Colleen Macklin

Colleen Macklin
Colleen Macklin, 2014
Occupation	Video game designer Professor
Known for	PETLab

Colleen Macklin is a game designer,^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Career

On July 26, 2012, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched an Academic Consortium on Games for Impact.^[4] Macklin was one of 16 academics invited to join the invitation-only group.^[5]

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."^[6][7][8]

In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at University of California, Los Angeles's Art | Sci Center + Lab.^[9]

Macklin also speaks about "what it means to be a woman in games" as well as gay gamers.^[10][11] In 2014, Macklin appeared in the LGBTQ video games documentary film Gaming In Color.^[12]

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^[13]
• "Media Lab Conversations Series: Colleen Macklin" (January 30, 2014), MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States^[14]
• "We're Here..." (October 26, 2013), QGCon: The Queerness and Games Conference, Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley, California^[15]
• "Keynote Speaker" (November 2012), 2012 National Council of Arts Administrators Conference, Columbus, Ohio, United States^[16]
• "Blur 02: Power at Play in Digital Art and Culture" (2002), New York City, New York, United States^[17]

References

1. "The Metagame". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
2. PETLab's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
   - Parsons The New School for Design's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
3. NCAA 2012 Conference website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
4. André Czauderna, "From Serious Games to Games for Impact", G4CE magazine
5. White House Taps Parsons Faculty for Games Consortium. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
6. Colleen Macklin: PETLab, Prototyping Play Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
7. "Learning". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
8. "Learning through games". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
9. Art | Sci Center + Lab's Website. URL accessed on 4 February 2014.
10. GDC Staff Popular #1ReasonToBe panel returns to GDC 2014 Gamasutra. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
11. "Arstechnica". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
12. "Financial post". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
13. Game Developers Conference's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
14. Media Lab's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
15. QGCon's website. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
16. Keynote Speakers - Short Biographies. URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
17. 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.