Colleen Macklin

Colleen Macklin is a game designer, professor at Parsons School of Design and founder founder of PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab), a lab that develops games for experimental learning and social engagement. PETLab has developed dozens of games, including Budgetball, a physical and fiscal sport about the federal debt, Re:Activism, a game of protest, and a series of disaster preparedness games with the Red Cross. She is also a member of the game design collective Local No. 12, best known for their social card game, The Metagame and their word puzzle game love letter to literature, Losswords (to be released in 2019). She was a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, where she collaborated on a series of games with students and faulty, including Microcultures, a social card game about the human microbiome. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.