Ken Eklund Lecture: Can museums learn from games?
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Ken Eklund, award winning game author and designer, explores what new collaborative and immersive online games can teach museums about fostering peer learning, imaginative play and transformed perception of self and others. The free program takes place Saturday afternoon, June 6th at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. At 2:00 pm, Eklund will lecture about alternate reality games and the lessons they hold for museums that seek to become more relevant and participatory in a socially networked world, and follow his lecture with a workshop at 3:00 pm exploring how a game designer might approach exhibit design challenges of engagement and interaction.
Ken Eklund is the designer of the groundbreaking alternate reality game WORLD WITHOUT OIL. This timely serious game challenged players to creatively and collaboratively solve a simulated global oil crisis. In a recent interview with Culture Hacker at the Workbook Project, Ken describes what he does as “creating life-changing and world-saving games.”