infinite choices’ (the player does whatever they want) or predetermined choices (the larp has its own unchanging structure). In this talk, we will discuss models, borrowed from the narrative patterns of branched narrative. We will also discuss player agency and how to structure it to enhance the content of a larp.

A discussion for everyone interested in Solmukohta 2028. What would you like to see at SK28? Come let us know!

Norovirus, double-booked locations, and weather chaos. During the years we've had some harrowing experiences in Atropos while organising. During that time we've had to work on both crisis management and participant communication. Listen to some horror stories, and how it all turned out in the end as we take you behind the scenes.

This is a program item for people who want to step into the role of organising larps. Come find your future co-organisers, mingle, and ask questions! We (Avalon Larp Studio) will be there to help out, but this is less a Q&A and more a facilitated networking event for people who don't know where to start.

We will focus on international larp organising, both when it comes to player demographic and organiser group coordination, as that is our expertise.

In a world plagued by natural disasters, the Earth’s colours lose brightness as everything becomes damaged. But amid it all, a story of hope and revival begins. Mother Earth calls upon a unique group of people, media of spirits chosen for their special skills and colours that embody the very essence of the Earth’s resources.

Drop in and fly a starship! Come and try Empty Epsilon, the popular starship bridge simulator software (as seen at Odysseus, Orion Sphere, Mission Together, The Wake).

This isn't really a LARP, more a chance to try out a tool. Come and fight pirates with friends, as a Helm, Weapons, Science, or Navigation Officer, Chief Engineer or Captain.

Do you like glitter? Glamour? Pop rock and bisexual joy/anguish from the early aughts? Please come join us in a one-hour celebration of the Swedish poprock band the Ark!

Since the Middle Ages, the adventures of heroes in distant lands have been retold through narrative songs such as ballads. A song is a particularly powerful way to preserve a story: it is more memorable and emotionally charged; however, it is also limited or distorted to fit line length or rhyme schemes.

A group of travellers, on riding companion animals, searching for a signal — hoping to learn more about their past, and perhaps their future.
In this LARP, we aim both to create the ballad of this group of adventurers and to sing it together, becoming the very characters celebrated in the song. The gaps in the ballad’s narrative will be filled by larping after each verse of the song.
While the technology within the game is reset to a level comparable to the Middle Ages, the scenario takes place in a speculative future after the collapse of civilization and climate as we know it.
This LARP is strongly based on collective singing and draws inspiration from Old British narrative folk songs, Alison Arth’s poetry RPGs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and emergency preparedness kits recommended by various European governments.

The incredible BI PAN PARTY continues it's rambunctious run. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. There is space for everyone here. The space is an explicit celebration of Bisexual, Pansexual, Omnisexual and Polysexual visibility, that everyone is invited to regardless of who they are.

So join the lemon drizzling, bad chair sitting, pun slinging finger gunners of the international larp scene for yet another celebration of our sexuality and help end the erasure. Loudly.

Love is love. However you love.

"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers..."- Bayard Rustin

❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

Visit the wonderful Fae Court. The Faecourt of Summer, Spring, Winter and Autumn have come to KP for an hour (human time). 
Let out your inner immortal and come to dance, flirt, drink, and manipulate all humans in sight!
Come as a human and discover the beauty and terror of the Fae realm (We do have cookies!)

We welcome you all to the court. Bring your most beautiful gowns, gifts, and guests. But be careful, for the Fae will try to make you stay and you might loose your souls in the process….

The crafting circle is a place to share stories. Bring your crafting to the circle (knitting, crocheting, needle binding, embroidery or anything you can craft while sitting down) and tell a story from a larp or a character you played that made a lasting impression.
Tell the story as if it was a fairy tale or as if it was a real thing that happened, share it in third person. "Once upon a time, there was a girl on a spaceship..."
Only crafters in the circle can share, and no story should be longer than 3 minutes each. Non crafters can listen. It is ok to prepare your fairy tale in advance. The crafting circle will be lead by a facilitator.

