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Safer play is a moving target, but a critical one. Let’s have a conversation about participation safety for tabletop and live action play, focusing on design and implementation. We can discuss techniques for structuring and presenting safety material as well as tried and true tools and metatechniques to consider. What’s the right combination for your game? Bring your own experiences and questions.
Speakers
Jason Morningstar (he/him) is the Creative Director at Bully Pulpit Games. He makes tabletop and live action roleplaying games as well as consults with companies and educational institutions around combining playful experiences with teaching and learning.
Johanna Koljonen (she/her) (co-founder, Participation Design Agency) is an experience designer, theorist and strategic consultant, and an expert in designing for safe and enthusiastic participation. She lectures internationally on larp, participatory storytelling, and on the future of the audiovisual industries, as well as advising cultural institutions and both public and private sector clients on participation and immersive experiences. Her latest book is Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences (2019), for which she was lead editor. Her Nostradamus Report on the near future of the screen industries has an international following and is presented annually at film markets such as Cannes Marché du Film. Her first career was in broadcasting, and she still hosts the occasional public service radio series. In 2011, she received the Swedish Grand Journalism Award in the Innovator category. She is an occasional writer of drama, comics, and digital games.
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