Colleen Macklin, Chair, Communication Design and Technology, Parsons the New School for Design
Parsons the New School for Design/The New School
http://www.parsons.edu

Three Expertise Keywords:
games, interaction-design, Open-source-design
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
Learning to communicate, interact and imagine new possibilities is at the center of engaging with the world as a designer, and in some way or another, we are all designers!
Recent Posts:
- Colleen Macklin: PETLab, Prototyping Play (January 17, 2008)
Description of Current Work:
My current work focuses on designing open source interactive and game-based systems in the social interest which encourage curiosity, interaction and learning.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Chairing the Communication Design and Technology Department at Parsons is my primary project! http://cdt.parsons.edu
I’ve also been working on Mobile Geographies (with Urban Anthropologist Vyjayanthi Rao), a site-specific social histories accessed via basic mobile phones on location http://a.parsons.edu/~mobile_geographies/
an article about this project for the Journal of Design and Management can be found here: http://parsons.edu/applications/DMJv2.pdf

