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Interview with Claire Welsh - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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BS another word that is often used is fun. Could you say a little bit about the importance of fun

CW Well I think, yeah, I think the way that things are designed, it's to try and get dramatic sort of, effects from things. So, I mean like the hot air balloon isn't, you know, isn't sort of 30cm across you know but it's big and it's exciting. And, you know, again, part of it is just size, I think, that just makes things more exciting for a, for a start. And, trying to get immediate, immediate results. I know that's something, you know, the exhibit designers you know, if, if it won't work in 30 seconds then forget it because people will walk off and do something else, you know, so. And that - all helps the fun element of it, I think. And also there's sort of social aspects of things as well, you know, it's - I mean there are some exhibits that are specifically designed to have more than one person. So like "circulating circuits" it won't work unless you've got 4 hands on the thing. But then others, you know are, they're, they're kind of shaped so it's easy for a few people to get round them and, so that as people talk about their experiences or see things together they're, you know as they participate in things together that makes it more exciting, more fun as well.