Three years into the project "Autistic Imagination" LajvVerkstaden have developed a method called "The creative room". Learn more about how to use the method with both children and adults to decrease performance anxiety and find you creative side.

"What is your favorite larp genre" "How do our relationships look in real life?" "What is success as an organizer?" - These and many many will be answered in the Great Four Corner Exercise!

This is a four corner exercise for us as participants. It's both an example of what can be done with four-corner exercises, a fun workshop where we get to see where we fit into the grand mass of larp preferences and thoughts, some innovation on the concept and possibly surprising revelations about your co-participants.

You can drop-in or be present for the entire thing.

A relaxed gathering for people who enjoy historical clothing and the garments that usually remain hidden beneath it. This program item celebrates undergarments from different historical periods, roughly up to the late twentieth century.

Participants are invited to show, admire, and talk about their pieces, whether they are handmade, thrifted, reconstructed, or improvised. The focus is on craftsmanship, costume culture, and shared enthusiasm in a safe and welcoming environment.

Target group: costume enthusiasts, sewing nerds, historical fashion lovers, and curious participants who enjoy friendly costume appreciation.

It is not meant as an erotic event, but a safe place for people to admire the layers of history.

Inspired by the idea that was hatched by Signe Hornborg last year.

Tabletop roleplaying game / chamber larp about making a horror movie for 5 players.

NOTE ACTUAL TIME IS ABOUT 21:00-22:15*

Our community is full of talent, and we are here to celebrate it with the annual Knutpunkt Cabaret!

Welcoming everyone from season(ed) performers to spring chickens, the show is a compilation of drag performances, stand-up, musical acts, spoken word, and much more. No one knows what the evening will bring, but we will make it one to remember - So join us for this year’s Cabaret and cheer on your fellow folx and fantasts!

*The programme guide only allows for specific chunks of time, but it's not 1h 45 minutes long.

Embrace your inner queer masc energy for our traditional one hour room party! For and by mascs who feel romantic or sexual attraction exclusively or partly towards other mascs, for example gay/bi/pan men (cis or trans) and enbies. It’s also open for those who enjoy their company. Same hosts as previously and the same welcoming energy and wholesome masculinity. Join us for one hour to hang, flirt and have a drink with other mascs.

Come as you are, or dress up in your nicest suit, hottest leather harness or your favorite t-shirt.

Every year since the dawn of humanity, an international cabal of larpers have gathered at midnight of Knutpunkt Saturday to improvise a grand ritual. We have called upon gods and goddesses both old and new, real and fake, silly and serious - and come back wiser, wilder, calmer, more energized, emancipated.

Bring musical instruments. Bring lights.
If this is your first Knutpunkt, you have to ritual.

A somewhat-non-academic brief introduction of the Larp scene in Iceland and its history, that mostly spawned outside of other Nordic and larp fest influence, as imported have-it-your-way scene, through the eyes of the Anthropologist who moved in on it over ten years ago.

Brief start of 'Nerddom in Iceland' and the emergence of Larp as Interesting.

What's up with the divide between the non-player character and the player character? Why would we say that an NPC is "not playing"? What we seem to mean, actually, is that one of these is a valued larp customer, and another is a service provider - a relationship that directly contradicts principles of co-creation and enables dehumanisation, othering, and larping as desire fulfilment without consequence.

At the same time, we're becoming aware of more nuance in the NPC realm. There are interactive actors, instructed players, players whose characters have an oversized amount of decision-making power in-game and thus have a reason to keep their play aligned with the larp as a whole, and many others. I was an actor before I was a larper, and I've been a player who answers to the organisers: instructed characters, directed characters, characters with responsibilities in-game, characters who are destined to die halfway through, organiser characters. It's never sat right with me that these characters aren't fully "larping", or that you can't get all up in your feelings even if you have a secret plot bomb you have to do on the second day. I'd like to take some lessons from theatre and performance to come up with a better framing for what we are doing when we play on behalf of the larp, and extend this framing for all players and organisers.

