Jonathan Jung Johansen

ITU – IT university of Copenhagen

Jonathan Jung Johansen is a pen-and-paper roleplaying game designer and game scholar. He studied a B.A in Arts & Technology at Aalborg University, where his B.A thesis and following publications revolved around the meeting point between playful, aesthetic experiences and human robot collaboration.
He is studying an M.A in Game Design at the IT University of Copenhagen, where he researches how digital games and pen and paper roleplaying games in different ways structure the players possibility to take aesthetic and meaningful action, and how players appropriate these structures to their own means.

Interests include: Play, Roleplaying game design, Game Studies, Performance Art, Installation Art, Clowning

Selected Work:

Academic Articles

  • Milthers, A. D. B., Bjerre Hammer, A., Jung Johansen, J., Jensen, L. G.,
    Jochum, E. A., & Löchtefeld, M. (2019). The Helpless Soft Robot –
    Stimulating Human Collaboration through Robotic Movement
  • Johansen, J. J., Jensen, L. G., & Bemman, B. (2020). Evaluating
    interactions with a cognitively biased robot
    in a creative collaborative task.

    • Roleplaying Workshop

  • Johansen, J. J. (2016). First Steps – Adventuring Workshop • 2016 supplement winner. Retrieved October 12, 2020, from 200 Word RPG challenge https://200wordrpg.github.io/2016/supplement/winner/2016/04/17/FirstStepsAdventuringWorkshop.html

    • All Sessions by Jonathan Jung Johansen

    • 1. Young Academics Workshop

      Nov. 18

    • 12:10  - 12:30
      Atmospheres are imagined spaces that yet manage to impress ourselves upon us physically, with goosebumps, frisson, or the relaxation of the tension (Pallasmaa, 2014). These atmospheres exist only inside the mind of the experiencer. Atmosphere in buildings cannot be reduced to the formal qualities of a space: Juhaani Pallasmaa argues that atmosphere is a multi-sensory, culturally involved process, particular to the place it is experienced, noting that they are an intermediate between the perceiver and the world that invokes the perceivers entire sense of being (Pallasmaa, 2014, p. 231)Gerhard Bohme argues in “The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres” that the aesthetic impressions of a phenomena, its atmosphere, may be created by the tuning its environment. Bohme likens this to setting a stage, and argues that the creation of atmospheres can be understood through the concrete praxis of stage-setting (Böhme, 2013, p. 4,5). Viewed in this manner, the atmosphere is intimately tied to the situation where it is experienced, and there may be concrete procedures with which to tune the environment. Through these two lenses, roleplaying is the setting of a stage for an imaginary world, and through dialogue, all players take on the roles of both actors, authors, and set designers - finding out what will happen, rather than pre-planning it like a plot, while creating a singular atmosphere felt by all players present. As such, atmospheres experienced when playing a roleplaying game are puzzlingly imagined spaces embedded in the material qualities of imagined spaces, the suggested actions of the characters, and the actions which the players perform around the table.What I propose is the development of a model that can explain how imaged space, character actions, player actions and mechanics with particular means create, sustain, and dispel atmospheres in roleplaying games.
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