A new Slop University brochure, The Board Doesn't Forget, makes the case for supporting the everyday records the University already tracks, from an office kitchen's hand-drawn cleaning roster to the published studies its schools have built around records like it.
A new brochure, The Board Doesn't Forget, argues that the small records the University already keeps are worth backing, not just watching
Slop University has never needed an emergency to take a record seriously. Its newest brochure, The Board Doesn’t Forget, released today from the Schools of Continuous Improvement and Emergent Priorities, makes its case for support around the least dramatic record either School studies: the hand-drawn cleaning roster on an office kitchen wall, and everything that starts happening to it once someone begins checking it every week. It is, the University says, exactly the kind of record its case for support was built to speak for.
A whiteboard doesn’t ask to be an instrument. Somebody decides that for it, usually about a week after the first missed tick.
— Dr Marit Osayande, Lecturer and Convenor of the Living Dashboard, School of Continuous Improvement
The brochure’s featured-research section draws on four of the Schools’ published studies that follow small records down the same path, including a same-day digital-logging incentive trialled across dozens of aged-care facilities and a maturity model tracking how quickly a repainted car-space stencil catches up to its own paperwork. “A lot of what my committee work formalises has already happened somewhere smaller first,” said Dr Ingrid Vasseur, Lecturer and Convenor of Futures in Committee, School of Emergent Priorities. “This brochure is just where we finally wrote that down.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.9ghkef.