Roll up your sleeves and put those suspenders on! Bring the grease to your hair and your best polkadotted skirt!
A one hour room party, the 4th in the series of historical dance parties. Other parts of this series has been:
The 60's avantgarde party, The Dirty Dancing party and the Kp goes studio 54.
The hosts will offer a curated playlist with great dancing. We encourage participants to dress up in the style of Rockabilly and early Rock'n'roll. Lets roll those hips in our best 50's clothing!

The Forbidden History is a larp centered around the search for the sublime. By becoming students at the prestigious college of St Theodora's players are encouraged to dare to think, feel and create with irony. Allowed to care deeply about art, philosophy and history.
The magical circle of the larp allows the participants to reconnect with their own hidden selves as they delve into the lives of 20-somethings trying to find themselves in 1986, in a world that is old and changing all at once.

At this program item we want to bring a little bit of St Theodora's to KP. Come, write, paint, discuss, and feel together.

Slip into the Secret Blues Party and let the world slow down for a while.
Soft lights, close embraces, and bluesy melodies invite you to couple dance—or simply sway and feel.
Come as you are, find a partner or a moment, and lose yourself in the music.

We've missed you. Come home. Rose is waiting... We're all here waiting...

Time is my witness is a larp about exploration, puzzle solving, and getting yourself out of an impossible situation through problemsolving and teamwork.

Themes include: Hopelessness, imprisonment, despair, discomfort, secrets, finding oneself, amnesia

TIME TO LAND is a big-scale mix of larp, simulation and board game, for up to 30 players who will either turn the human civilization back on a sustainable track or dive even deeper towards social collapse.

It’s a serious educational game for adults on the topics of sustainability, global politics and social justice. The game is based on the Doughnut Economics book by Kate Raworth. It’s in the development process, we’re very open for feedback from experienced gamers and designers, and to welcome people who would like to facilitate the game in their educational practice.

READ MORE
https://nausika.eu/time-to-land

Narrativists and immersionists will clash in this fight over which playstyle is the "right" way of larping. Welcome to this tongue-in-cheek panel and debate about why we actually larp, and what we want to achieve. Lena Falkenhagen and Peter Edgar will represent the narrativists and Petra Lindve and Siri Sandquist the immersionists. Expect passionate speeches, aggressive banter, and revealing debates.

Flagging has in some parts of the Nordic larp scene become the norm for curating participant lists, helping to steer casting and making sure no unsafe players are allowed at larps with heavy or triggering themes. However flagging comes with its own issues when it comes to handling sensitive information.

How did the flagging system begin?
What are the negative and positive side effects of it as a system?
Are there other solutions that might sometimes be better to use to solve the same issues?

Party for past and future participants and other interested people of the larp Together at Last

Designing, writing, and running a larp collaboratively is a deeply rewarding process, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges. Time management, coordination, and opportunity cost can easily become obstacles, especially once the event is in motion.

In this talk, we want to share how we approach the full lifecycle of a larp, including how we design, write, organize, document, and run the experience. We will walk through the tools, methods, and workflows we use to collaborate efficiently, make better use of our time, and reduce friction during creation, production and play. Our tools can work in any kind of larp.

Our goal is not to present a single “right way” to do things, but to offer concrete tools and lessons learned that may help other teams design and run larps more sustainably. Because if designing and running larps is not sustainable, it does not matter how good the idea is. It will not last.

As the larp scene grow and become more international, more and more local organisers want to reach and international participant base for theor larps.
But how do we prepare our players to embody a cultural context that is foreign to them? How do we prepare them for larp styles and intrinsically known norms in the local larp style that might not overlap with their own perception of larp method and larp design.

In this discussion forum Siri Sandquist will start off sharing some of her thoughts based on her practice as a larp designer and organiser and then we will together brainstorm ways to make local larps more easiy accesible and playable for international players based on our own experiences.

