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| | | | | In this blogpost, Doctoral Researcher Hanne Grasmo reports from her new university course, Larp Design in Theory and Practice, where the students used their own bodies to role-play serious, impactful, and even erotic scenes in Nordic-style larps. She discusses how physical bodies and other materiality impact play-experience and emotions in a study context. | |
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| | | | | Participants often engage in role-playing in order to step inside the shoes of another person in a fictional reality that they consider "consequence-free." However, role-players sometimes experience moments where their real life feelings, thoughts, relationships, and physical states spill over into their characters' and vice versa. In role-playing studies, we call this phenomenon bleed.[1]Markus Montola, "The Positive Negative Experience in Extreme Role-playing."Proceedings ofDiGRANordic 2010: Experienci... | |
| | | | | soundstudiesblog.com | |
| | | | | Editor's Note: Welcome toSounding Out!'sfall series titled"Sound and Play," where we ask how sound studies, as a discipline, can help us to think through several canonical perspectives on play. While Johan Huizinga had once argued that play is the primeval foundation from which all culture has sprung, it is important to ask where sound fits... | |
| | | | | innovate-edu.com | |
| | | In "Dancing with the Stars" I talked about what a classroom with 10,000 students might be like. The transformation of higher education has begun, and the pace of that change is accelerating. Dick Lipton's blog Godel's Lost Letter has since attracted tens of thousands more. It is a virtual seminar that, for example, coordinated a... | ||