I've found, at least for my personal experience, that dipping my toes into larp academia has greatly helped me create, experience, and enjoy larps. I admit that most of the stuff is a slog, and I far prefer to read blueprints and recollections of other larps (the documentation) than the navel-gazing PhD theses. But sometimes there's something in particular that inspires me. Other times it's just the general collection, as I think was the case with STEEDS, which I know was influenced by larp theory.
I consider myself a larp producer and player, not larp theorist. However, I believe that Miles Davis's Kind of Blue wouldn't exist if there wasn't musical theory of modality as a muse.
Birds don't need to understand a whit about aeronautics to fly. But for those of us who aren't creative prodigies, a scientific explanation may provoke a eureka moment.
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I've found, at least for my personal experience, that dipping my toes into larp academia has greatly helped me create, experience, and enjoy larps. I admit that most of the stuff is a slog, and I far prefer to read blueprints and recollections of other larps (the documentation) than the navel-gazing PhD theses. But sometimes there's something in particular that inspires me. Other times it's just the general collection, as I think was the case with STEEDS, which I know was influenced by larp theory.
I consider myself a larp producer and player, not larp theorist. However, I believe that Miles Davis's Kind of Blue wouldn't exist if there wasn't musical theory of modality as a muse.
Birds don't need to understand a whit about aeronautics to fly. But for those of us who aren't creative prodigies, a scientific explanation may provoke a eureka moment.