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debatehead
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Debatehead
is a series of debates involving the public in a contemporary and more
casual art-bar/club atmosphere. By providing an alternative forum for
something that is too often seen as stymied and formal, we want to promote
an event where the public would be encouraged and inspired to share their
experiences, ideas, research and expertise in a casual environment. While incorporating a dj and images from a variety of contemporary news sources, Debatehead provides a forum for an open, honest, critical debate of an issue, outside of the atmosphere of competition and one-upmanship that characterizes academic debating and political stumping. Debatehead will reveal a middle ground between passive reception of information and dogmatic rationalization of one’s own opinion by performing that middle ground in front of an audience. By promoting debates with this kind of contemporary vibe, we will be encouraging a forum and dialogue with the public that we feel is currently lacking in the media, and what should be an informed democracy. |