An Edu-larp (educational live action roleplay) is a semi-structured role-playing activity, in which participants engage a subject matter by taking on particular roles and/or personas and enacting situations and scenarios to create immersive learning. Edu-larps are often associated with formal learning in schools, but larp as an educational method and as a tool for experiential learning can also be implemented more broadly; in professional design teams, stakeholder groups, at museums, and other semi-formal venues. 

We are hosting a workshop at the 2023 Foundations of Digital Games Conference, which will connect FDG attendees of various disciplines interested in this topic, with the outcome to understand how edu-larp might be an effective way of augmenting existing teaching and research within game research. During the workshop, attendees will participate in numerous edu-larp exercises designed to introduce and orient them to the concept, and facilitate discussion about the different ways edu-larp can be leveraged in the broad domain of games.

We invite researchers and scholars interested in live-action roleplay (larp) to join us for the first edu-larp workshop at FDG 2023. If interested, submit a brief position paper (3-pages maximum) outlining your interest in the topic (how you are using larp or edu-larp as a tool already, or how you are thinking about using it in your own teaching, research or design practice), and a short author biography (one half page). Email your proposal submission to Raquel Robinson, rbrobins@ucsc.edu by February 23, 2023.