Questions about place
Friday, October 24th, 2008What’s hiding in this place?
Is my place better than your place?
If I drew a map to this place would you be able to find it?
Is there an invisible dimension here?
Where do we go to if there’s a fire?
Will there be discounts on tea if you spend a few hours there?
Does this place change radically in different weathers/times of day/seasons?
Does this place impose a certain mood on you?
How does this place connect to other places like it?
When is this place at its best? What season? What time? What elemental condition? And conversely?
What book would you like to read lying in a hammock in your place?
Who’s never been welcome in your place?
Where’s the fridge?
What refreshments can be provided?
Can you sleep safely knowing it exists in the world?
Who would wear a hat in this place?
Where can I go for quiet time/meditate?
Have the people shaped this place or has the place shaped the people?
Does this place have any hope for the future?
Where do I sleep?
How do I get in?
What happens if it’s the wrong place?
Does it have a wi fi connection?
What’s on the local radio?
Do you have public phone access?
Where’s the heating?
Who would never feel safe here?
What’s underneath this place?
How many people can we fit here?
Is this place on the rise, or the demise?
Who lives here?
Why is this place called what it is?
Have any major incidents happened here?
What was this place like ten years ago?
What is it like in when it’s dark?
What is the floor made of?
Any Olympians?
Did the Slave Trade ever visit?
Has your mother ever been there? Why?
How many lone children have you seen?
Are there any freaky insects?
What’s the most interesting house you’ve peered into?
Are the streetlights in working order?
Will it flood?
Do you sound local?
Have you dreamt about your place?
How does this place make you feel?
What does this place feel like?
How would you destroy this place?
Who made it?
What happens if you multiply the effects of this place across the world?
Has this place been loved/abused/both?
What’s here that we can’t see (behind doors/under the ground?)
Has this place been shaped by concepts that we no longer understand/care about?
Does my place have wings?
Do you want to come on over to my place?
Could I fall in love here?
Could I stand naked here?
Could I kill someone here?
Who’s walked there before you?
What’s buried beneath you?
What would Simon Cowell say if this place auditioned for X Factor?
What would Barak Obama say standing in this place?
Is it smelly?
What’s underground?
Do any international activities take place in my place?
How do the postcodes break down my city?
What is the birthrate and the mortality rate of my place?
What is the general cultural make up of my place?
What film would you shoot on this location?
Does my place have boundaries?
Where is your place?
What if it were decimated tomorrow?
Would anyone find you if you were murdered and dumped there?
What is the journey like to that place?
Has anything historical happened there?
Could I eat my dinner in this place?
Whose blood, sweat and tears made this place?
Is this place for me?
Who is the place for?
Who was this place for?
Who will this place be for?
Who owns this place?
Can I buy this place? How much?
Any films located in this place?
Would Neanderthal man have survived there? i.e. water – firewood, shelter etc?
What do you feel you should drink in your place?
What do the cloud shapes above remind you of?
Who is allowed in to my place?
If my place was a fruit what would it be?
How do the locals feel about My Place?
How do outsiders feel about my place?
If you could sum this place up in one word, what would it be?
Is this place haunted?
If you were going to propose to someone, would you do it in that place?
How many methods of transport could be used in that place?
Are there weird references to your place in dusty history books?
How would you improve your area?
Would you live there?
What would you write in a tourist guide?
A bit of personification: if your place was single and unloved, what other area would it like to go out with?
Have you gone digging?
Is your area safe for going around on a skateboard, on your back?
What was this place like before humans came along?
What can you hear here?
What is the difference from when you were last here?
What would your mum say about my place?
How big is my place?
Who is my place twinned with?
How many football teams in my place?
Does this place look the same to everyone?
Is this a good place?
Where do my target audience dwell?
What is the history of my place?
Where are the ladies toilets?
Who’s missing from this place
What is the name of the place?
Is it twinned with anywhere?
Where is the kettle?
Can people visit me here?
When will I leave?
What happens if I set off the fire alarm?
How will I know my time there is finished?
Who will I talk to?
When did this place start?
What did this place start?
What if the whole world was made up with this place?
Which insects live here?
What are the colours of the place?
How does it sound?
What does it taste like?
Tell me what you smell in this place?
What is this place now?
Will this place be here in the future?
What board game would this place be?
Who runs this place?
Who controls it?
Who has power in this place?
Does a gorilla/monkey/lion look good in this place?
Where’s the exit?
Where’s the mirror?
Can you escape from here?
Would you be imprisoned here?
What would Rapunzel have to say about this place (or other imagined characters)
Does it cost to get in?
What does it sound like?
What is the landscape?
Who/what lives here?
What times can you go there?
How long does it take to get there?
How big is it – what are the boundaries?
Is there an age restriction?
Is there a dress code?
What behaviour is expected there?
What has happened there before?
Is there another place like it?
How tall is it?
Can we be loud here?
Who else will use this place?
Can we bring people with us?
Can we dance there?
Is there a kitchen?
Is there space outside?
What is the height restriction?
What accent/language/lingo do people speak there?
Does the space move?
How do you get out of it?
What can you do there for fun?
Which Muppet would it be?
How drunk is it?
Does it know who it is?
Has it ever killed a man?
What is its texture?
What does its smell remind you of?
What sex is it?
If it were a myspace emoticon which would it be?
Who do you wish fo physically extrapolate from it?
What sense of music represents it best?
Which newspaper would it read?
What bodyshape does it have?
Where do you want to visit the most? Why?
Where is your favourite place to celebrate?
What do your friends think about your place?
Where would you most recommend to someone?
Where is your inspiration place?
Where do you feel you belong? Are you there?
Where is your favourite place to go?
Where do you hate going?
What place makes you feel like you’re at home?
Where do they have the best food?
Where is your happy place?
Where do you feel lonely?
What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
John, Paul, George or Ringo?
What connects your place to mind?
Are you safe in your place?
When is your place open for business?
Five things that rhyme with your place?
Where is your shadow falling?
How warm is it?
When did you get there? When will you leave?
What type of sail are you standing on?
To how many decimal places can you work out pi?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
What’s the history/heritage?
Does this place make your soul sing/sink?
Is this place physical? Literal? Virtual?
How do you feel in this space or place?
What impact do you have on where you are?
Has this place changed significantly over a period of time. If so, how?
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