RESEARCH & TEACHING

I am an experienced lecturer, workshop leader and speaker, having worked with several prolific international institutions and universities. I give workshops and lectures and writes essays on the following topics: immersive scenography and stage design / participative game design / transformative role play / play in public and hybrid spaces

if you are interested plz contact them via contact[at]wanjaneite[dot]com

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RESEARCH:

WALDEN / WALDGANG [2023-24]: Research project on the history of story-telling in the dying landscape of “harz” mountain range & on designing participatory playforms about agency concerning environmental processes / Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste / read more in the LOOT section

CLIMATE CREATURES [2024]: Research project and game design tool box on habitat and territories of interspecies community in urban spaces / with play.vienna, Waldritter e.V. & Frauke Rubarth / funded by Erasmus+ & European Union
@Klima Biennale Wien 2024
@Drama Games Festival 2024

PLAYING IN THE SPACES BETWEEN [2023]: Essay about the potentials and pitfalls of an emerging play culture in hybrid spaces / published in the book “landscape, performance, participation”
@Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

GLOBAL VILLAGE DREAMS [2023]: Three artisitic laboratories on “sustainable audience development of immersive hybrid formats for urban & rural areas” by DOS.FAIL / funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste
@Freie Universität Berlin
@Verstehbahnhof Fürstenberg
@Kampnagel Hamburg

HEALING LARP: PHOTO ESSAY [2022]: Published in “Distance Of Touch” book
@Knutepunkt Conference 2022 in Linköping, Sweden

THERE’S ALWAYS A HUB [2019]: essay on designing spaces for immersive play and role play games at “larpocalypse” book
@Zauberfeder Verlag, braunschweig

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TEACHING & WORKSHOPS (SELECTION):

TRANSFORMATIVE & IMMERSIVE PLAY [2024-25]: Lectureship at University Hildesheim

HYBRID PLAY CULTURE IN THE SPACES BETWEEN [2024]: Workshop program at 6 schools in Brandenburg, Germany

TALKING LIVE ROLE PLAY SCENOGRAPHY [2019-2023]: Talk on designing spaces for immersive play and role play games /
@Larp Alchemy Seminar with Nausika / Krakow, Poland
@Knutepunkt Conference / Oslo, Norway
@Mittelpunkt Conference by DLRV e.V., Germany

PLAYING IN HYBRID SPACES [2023]: Presentation on theatre and game production for hybrid spaces with DOS.FAIL
@B.A.L.L. Conference by Fonds Dakü & Kampnagel, Hamburg

HACKING IMMERSIVE SPACES: Talk on power dynamics in immersive and public space design
@Artville Symposium, Hamburg, 2022
@CCC-Conference (Chaos Computer Club), Hamburg, 2024
@A.Maze Conference, Berlin, 2024

IMMERSIVE LANDSCAPES [2022]: Talk on frameworks for participative and immersive performance & role play games
@Tagung Landschaf(f)t, University Koblenz-Landau

PARTICIPATIVE PLAY AND EMPOWERMENT [2021]:
@Kunsthalle Schweinfurt

LARP: A FAMILY REUINION [2020]: Workshop and Talk on Nordic Larp and related immersive play forms
@Larp.Com Seminar by Gesellschaft für Liverollenspiel e.V. (GfLR)

REPRESENTATION IN LIVE ROLE PLAY [2020]: Workshop and Talk on embodyment and (queer) representation in larp
@Luftschloss Barcamp by Siebensprung

SPIELT, SPIELT! SONST SIND WIR VERLOREN [2019]: Collection of role play workshops on climate activism with
@Climate Camp Berlin, with Steve Deutsch

WAS DENN? [2019]: Role play workshop on gender roles and societal norms
@Schöne Aussichten Symposium, University of applied Schience and Arts, Hanover