Keynote Speaker: Kaisa Kangas

Kaisa Kangas is a larp designer with nearly 30 years of experience. She is most known for the Palestinian-Nordic larps Halat hisar and Seaside Prison. Kaisa is the artistic producer of the Immersion Larp Festival. Her latest work is the larp Hyvät museovieraat (Dear Museum Visitors) created together with the Amos Rex art museum for their exhibition I Feel, for Now.

Kaisa has written numerous articles about larp and is the editor-in-chief of the 2024 Solmukohta book Liminal Encounters and the 2016 book Larp Politics. Her non-fiction book about larp for a general audience (in Finnish) is coming out this year. 

In 2025, she was awarded a one-year grant for artistic work on larp by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Kaisa Kangas