QUESTION TIME

STATEMENT OF INTENT 2.1ONE OF US/SOME OF US

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Statement of Intent 2.1 from Question Time [QT], Copenhagen, Denmark. Question Timehold daily summits somewhere in Copenhagen. After each summit a new statement ofintent is issued.ONE OF US/SOME OF US

Summit Date:

13 December 2009

Attending:

David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Alex Eisenberg, Neil Bennun, Mary Paterson

Location:

a bland café decorated c. 2002

Minute Taker:

Mary Paterson

One of us lost all of his cards – the template for the score, and the prop for interaction. He left themsomewhere. He realised he was losing something, but then he remembered that the score can berevisioned every day.One of us realised that it is not a good idea to interview people in groups. It means they have an audience,which means they try to modify what they say to fit in with what their friends might want to hear.Two of us have come to the conclusion that the score does not work well with young people.

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Youngpeople

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is a relative term.Three of us said they like it when someone gets the game, or is open to the game, or is not open to thegame but is somehow exposed through the process of questions. At least one of us said that she findsshe does not enjoy asking questions all of the time. She wonders if this matters. She is open to theprocess changing her and her prejudices. Normally, this person is picky about the people with whom sheinteracts.One of us had a boring day.One of us said that Denmark is a good place to have babies.One of us met some delegates – some real delegates – who have been at the Bella Centre. You could tellthey were real delegates because this person had to be formally introduced. One woman who wasinterviewed found the process hard because she was in a targeted, negotiating space. She was throwingthe questions back for reassurance.Five of us said it

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s about going to events.One of use said that it is difficult to perform the score in environments that are not already discursive.Klima Forum is an ideal environment, but it is bustling with rhetoric and agitprop.