101” might suggest that this talk only covers the basics of costuming, but it’s really aimed at anyone who is curious about the craft. We’ll touch on some practical fundamentals (yes, including why you should wash your fabric first), but the real focus is on sharing tricks, ideas, and a “you can do this” mindset.

Costume making rewards creativity and problem-solving just as much as technical skill—something I’ve learned during my time as a cosplayer. There are many materials and techniques we might not immediately think of when creating LARP costumes, and I’d love to share some of those possibilities.

This talk aims to encourage beginners to take their first steps into costuming, while also inspiring more experienced makers to think outside the box and approach materials and techniques in new ways.

True Nordic is a larp about a larp community in the beginning of a journey of discovery through larp. It is a larp about larpers, relationships and personal development from larp. As a player you will follow your character through larp debriefs, workshops and non-verbal time lapses.

This is how the True Nordic larpers describe themselves.

"True Nordic is the way of transformation and discovering your true self as life is to short to limit it to only be yourself. Every character and challenge is a mirror showing who you are and who you could become. In True Nordic we play the characters that challenge us to grow as humans to help us become our best selves.

This is not about fun or playing history, it’s about self-improvement and deep understanding. That is why the True Nordic way is different, better, fearless.

Find out how much you can let go. Most people think they know their limits, they are wrong. They only know their fears. In True Nordic we will expland your comfort zone. If you want safe – go elsewhere. If you want real, raw, and life-changing – welcome to True Nordic."

As larp designers and organizers, we use magic in multiple ways:
- as game mechanics
- as narrative metaphors
- as quality of experience
- and many others

In this workshop we will co-create a MAP OF MAGIC together with the Participants. We wish to dive deep into different definitions and aspects of magic, based on the particular case studies of the participants. The goal is to share experience between larpers and collect ideas for even more diverse and meaningful use of magic in games.

The content of this workshop is based on the experience of 7 "Larp Alchemy Training Courses" carried out by Nausika Foundation in Poland (https://nausika.eu/larpalchemy), but no preparation and no knowledge of Larp Alchemy is required, we will start from scratch and include every participant.

Disclaimer: this workshop is about magic in larp, please don't expect real magic per se. You don't need to be a magician nor believe in magic to join :)

Main Theme:
Accountability

Gener:
Social realism, political drama, moral reflection

Tone:
Sombre, reflective, confrontational, emotionally charged.

Duration:
2-3 hours total

Target Group:
18+

Number of Players:
14-18

Tag Line:
When the world fell quiet, justice began to whisper.

Description:
In 2065, the world is emerging from decades of political and economic upheaval. As part of a global effort toward “moral restoration,” the International Tribunal for Extinct Nations convenes to examine crimes against peoples and places that no longer exist. Currently, the Tribunal is focusing on Gaza, a name erased from maps but still remembered. The courtroom serves both as a stage and a memorial, with screens displaying reconstructed testimonies, artefacts, and satellite images of the lost city. The audience, now called "witnesses," observes the trials of those accused of, directly or indirectly, contributing to the destruction of Gaza and its inhabitants.

A late night theory presentation, candlelit, down some sketchy alleyway on the wrong side of town. A presentation of new ideas, but we are not sure whether the ideas or the audience are more dangerous ...

Two or three speakers will present their theoretic ideas to an audience, by candlelight with no powerpoint to back them up. The audience? Some supernatural and potentially malevolent beings. Are they faeries, demons, manifestations of greater powers? All we know for sure is that they hunger, either for new ideas, or those bold enough to stand before them.

Do you want to present your next larp or convention?
This is the place to do it.

Fill out this form https://forms.gle/ee5ssvRdcUg28M5N9 before Wednesday the 8th of April 2026 23:59 CET.

This blues party is not secret, but it will be chill, groovy and play a good selection of blues and slow dance music. Anyone can participate, regardless of dance skill - just come and connect on the dance floor.
While the blues party will be playing music from the larp, Valley of Shadow, no experience with the larp is needed.

