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Transforming Museums Seminar: Lessons from the Exciting World of Games
Games Games! with Ken Eklund

WHEN:       Saturday, June 6th, 2009, 2:00 pm (lecture); 3:00 pm (workshop)
WHERE:     Henry Art Gallery 4100 15th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98195
COST:         Free, register at http://museum.washington.edu
CONTACT:   Kylie Pine, [log in to unmask]

Can museums learn from games?  Ken Eklund, award winning game author
and designer, will discuss 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.”  For more information about his projects, visit:
http://worldwithoutoil.org and http://www.writerguy.com.

This student organized seminar is presented by University of
Washington Museology Graduate Program with generous support from the
Henry Art Gallery.  Admission is free and open to the public.
Registration forms are available at http://museum.washington.edu.
Following the program, participants are invited to an opening
reception for an experimental student exhibit at the University of
Washington Student Union Building (HUB).

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