Fig 1.
Sensorium, a multi-room installation in a disused officers’ quarters and on the surrounding lawn exploring the human body.
The event took place one summer weekend in 2018 as part of the FIGMENT Festival.
Fig 2.
Flavor Feast, a pop-up food stand featured as part of Sensorium.
Participants took part in a series of edible experiments that show how smell, touch, sight and hearing can influence taste.
Fig 3.
A page from the Sensorium program describes the novel installations and activities created by artists and scientists working together.
The installations and activities were designed to appeal to attendees’ artistic identities, while supporting STEM learning.
Fig 4.
An artist’s model at Anatomical Life Drawing.
Here the anatomically accurate veins and arteries are being painted directly onto the model’s skin for the benefit of audience members (Fig 5).
Fig 5.
Audience members drawing at Anatomical Life Drawing, an art class with a difference in which audience members engage in a basic model sketching exercise and are introduced to elements of human blood circulation.
The event took place on the Sensorium stage, on the lawn next to the officers’ quarters.
Table 1.
Overview of instruments and population from which they sampled.
Table 2.
Reasons for attending Sensorium.
Table 3.
Expectations for visiting Sensorium.
Fig 6.
Sample composition for five mutually exclusive audience segments by relationship to science from FIGMENT festival.
Fig 7.
Sample composition for five mutually exclusive audience segments by relationship to science from Oregon Eclipse festival, shown here for comparison with Fig 6.
Bisbee O’Connell et al., [19].
Table 4.
Age distribution of Sensorium and FIGMENT comparison samples.
Table 5.
Prior engagement with art and science; only Sensorium participants (n = 232).
Table 6.
Choice of descriptors for Sensorium events (check all that apply).
Table 7.
Take-aways from the experience at Sensorium (check all that apply).
Table 8.
Take-aways from the experience at the Guerilla Science Sensorium (check all that apply).
Numbers represent rounded percentages (exit interviews, n = 326).
Table 9.
Frequency of use of arts and science institutions and resources, 2019 provided by Jon Miller (personal correspondence).