The Floating Market 2012
Understockholm – The Floating Market was run in Stockholm, 7-9 September 2012. The larp was organized by Sofia Stenler, Annica Strand and Annika Lykta.
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The larp centered around the theme of belonging and exclusion, and what happens to people who have fallen through society’s broken safety net and try to find shelter in a strange underworld.
The larp ran for one day and centered around “The Floating Market”. The day was divided into four sections (almost act-like), each with a different theme. There were two pre-larp meetups with workshops in Stockholm, and there were additional workshops on site before gamestart. The larp had around 100 participants and was an immensely colorful display of co-creativity, imagination and grit.
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The project had a heavy focus on co-creation. The universe and lore was co-created with participant at the Prolog conference, two years earlier.There were no pre-written characters but the players were encouraged to create characters and groups that fit within the universe of UnderStockholm, that were then approved by the organizers.
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In a collaboration between Understockholm, Mobile life’s researchproject Codename:Heroes and Stockholms Stadsbibliotek a group that were not players visited the larp in a bus as part of their experience that day.