LajvVerkstaden is a non profit organisation with its base in Västerås Sweden, but with projects in all of Europe. We work with larp as a pedagogical method and artform. We design and execute experiences that focuses on participation. We have a great width in our larps, it can be larps for school with the intent to complement the classroom teachings, larps about democracy and equal rights or larps that focuses on the group enjoying themselves together.

Each year we meet thousands of children and youths and every larping experience is unique. Larp is a collaborative storytelling in which everyone participating have the authority to shape and adjust the course of the story. Our participants gets the chance to take control of their own experience and a lot of the time they save the world.

Activities where everyone participates, in opposite to being observers, teach people to take responsibility for themselves and others. Our aim is to help people practice their imagination and creativity and to offer a space where they can dare to challenge themselves and grow. We want to contribute to the making of a braver world where mankind, the school system and corporations work together for a society that is equal, diverse and sustainable.

Our contribution is our method that effectively enhances the participants growing as people and develop their own initiative, self trust and abilities for cooperation. Our goal for larp as a artform is to make it available for a wider audience. We work towards this goal by organizing short free of charge larps where we contribute with all costume and props. For the last 10 years we’ve been organizing free of charge larps during the holidays in cooperation with Swedish municipalities. In this way we create those special holiday experiences available for more children and youths.