Ann McDonald is an assistant professor in design and multimedia studies at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research investigates collective participation at the intersection of digital and physical environments and the tension between public and private uses of the screen/image in the urban realm. Ongoing creative projects include educational games and interactive projects with social relevance that can best be achieved through interdisciplinary collaboration. Exhibit and interactive design work for The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The New England Aquarium, The National Health Sciences Consortium and the American Society of Plant Biology have offered wide audiences access to complex topics. Her interactive experiments explore the relationship between narrative and an information space.
