Knutpunkt (2022)

Location: Linköping Concert and Congress Hall, Linköping, Sweden 🗺️
Date: 9. - 12. September 2022

Part of: Knudepunkt

About the convention:

1h room party:
60's avantgarde extravaganza (Anna-Karin Linder, Frida Lindegren, Niclas Helk)
AQUA 25 years (Adam Hansson, Sanna Vuorenmaa)
Austrian Roomparty (Kevin Blank, Olivia Fischer)
Birthday Party! (Tyra Grasmo)
Cold war and champagne (Ida Foss, Martin Nielsen)
Dagmars Marrige Anticipation Party (Dominika Kovacova, Maria Kolseth Jensen)
Disney/Musical sing-along! (Laura Sirola, Linn Wilhelmsson)
German Room Party (Lotta Bjick, Tina Bjick)
Getting the band back together (Hannu Sinervä, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas)
Hug-Me! (Hanne Grasmo)
Larpwriter summerschool party (Dagmar Wiesnerova)
Let’s dance - the swedish way (Mikaela Lindh)
Roman Emperor Dance Party (Emma Cecilie Pax Winther, Stephanie Lemaitre)
That Gay One Hour Party (Jaakko Stenros, Tor Kjetil Edland)
The Femme Affair (Anni Tolvanen, Eleanor Saitta)
The Finno-Ugric Cabal (Balint Mark Turi, Mátyás Hartyándi)
The Sad Party (Andreas Wei Markehed, Jesper Holmén Notander)
Trespass! (Frida Lindegren, Jesper Holmén Notander)
Welcome to the Future is Straight! (Anna Emilie Groth, Fredrik Hatlestrand, Karete Jacobsen Meland, Tor Kjetil Edland)
Yarr matey abolish gender (Lotta Bjick, Stefan Deutsch)

Discussion forum:
Being male and safe in larp (Andreas Lykke Jensen)
Conversations on Feminist Larping (Anneli Friedner)
Designing historical larps (Alma Elofsson Edgar, Mimmi Lundkvist, Rosalind Göthberg)
Disabilities, seen and unseen (Andreas Lykke Jensen)
How larpers can take responsibility in a larp (Katrine Wind)
Interweaving your narrative and relationships (Sandy Bailly)
LARP for Sustainability: education, action, hope (Miles Lizak)
Let us in! (Mikaela Lindh, Nicolai Lindh)
Show and tell (Berber Wierda)
Stand-up Misery (Thomas Steinbrenner)
Sustainability, Data Sovereignty, Fun? Let's talk! (Simon Salem Müller)

Social:
1920-speakeasy (Knutpunkt General)
Bi Pan Party (Kol Ford, Rebel Rehbinder, Sagalinn Tangen, Sarah Jane "SJ" Murdock)
COLOR ME FABULOUS FOR FREE! (Knutpunkt General)
Contact Improvisation Jam (Mikaela Lindh)
DANCEOKE (Knutpunkt General)
DJ Adam James (Adam James)
DJ Evil M versus Captain Invisible (Martine Helene Svanevik, Simon Brind)
DJ ILSKAN (Kajsa Seinegård)
DJ In Character (Allan Eising)
DJ KALLE LANTZ (Kalle Lantz)
DJ KNUTPUNKT (Knutpunkt General)
Debutante ball (Mikaela Lindh, Nicolai Lindh)
High on Knutpunkt (Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, Mo Holkar, Sarah Lynne Bowman)
Howling at the moon (Sarah Jane "SJ" Murdock)
KP TV (Charles Bo Nielsen, Hilde Amalie Koch, Jost L. Hansen, Natascha Lerche-Jensen)
KP first timer's hour (Charles Bo Nielsen)
Lunchdisco (Knutpunkt General)
MUSIC (Knutpunkt General)
Meet New People (Miriam Lundqvist, Petter Karlsson)
Midnight ritual (Mike Pohjola)
Movement Room (Nina Runa Essendrop)
Music Creatures Cafe (Jonathan Goldsmith, Nina Runa Essendrop)
Poetry soiree (Berber Wierda)
Sorry for the canadian kiosk (Jamie MacDonald)
Strange Fascinations Varieté Show (Halfdan Keller Justesen, Jamie MacDonald, Jørn Slemdal, Margrete Raaum, Rasmus Teilmann, Tyra Grasmo)
Strobes, smoke and basslines (Sebastian Utbult)
THEME PARTY COLORS (Knutpunkt General)
The Groundhog Day Social Exercise (Mátyás Hartyándi)
The Secret Blues Party (Andreas von Knobloch)
The Sentient Grove listening garden (Aron Birtalan)
Ukrainian human library - fundraiser event (Anastasiia Zotova, Anastasiya Kuznyetsova, Daria Kroshka, Kateryna Esterle)
Uncommons Room (Nadja Lipsyc)

