QUESTION TIME

STATEMENT OF INTENT 1.4WE ARE STRANGERS

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Statement of Intent 1.4 from Question Time [QT], Copenhagen, Denmark. Question Timehold daily summits somewhere in Copenhagen. After each summit a new statement ofintent is issued.WE ARE STRANGERS

Summit Date:

10 December 2009

Attending:

David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Alex Eisenberg,

Neil Bennun, Christian SkovbjergJensen,

Location:

Bang and Jensen Cafe

Minute Taker:

Alex Eisenberg

We meet.

(In a café and we buy coffee and I get a coffee and a water).

We sit round this table.

And [0.1]

we talk.

We will ALWAYS make changes to the questions that we will ask people.

(L said to me that what shelikes about what we are doing is that it

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s about the PROCESS)

We will attempt to explore what it means to be a STRANGER in this place.

(Feeling comfortabletaking the metro [M] and the train [S] around the city, despite almost getting fined for accidentally notbuying a ticket. Feeling comfortable finding my way back to where we are staying – but still this feeling ofbeing stranger or do you just call it being a tourist?)

(who are strangers)

will place ourselves in RELATION to other strangers.

AND [0.2]

We will find out what happens when two strangers meet.

(FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/2;FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/3; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/4; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/5; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/6;FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/7; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/8; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/9; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/10;FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/11; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/12; FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/13)

We recognise that FEAR might be present.

IF [0.1]

We acknowledge that there is a PARTICULAR NORDIC SENSIBILITY.

(Sitting on the train (S) andrealise that we had accidentally not bought a ticket. Discuss the possibilities – there are quite a few.Notice the ticket inspectors coming down the carriage and decide to be honest. Tell the ticket inspectorthat you have been buying tickets for all your other journeys but that you had just run onto the train without