Decentering the Designer Through Live-Action Roleplay

More-than-human approaches to HCI design research have gained traction in recent years, facilitating a need to employ new methods that decenter the human perspective. We propose live-action roleplay (larp), as a method and practice within HCI that can support perspective taking and empathy-building with non-humans actors. In this paper, we discuss a local community workshop where we facilitated numerous body-based and larp activities surrounding the theme of sustainability, and reflect on the strengths larp offers in service of decentering the human perspective.