Conference Survey

The DEFSA Exco are busy planning the 2025 conference. We would like to get your feedback and input to help us create a meaningful and seamless conference experience for 2025. Whether you have attended any of the conferences before or not, we would like to get your input where you are able to give it.

Kindly answer the following questions and submit your response. Please note that your name will not be connected to your responses at all. This information will only be used to help plan future DEFSA conferences and will not be published in any form. We welcome honest, constructive responses.

Completing and submitting this survey is entirely voluntary and will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

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Institution

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2025 Conference

What critical but neglected topics should be addressed in 2025?

What pertinent themes are currently ‘not talked about’ that you think should be addressed in the 2025 conference?

What 2023 conference themes & topics should be explored further?

What aspects of the 2023 conference themes do you feel should be explored further? Previous conference themes can be viewed on the DEFSA website here

What past conference themes & topics should be explored further?

Are there any of the previous conference themes (not limited to 2023) that you feel should be revisited in light of new technological, cultural, social, aesthetic, educational or other developments in our field? Please elaborate.

What Conference format would you prefer?

online only

in-person only

hybrid

2025 Workshop Topics

What topics would you like to see addressed in the pre/post-conference workshops?

What Workshop format would you prefer?

online workshops

in-person workshops

Influencing Factors

Please rate how much the following factors would influence your intention/ability to attend the 2025 conference.

	Critical	Important	Minor	Irrelevant
Conference program and workshop	Conference program and workshop - Critical	Conference program and workshop - Important	Conference program and workshop - Minor	Conference program and workshop - Irrelevant
Page fee for publications	Page fee for publications - Critical	Page fee for publications - Important	Page fee for publications - Minor	Page fee for publications - Irrelevant
Location (local sightseeing & experiences)	Location (local sightseeing & experiences) - Critical	Location (local sightseeing & experiences) - Important	Location (local sightseeing & experiences) - Minor	Location (local sightseeing & experiences) - Irrelevant
Interesting themes	Interesting themes - Critical	Interesting themes - Important	Interesting themes - Minor	Interesting themes - Irrelevant
Location (distance from you/online)	Location (distance from you/online) - Critical	Location (distance from you/online) - Important	Location (distance from you/online) - Minor	Location (distance from you/online) - Irrelevant
You are presenting a paper	You are presenting a paper - Critical	You are presenting a paper - Important	You are presenting a paper - Minor	You are presenting a paper - Irrelevant
Conference attendance fee	Conference attendance fee - Critical	Conference attendance fee - Important	Conference attendance fee - Minor	Conference attendance fee - Irrelevant

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DEFSA conferences

DEFSA promotes relevant research with the focus on design + education through its biennial conferences, to promote professionalism, accountability and ethics in the education of young designers. Our next conference is a hybrid event. See above for details.

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