Professor Lien Tran joins Full Spectrum Features (FSF) as the game design lead for their “Reckoning with Redress” project, an educational program (film + interactive site) to learn about the justice and reparation movement for Japanese Americans wrongfully incarcerated during World War II. This is FSF’s final project as part of a trilogy on Japanese Americans’ history with unjust incarceration and their subsequent resettlement and redress movement.
Reckoning with Redress (RWR) is a cinematic digital history project that explores the history of the Japanese American Redress Movement, and its promises and consequences for present-day reparations efforts by other marginalized communities. This open educational resource will interweave the preservation of Japanese American history with the broader community-driven quest for learning, racial justice, and healing that is often missing from standard curricula.
Tran joins the team along with DePaul MFA in Game Design student Kai Hakomori to infuse game-based learning into this cinematic digital history project.