Martin Nielsen runs Alibier, an Oslo-based company that makes educational larps. He is an enthusiastic member of the black box larp scene, and is the head organizer of Grenselandet chamberlarp festival and the Blackbox Deichman chamberlarp series in Oslo.
Site: Alibier.no
Twitter: @mart_nielsen
With the goal to create a more fun and fantastic society, the project driven organisation Fantasiforbundet really has done just that, in many parts of the world. In this talk, Martin Nielsen gives you the story of how the brought roleplaying and larp to kids in a refugee camps.
Martin Nielsen, political scientist of education, has his dayjob in UngOrg, an NGO promoting empowerment of young people in Oslo. He has been larping since 1999 and has been a key contributor to Fantasiforbundet’s projects in Lebanon, Belarus and Palestine as well as meeting places such as Grenselandet, Knutepunkt in Norway and The Larpwriter Summer School. He is also partner in the company Alibier AS that works with participatory methods, including larp.
Site: Fantasiforbundet
Project site: Fantasiforbundet’s project portal