A new brochure from the Schools of Continuous Improvement and Emergent Priorities invites prospective students into the University's program to draft, review, and ratify the road's unwritten courtesies.
A new prospectus invites students to help codify the informal courtesies of suburban driving, from the wave-through to the grace interval before the horn
The courtesy wave has no author, no custodian and, until this week, no prospectus. A new brochure from Slop University invites prospective students into the University’s program to codify the informal courtesies of suburban driving — the wave-through at the narrow street, the thank-you hazard flash, the grace interval a green light is allowed before the first horn.
The program spans two schools. Within the School of Continuous Improvement, candidates in the Master of Applied Measurement carry observed conventions from kerbside field notes through drafting, panel review and formal issue, anchoring the University’s stewardship discipline to the street where the convention lives. The School of Emergent Priorities reads the same conventions as priorities on approach, harmonising season-long observation of a single intersection with its anticipatory-capability agenda.
Nobody remembers being taught to wave, which is how we know the teaching worked. The program is an invitation to sit with that teaching long enough to write it down.
— Dr Thandiwe Solberg, Senior Lecturer and Convenor, Demo Quarter
Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Lecturer and Convenor of Capability Sprints, said the program “rewards the kind of noticing most people are already doing from the driver’s seat”.
The brochure reflects a conviction the University returns to often: that the everyday is owed the full weight of institutional attention. Expressions of interest are open across the year.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.brzi1c.