Colleen Macklin is a female game designer, an associate professor of media design at

Parsons The New School for Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

and founder and co-director of PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) which focuses on games for experimental learning and social engagement.

Education

She has a BFA in Media Arts from

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has an additional campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The institute was founded in 18 ...

and has done graduate studies in computer science at

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and in international affairs at

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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." The project also aims to get games to teach the player by allowing them to reflect on not only what the game is about but also how it's structured. She was part of game design group Local No. 12 who made games like ''Dear Reader,'' an online word puzzle game, and ''The Metagame,'' a board/card game . In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at

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's Art , Sci Center + Lab. Macklin also speaks about "what it means to be a woman in games" as well as speaking on the topic of gay gamers. In 2014, Macklin appeared in the LGBTQ video games documentary film '' Gaming In Color''.

Books

* Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure (2019) *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)

Movies

* '' Gaming in Color'' (May 19, 2015) * ''Gameloading: Rise of the Indies'' (April 21, 2015)

Selected talks and exhibitions

* *"#1ReasonToBe panel" (March 2014),

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, United States * "Media Lab Conversations Series: Colleen Macklin" (January 30, 2014),

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, United States * "We're Here..." (October 26, 2013), QGCon: The Queerness and Games Conference, Berkeley Center for New Media,

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* "Keynote Speaker" (November 2012), 2012 National Council of Arts Administrators Conference,

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* "Blur 02: Power at Play in Digital Art and Culture" (2002),

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, United StatesAnne 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.

References

External links

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