J
aakko Stenros (PhD) is a game and play researcher working at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies (at the Game Research Lab, University of Tampere). He has published seven books and over 50 articles and reports and has taught game studies and internet studies for almost a decade. He is currently working on understanding the form of games, the making of larps, and uncovering the aesthetics of social play, but his research interests include norm-defying play, rules, queer play, role-playing games, pervasive games, and playfulness. His work has received many awards, such as the prize for the best dissertation of the year at the University of Tampere. Stenros has also collaborated with artists and designers to create ludic experiences and has curated exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Games. He lives in Helsinki, Finland.
Jaakko Stenros is an author of Playfulness, Play, and Games: A Constructionist Ludology Approach (2015) and Pervasive Games: Theory and Design (2009), as well as an editor of four books on role-playing games: The Magic of Participation (2017), Nordic Larp (2010), Playground Worlds (2008) and Beyond Role and Play (2004). His most recent book is Minun pelihistoriani (2018), an edited collection which documents personal play and gaming histories.
Contact: Game Research Lab / TRIM, Kanslerinrinne 1, FI-33014, University of Tampere, Finland; firstname (dot) lastname (at) iki (dot) fi or via telephone at +358 (0)40 752 0515.
Photograph by Jamie MacDonald.
