Big news! We are delighted to announce that members of Uppsala University are partnering with larp practitioners and academics in a new EU-funded project in Horizon Europe, ‘Larpocracy: Developing Spaces for Deliberation and Democratic Skills through Role-playing’. UU’s Informatics and…
Dates: June 12-13, 2025 Times: 9-5pm both days Location: Visby, Sweden, on the island of Gotland The Transformative Play Initiative at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design is co-hosting a two-day seminar on Games, Conflict, and Education directly following the…
We have created an archive that contains games developed for transformative purposes by students in the Transformative Game Design Certificate Track. Click this link to browse the games.
This poster presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to preserving intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through games. From combined game…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Playing games is at the heart of the workshop “Serious Games for Intercultural Learning” offered by the Intercultural Learning…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: The educational program “Everyday life in the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki, Greece: An experiential approach with the method Edu…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Read full article here: Description: Some of the most popular role-playing games (RPGs) limit the potential for diversity among…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Many larp workshops aim to harmonize player cultures, norms and expectations for their engagement in fiction to flow seamlessly…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: This research examines gender difference, associated norms, and their effect on the ability to deeply participate in gameplay. Since…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Role play is a foundational component of established forms of psychotherapy such as psychodrama (Kipper 1992). Recent literature has…