TY - CHAP

T1 - I Play Roles, Therefore I Am

T2 - Placing Larp in a Borader Cultural Perspective

AU - Sandvik, Kjetil

AU - Waade, Anne Marit

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - The attention paid to live-action role-playing and other forms of leisure role-playing has exploded over the past few years, both due to the fact that the role-playing community continues to attract a lot of new members, the fact that role-playing as a creative, self-organizing and self-reflecting activity is getting an increasingly growing attention from the media, and the fact that educators, teachers, and development consultants have discovered the potential inherent in role-playing, both as an idea and a strategy. In this essay, we place leisure role-playing in a broader perspective, not only in relation to actual phenomena in mediatized popular culture (such as computer games) or to storytelling in organizations, but also in relation to role-playing as a tradition and theoretical consideration within education, theatre, and the social sciences. The points and discussions are based on our book Rollespil - i æstetisk, pædagogisk og kulturel sammenhæng (2006), which is the first Danish academic anthology on role-playing as an aesthetic, educational, and cultural phenomenon.

AB - The attention paid to live-action role-playing and other forms of leisure role-playing has exploded over the past few years, both due to the fact that the role-playing community continues to attract a lot of new members, the fact that role-playing as a creative, self-organizing and self-reflecting activity is getting an increasingly growing attention from the media, and the fact that educators, teachers, and development consultants have discovered the potential inherent in role-playing, both as an idea and a strategy. In this essay, we place leisure role-playing in a broader perspective, not only in relation to actual phenomena in mediatized popular culture (such as computer games) or to storytelling in organizations, but also in relation to role-playing as a tradition and theoretical consideration within education, theatre, and the social sciences. The points and discussions are based on our book Rollespil - i æstetisk, pædagogisk og kulturel sammenhæng (2006), which is the first Danish academic anthology on role-playing as an aesthetic, educational, and cultural phenomenon.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - live rollespil

KW - æstetik

KW - kultur

KW - pædagogik

KW - Rollespl i æstetisk, pædagogisk og kulturel sammenhæng

KW - live role playing games

KW - aesthetics

KW - culture

KW - education

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-87-989377-1-5

SP - 237

EP - 244

BT - Lifelike

A2 - Donnis, Jesper

A2 - Gade, Morten

A2 - Thorup, Lise

PB - Projektgruppen KP07

CY - København

ER -