The video and captions are now available for “Immersive Aesthetics: VR, Larp, and Art” by Nadja Lipsyc! Stay tuned for more events from the Transformative Play Initiative and the Erasmus+ EDGE project. Click here to watch the video. Description: This research explores the aesthetics of immersive and interactive storytelling in Virtual Reality, around the development…

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The Erasmus EDGE project is excited to share photos from our two dissemination events in April in Tampere, Finland related to our Tech Toolkit! For A Week in Finland 2024 before the Solmukohta Nordic Larp conference, we developed a chamber larp called Meet Me Halfway. The larp featured 12 characters trying to find their soul…

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Join us for our lecture in the Erasmus EDGE Event Series: “Larp and Community: Between Design and Ethnography” by Cosmo Esposito and Alessandro Giovannucci from Chaos League! This event is part of our Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership for curriculum development in transformative game design. When: Tuesday, March 19 from 7:00-8:30pm CET Where: Online on Zoom Register…

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Video available: Role-playing with Kids: Creating Transformative Experiences for Children Under 12   The video and captions are now available for Role-playing with Kids: Creating Transformative Experiences for Children Under 12″ by Angie Bandoesingh at Dragon’s Nest! This event was our first dissemination activity for EDGE.   Click here to watch the video. Description of…

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Hello, We’re excited to share two events — a larp and a workshop — the Erasmus EDGE project will run in April in Tampere, Finland before Solmukohta, the Nordic larp conference! These events are connected to our Tech Toolkit. Meet Me Halfway is a short larp scenario for 10 people about soul mates reincarnating into new…

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Upcoming Event February 6: Role-playing with Kids: Creating Transformative Experiences for Children Under 12 Join us for our first lecture in the Erasmus EDGE Event Series: “Role Playing with Kids: Creating Transformative Experiences for Children Under 12” by Angie Bandhoesingh from Dragons’ Nest! This event is part of our Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership for curriculum development…

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We had a wonderful time at our hybrid in-person Kickoff event in Visby, Sweden Nov. 14-15, 2023! We had meetings for all five work packages, including planning our additions to the curriculum (WP2), our textbook and implementation guide (WP3), our Tech Tookit (WP4), and our larp to teach transformative game design (WP5). The consortium was…

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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Empowering Game Design Education with Transformative Role-playing Games (EDGE) — An Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education! The EDGE consortium consists of Uppsala University (Sweden), Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Dragons Nest (Greece), Chaos League (Italy), and Avalon Larp Studio (Norway).   EDGE is creating empowering game…

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