Colleen Macklin is Chair of the Department of Communication Design and Technology at Parsons the New School For Design in New York City. At Parsons, she has led collaborative research projects focused on open source and grassroots media with partners such as the UN and Open Society Institute. In 2006-2007 Colleen was a fellow at the India China Institute at the New School investigating the use of mobile phones and location-based media in participatory urban design. In addition to her work at Parsons, she was an interaction designer at several design firms for clients such as Citibank, France Telecom, Moët, and Thomson and a technology-based installation artist with exhibitions and events in New York and Asia. She has given lectures 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, CUNY and International Affairs, The New School.
Courses:
Design and Ethnography
Time-Based Media