Speakers
Colleen Macklin, Professor, Parsons School of Design
Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the school of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design. They are the founder and co-director of PETLab, a design research lab. PETLab projects include disaster preparedness games with the Red Cross, the urban activist game Re:Activism and the fiscal sport Budgetball. She is a member of Local No. 12, known for the videogame Dear Reader (Apple Arcade). With John Sharp they have co-authored Games, Design and Play: A detailed look at iterative game design (Addison Wesley Professional, 2016) and Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure (MIT Press, 2019).