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to survey existing works, explore future trends, gather audience and peer
responses and engage the broader community of interest around the field of
enquiry.
This symposium brought together artists, designers, architects, craft makers,
academics, students and others to talk about the ‘Perimeters, Boundaries and
Borders’ exhibition and discuss how computer-based design and fabrication
tools have impacted on creative practice and production methods. The event
was held at St. Martin's College in Lancaster on Thursday 28 th September, 2006
from 1 – 5pm. This was the same day the exhibition opened and those present
were encouraged to go to the opening.
Everyone that attended had been given a pack of information about the schedule
of the event, information on the speakers, an exhibition guide, invitations to the
opening of the exhibition and an evaluation survey. In addition folly also
conducted an equal opportunities monitoring survey that gathered demographic
data from attendees. Thirty people attended the symposium. Thirteen people
completed the survey. This represents 43% of the total attendance. The
attendees were asked how they had first become aware of Fast-uk or folly. They
were also asked to indicate the sector they work in. The next two questions were
presented as a Likert scale to measure the extent to which the visitor agreed or
disagreed with a series of statements. The scale was 1) strongly agree, 2) agree,
3) neither agree or disagree, 4) disagree, 5) strongly disagree and the statements
were:
• Today’s symposium addressed the issues stated in the promotional
materials
• Today’s symposium provided valuable insight into the topic
The next three questions were presented as a Likert scale to measure or to rate
aspects of the event. The scale was 1) excellent, 2) good, 3) fair, 4) poor, 5) very
poor and the aspects were:
• How would you rate the quality of invited keynote speakers/lecturers?
• How would you rate the organisation and management?
• How would you rate the venue?
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