This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage.
Description:
Modern museum education has a focus on interactivity and visitor engagement. Edu-larp expands traditional teaching methods and facilitates the development of historical and cultural empathy. This keynote will reflect on the experiences and challenges of designing edu-larps for a museal context, and how engagement in history learning and a personal connection to the past can be created.
Bio:
Liv Hernø-Toftild is an Historian and museum professional, with a focus on learning- and experience design. They have combined their background in cultural studies and didactics with a long career in larping, both as a participant, designer, and educator. With experience from the National Museum of Denmark and the Museum of Western Zealand, they have used methods from larping to facilitate student engagement in museal educational programs. Their emphasis is on designing edu-larps, creating cultural understanding and historical empathy, and boosting intrinsic motivation and interest in learning.
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This seminar is hosted by the Transformative Play Initiative in the Games & Society Lab at the Department of Game Design, Uppsala University Campus Gotland. This seminar is made possible by financial support from the Sustainable Heritage Research Forum (SuHRF). The Transformative Play Initiative explores the use of analog role-playing games as vehicles for lasting personal and social change.
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Graphic Design by Liliia Chorna. Music by Elias Faltin. Video edited by Rezmo (Mohammad Mohammad Rezaie).