{"pk":65739,"title":"Climate Larps: Environmental Design in Nordic Larp","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay close reads three sets of environmental or climate larps: first, there are those that simulate political or diplomatic summits: Pig Grove, Tree of Life, Fortitude, Forecasters, Baltic Warriors; second are larps as pseudo-fictional workshops: Cyborg Gaia Allies, A Ceremony for Hope; and third are blackbox larps, which make use of lighting, audio, props, and other means of stagecraft to create spaces for collaborative storytelling: The Ark, Spillover, From the Ashes, Leviathan. The essay hopes to stimulate a productive, creative discussion about game design, cultural expression, politics, and the affordances and limitations of climate larps.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"LARP"},{"word":"environmental games"},{"word":"climate larp"},{"word":"blackbox larp"},{"word":"game design"},{"word":"storytelling"},{"word":"politics"},{"word":"Leviathan"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91g135z9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"","last_name":"op de Beke","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2023-09-18T14:32:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/analoggamestudies/article/65739/galley/50385/download/"}]}