Are some experiences of pain alright at larps? Do you value physical sensation to find immersion? We will look at violence as an experience and as relational storytelling - not as a show or a cool public scenes. We will workshop how we as players safely explore destructive sides between characters without it being stage fighting. We'll try different techniques for physical oppression to help find what feels but doesn't damage.

What is the best Violets (the flower) candy?

There's only one way to find out!

Any contender should bring their own candy, the only requirement is that it has to be some kind of violets candy. It can be pure violets, or a mix of other flavours, that's up to the contender.

Everyone else should try ALL the different types of candy and vote for their favourite. At the end of the hour, we will have a Champion.

At this workshop you first take part in a short beginner-friendly kung fu inspired workout, followed by a brief presentation of the Online RPG martial arts workout concept. The session will then shift into an open discussion where participants share ideas about how a supportive and inclusive training community for larpers and gamers could be created, while exploring how roleplay, storytelling, and narrative participation might function within an online workout platform. Together we will also imagine what an ideal RPG-inspired workout experience could look like.

This smaller follow-up workshop continues the exploration started in the introductory session. While the first workshop focuses on community building and overall big ideas, this session focuses on designing the underlying gameplay and roleplaying systems.

Together we will explore how physical martial arts training could translate into RPG mechanics and narrative progression within an online platform.

Participants will collaborate in a small design lab format to prototype ideas for how a playful and immersive roleplaying workout experience could function.

Larp organizing in a team often means that some people will become more visible than others. But what about when you are constantly the forgotten organizer? What does it do to you when you're not acknowledged?

In this panel larp organisers and team members will share their experiences. This is a follow-up talk to a program item on invisible organizing from Knudepunkt 2023.

We suck at writing things down.

There are already LARP scripts for games that are intended to be run again. But what about documentation of the process leading to the finished product, and the lessons learned along the way? What was the first idea, and how did it change into something often very different? How did we go from A to B?

Most of the experience and knowledge generated from running LARPs within the LARP community is locked inside the brilliant minds of great organizers. But I believe that we, both as individual organizers and as a larger community, have much to gain from making documentation of LARP organizing both accessible and a central part of a LARP’s lifecycle.

Documentation is awesome. In this talk, I’ll attempt to convince you why.

Program:

- Introduction and hello! (Who?)

- Defining “documentation” (What?)

- Three reasons why documentation is actually awesome (Why?)

- Practicalities and implementation (How?)

- Questions

What would your character do? How is your character helpful to you in real life? In this to talk, you'll see how to summon your character to help in daily life. And learn how to create new characters that help you channel aspects of yourself that you want more of.

This is a special version of my Keynote 'The Power of Imagination'. Normally, weat 'Live Action Learning' teach non-larpers how they can learn from their imagination. Last year at KP we gave a short sneak peak and had 300+ larpers summon their inner Jack Russel. This year, this 45 minute talk will be the full experience!

Winter, in the Knutpunkt program, is a season for looking backward in order to understand lineage, consequence, and future possibility. This workshop focuses on how designers can use artificial intelligence as a reflective tool to study existing physical artifacts from past creative work.

Rather than generating new content, the session examines how journals, handwritten notes, archetype cards, sketches, and other physical materials can be revisited through digital interpretation. Using optical character recognition and language analysis tools, these artifacts are temporarily translated into machine-readable form so they can be organized, clustered, and reflected back to their creators.

The workshop draws on ongoing work developing a conversational role-playing game for the nonprofit and charity sector, where years of journals, notes, and prototype materials are being revisited to understand how ideas evolved and where future designs might go. Artificial intelligence is treated not as an author or decision-maker, but as a means of surfacing patterns that are difficult to see when working alone or from memory.

This is a session about reading what already exists, noticing inherited assumptions, and asking how past materials can responsibly inform future play.

A meet-up for young people at KP, between the age 16-25. A social gathering with the aim to introduce each other and maybe play some social games!