Author: Sarah Lynne Bowman
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Upcoming event: Narrative Design for Transformation: Encouraging and Enabling Transformative Play
Join us for our lecture in the Erasmus EDGE Event Series: “Narrative Design for Transformation: Encouraging and Enabling Transformative Play” by Halfdan Keller Justesen, Martine Svanevik, and Sagalinn Tangen from Avalon Larp Studio. This event is part of our Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership for curriculum development in transformative game design. When: Tuesday, January 21 from 7:00-8:30pm
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EDGE Planning Session in Oslo, Norway!
The Erasmus EDGE team assembled for two days in Oslo, Norway to plan the next steps for the project! The group met in a converted building that used to serve as an electrical transformer for a city block in Oslo. They brainstormed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats around the use of technology in larp. They
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EDGE Lecture at Oslo School of Architecture and Design!
On November 28, Uppsala University’s Kjell Hedgard Hugaas and Sarah Lynne Bowman had a wonderful time presenting content from the Erasmus EDGE curriculum for Oslo School of Architecture and Design! While EDGE volunteer Nadja Lipsyc showed them around the school, the students also shared their creative interactive design projects created in the school’s impressive makerspace.
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Full Lumen website now available!
The full website for Lumen is now available! Click here to read about the larp. Lumen is a larp about a group of seeming strangers – the seekers – who attend a retreat at a mysterious location known only as Hope. There is magic to be found at Hope, for those who truly need it.
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Erasmus EDGE at the ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference!
On October 7, Uppsala University’s Josefin Westborg and Sarah Lynne Bowman represented Erasmus EDGE and the Transformative Play Initiative at the ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference in Tartu, Estonia! They presented a workshop for the Serious Games track based on our Master’s in Transformative Game Design curriculum entitled “How to Use Role-playing Games in Teaching.”
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Erasmus+ EDGE’s site visit in Florence!
Erasmus+ EDGE had a productive and enlightening site visit for the larp they are designing, Lumen: A Journey to Hope! Lumen will be run in a former convent for monks outside of Florence, Italy October 2-5, 2025. Avalon Larp Studio led the design workshop sessions and Chaos League guided us through the venue. We are
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Save the Date: Lumen – The Journey to Hope
Lumen is a larp about a group of seeming strangers – the seekers – who attend a retreat at a mysterious location known only as Hope. There is magic to be found at Hope, for those who truly need it. Through unorthodox rituals and mystical practices the seekers confront their deepest struggles and guide others
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Video available: Immersive Aesthetics: VR, Larp, and Art
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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Video available: Mud in the Machine — Making the Most of Your Next VR Larp
The video and captions are now available for “Mud in the Machine: Making the Most of Your Next VR Larp” by Josephine Rydberg! Stay tuned for more events from the Transformative Play Initiative and the Erasmus+ EDGE project. Click here to watch the video. Description: This lecture provides an introduction to larping in virtual reality.
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Upcoming Event: Mud in the Machine — Making the Most of Your Next VR Larp
Join us for our lecture in the Erasmus EDGE Event Series: “Mud in the Machine: Making the Most of Your Next VR Larp” by Josephine Rydberg! This bonus event is part of our Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership for curriculum development in transformative game design. When: Tuesday, August 13 from 7:00-8:30pm CEST Where: Online on Zoom Register at this