Competition: win tickets to the Turncoats' Lost in Space debate
Competition: alternative architecture event Turncoats has returned for a final season, and Dezeen is giving away five pairs of tickets for its debate on space in the next 24 hours.
Following a sold-out first debate last month on nuclear housing, Lost in Space will be held at St John's Hoxton on 7 February.
Enter below in the next 34 hours to win tickets
Each night takes a provocative question and invites its panellists to argue for or against it with both barrels ? before switching sides.
Theatrical opening acts set the tone for an unconventional night, which host Phineas Harper. said is like "stabbing a syringe of adrenaline into the fleshy tissue of architectural discourse and pressing down hard".
Everything is off the record and the audience's phones are sealed in bags before it starts. "Turncoats is an experiment, a test, a shot in the dark, a hunch that most panel debates are too dry, too polite and ultimately too dull to cut through the noise in this critical time," said Harper, who is also a Turncoats co-founder and Dezeen columnist.
"We've all sat in painfully dreary lecture theatres watching panels of similar people with similar ideas gently buffing each other's egos while jamming biros into our legs just to stay awake," he added.
"Turncoats is for anyone who craves public debate with some kick, humour and the occasional dram of vodka ? to grapple with really serious ideas, sometimes you need to lighten up."
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