Dr Alan Hook

Alan Hook is Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at Ulster University in the School of Communication and Media. He is a maker of experiences and oddities for Human and Non-Human Animals. Alan has worked with playful interactive and immersive experiences for public audiences, designed to challenge their thinking, for 20 years.

He has worked He has exhibited virtual environments research in The Tech Museum, Americas largest Science and Technology Museum and continues to work with virtual environments and immersive game experiences as a way to build understanding of complex social, cultural and political issues. Alan’s current research investigates critical making as a way to explore and frame ‘wicked problems’ such as Climate Change or Civic and Societal Responsibility.