Talk/panel:
!!How to larp design reality?? (Edward Fornieles, Eleanor Saitta, Jaakko Stenros, Martin Nielsen, Nina Runa Essendrop)
"Fortitude" larp - the art of adaptability (Zbigniew Janczukowicz)
Asymmetrical (online) larp design (Adrian Hvidbjerg Poulsen, Mia Kyhn)
Cheaper larps, Larpfund and anti-terrorist laws (Erland Nylund, Petter Karlsson)
Dancing in Larp - Experiences and best practices (Andreas von Knobloch)
Dancing in Larp - approaches and tools (Andreas von Knobloch)
Designers' Hour: Beginnings (Søren Ebbehøj)
Designers' Hour: Dropouts (Søren Ebbehøj)
Documentation and memes! (Charles Bo Nielsen)
Evening Show: Creating magic (Eva Wei, Knutpunkt General)
Evening Show: Making the choice (Eva Wei, Knutpunkt General)
Evening Show: Welcome to Knutpunkt! (Eva Wei, Knutpunkt General)
Expectations design: how to jump into the dark (Alessandro Giovannucci)
Fiume Crisis - an Edu-larp project (Balint Mark Turi, Fanny Hajdú, Matija Mihoković, Miroslav Wranka)
From Communication Support to Taking the Rails (Björn-Ole Kamm, Kohei KATO)
GDPR and larp organizing (Simon Lindman Svensson)
Gameism as a tool for immersion. (Thor Forsell)
Gay camp sex-techniques: What we learned (Anna Emilie Groth, Karete Jacobsen Meland)
Hawa - a scientific larp about machine vision (Sebastian Sjøvold)
Horsing Around (Kol Ford, Sagalinn Tangen)
Knutpunkt 2022 Closing Ceremony (Knutpunkt General)
Knutpunkt 2022 Opening ceremony Knutpunkt (General)
Larp Design Fireside Chat (Bjarke Pedersen, Juhana Pettersson)
Larp for everyone (Leandro Godoy)
Leadership research, larp & funny hats (Mátyás Hartyándi)
Make larp, not stress! (Arvid Bjørklund, Katrin Førde, Magnar Perstølen)
Megagames for a sustainable society (Ola Leifler)
Methods learned from Video Game Design (Kevin Blank)
Morning Show: The Elevator Pitch Problem (Knutpunkt General)
Morning Show: What’s next? (Knutpunkt General)
Morning Show: When something happens (Knutpunkt General)
Practical sound design in larp (Hannu Sinervä)
Pushing for sex? A theory of Double Alibi (Hanne Grasmo)
Sensommervisen: Feel-good larp amidst the pandemic (Maria Østerby Elleby)
So many castles, so little time (Karsten Dombrowski)
Storytelling and larp (Carolina Renman)
Swedish election night (Knutpunkt General)
The Future is Straight: Post Mortem (Anna Emilie Groth, Arvid Bjørklund, Karete Jacobsen Meland, Karin Tidbeck, Kaya Toft Thejls, Tor Kjetil Edland)
The Knutpunkt News (Mike Pohjola)
The Larp Lens - larp photography (Martin Lindelien)
The Transformative Play Initiative Research Report (Josefin Westborg, Josephine Baird, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, Sarah Lynne Bowman)
Training the next generation of danish larpers (Anders Gredal Berner, Ann Christensen, Eva Mærsk, Maria Østerby Elleby, Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo)
Ukrainian larpers: Staying together in time of war (Anastasiia Zotova, Anastasiya Kuznyetsova, Daria Kroshka, Kateryna Esterle, Max Tiseyko)
Upcoming LARPS and Conventions (Jost L. Hansen)
What would LARP be like in VR? (Bjarke Pedersen, Josephine Rydberg, Nadja Lipsyc, Rasmus Høgdall)
What’s new in larp? (Eirik Fatland, Janusz Maxe, Nadja Lipsyc)

Workshop:
"What's in your pocket?" -A battle of wits (Jørn Slemdal, Karin Tidbeck)
"Yes, and..." Improvisation for LARPers (Miles Lizak)
Are You Being Heard? Taking space and making space (Laura Wood, Mo Holkar)
Birth of a LARP (Jost L. Hansen)
Building player chemistry (Liv Hernø-Toftild)
CANCELLED: The pre-game workshop - share and learn (Anders Hultman)
Dance Cards & Drama (or, Footsteps & Flirting) (Mia Welander)
Focus group study on gender exploration in larp (Kaya Toft Thejls)
Good to be bad - practical stealing and lying (Alva Mårdsjö)
Heavy Mëtal Fight Club - techniques for violence (Kirsi Oesch, Nina Teerilahti, Tonja Goldblatt)
How to strategize Marketing for LARPs (Mary Buennagel)
Larps through poetry (Laura Wood)
Leading with larp magic (Moa Rönnåsen)
Morning workout (Søren Ebbehøj)
Mystical Relationships and Participatory Arts (Aron Birtalan, Gabriel Widing, Maren Wolf)
Prototypes for post-dramatic roleplaying (Gabriel Widing)
Role-Playing from Japan: Hands-on Play Session (Björn-Ole Kamm, Keiko KATO, Kohei KATO, Sabine Schenk)
Self Esteem and sexiness projection (Mireya Harillo Gámez)
The Quiet Year - Collaborative Worldbuilding (Evgeny Farber, Katrin Geneuss, Lucas Walzer)
The player's character sheet (Karl Bergström)
Warm-up workshop for first-time larpers (Olivia Fischer)
Writing highly larpable characters (Katrine Wind)
Your character CAN dance! Folk dance for larpers. (Sharon Underberg)

Organizers

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