Role Play (as) Research
This site is a platform for role play as collective inquiry of social forms. Intended as a resource that supports practice, it gathers techniques, scores and theory emerging from the intersections of play, performance and philosophy. Collecting methods such as prefigurative play, collective worlding, social dreaming, it registers ways to engage the social relations that shape perception, the production of meaning, and experience. It is a platform invested in the fusion of critical theory with techniques of (live-action) roleplay to develop forms of collaborative research that mediate between the abstract and concrete. It considers process-based methodologies as rehearsals that probe conditions for possibility and (re)enact potential histories. The site is currently hosted by Carina Erdmann, Steph Holl-Trieu and Nick Koppenhagen