Lien Tran was selected and participated in the 2023 Games for Change’s Game Plan program with a focus on integrating game design into museum education programs through specialized professional development sessions. Tran and DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) explored the use of games for DePaul Art Museum’s Learning Studio, a Chicago-centric museum education platform that uniquely blends civic care with object-based learning techniques.
Additionally, in Winter and Spring 2023, Tran taught UXD 394/395 Capstone, for which DPAM was the client partner. User experience design (UXD) students collaborated on 6 projects, including 2 game-related projects, to bring interactivity and play into DPAM and to further engage the local as well as across Chicagoland community with its extensive collection featuring diverse artists – both within and beyond the physical walls of the museum.