Colleen Macklin

Biography

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Digital Artist, Interaction Designer and Chair, Communication Design and Technology, Parsons. Interaction designer for clients such as Citibank, France Telecom, Moët, and Thomson. Led collaborative research projects with the UN and Open Society Institute including UNESCO’s Africa Animated project, and LiveSupport, (open source application for grassroots radio sponsored by the Open Society Institute and the Center for Advanced Media, Prague). She is also the director of PETLab (Prototyping Evaluation, Teaching and Learning lab), a joint project of Games for Change and Parsons. She is Co-PI on the New Youth City Learning project. Current research includes fields of interaction design and urban planning, particularly in the realm of locative media and participatory design. Has given talks at Tsinghua University in Beijing, ICESI University in Cali, Columbia, The Design Institute in Minneapolis and the Cooper Hewitt, NYC. BFA, Media Arts Pratt Institute, graduate studies in Computer Science, City University New York and International Affairs, The New School.

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