Enjoy our next lecture in the Spring 2022 season of the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “Designing Intensity: A Case Study of an Extraordinary 24h Scenario Session ” by Lauri Lukka!
Description: Short live action role-playing scenarios have considerable potential in creating personal insight and understanding. Yet, what happens when the already intensive scenario format is pushed to the limit in an intense 24h gaming session that combines numerous scenarios? The lecture reflects on the psychological, emotional, and social dynamics of an experimental, exceptional gaming session. The post-mortem begins with concept design, continues to participant selection, designing the game content, and game-mastering in the session. The evaluation concludes with participants’ self-reported impacts two years later. The case description illuminates the tension between intensity and safety, aspects that are both required for personal growth.
Presenter bio: Lauri Lukka is a licensed psychologist and a designer. As a psychologist, he has focused on clinical psychology and therapeutic interventions. As a designer, he has written several freeform scenarios and papers on the intersection of psychology and games. Currently, he works as a senior service designer in an IT and strategy consultancy and writes his PhD in Aalto University on game-based digital therapeutics.