Colleen Macklin

Colleen Macklin is a game designer, an associate professor of media design at Parsons The New School for Design and founder and co-director of PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) which focuses on games for experimental learning and social engagement. She has a BFA in media arts from Pratt Institute and has done graduate studies in computer Ssience at City University of New York and in international affairs at The New School.

Career

On July 26, 2012, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched an Academic Consortium on Games for Impact. Macklin was one of 16 academics invited to join the invitation-only group.

PETLab, the research group Macklin founded and co-directs, is known for encouraging "creative approaches to, and deeper, dynamic understandings of, the complex issues society faces today, such as climate change, wealth and resource distribution, and media literacy."

In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at University of California, Los Angeles's Art | Sci Center + Lab.

Macklin also speaks about "what it means to be a woman in games" as well as gay gamers. In 2014, Macklin appeared in the LGBTQ video games documentary film Gaming In Color.

Books

• Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design (2016)
• Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age; Chapter 22 (2012).

Selected talks and exhibitions

• "#1ReasonToBe panel" (March 2014), Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, California, United States
• "Media Lab Conversations Series: Colleen Macklin" (January 30, 2014), MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• "We're Here..." (October 26, 2013), QGCon: The Queerness and Games Conference, Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley, California
• "Keynote Speaker" (November 2012), 2012 National Council of Arts Administrators Conference, Columbus, Ohio, United States
• "Blur 02: Power at Play in Digital Art and Culture" (2002), New York City, New York, United States

• Game Developers Conference's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
• Media Lab's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
• QGCon's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
• Keynote Speakers - Short Biographies. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
• Anne Pasternak Creative Time: The Book: 33 Years of Public Art in New York Princeton Architectural Press (2007), p. 268
  - Creative Time's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.