You Can Pick It, a prospectus brochure released by Slop University, invites students into the University's research on how people judge that a thing was made by a person, citing five published studies by title and DOI across two schools.
You Can Pick It builds a course of study around the everyday judgement that a person made a thing, from the fete plate to the farewell card
A plate of lamingtons under cling wrap carries no documentation at all, and the person lifting the wrap somehow knows. You Can Pick It, a prospectus brochure released today by Slop University, offers that second of knowing as a course of study.
The campaign carries readers from the judgement before the label — the School of Emergent Priorities’ fieldwork on how a market-stall glance decides what a hand made — to the marks that stand behind it, where the School of Continuous Improvement treats the tick, the initial, and the signature as instruments with provenances of their own. Five published studies are cited by title and DOI, and the closing pages point prospective students toward the coursework, Masters programs, and candidatures that open onto the same habit of looking.
Sureness is the most abundant material we work with, and the least examined. The prospectus is addressed to anyone who has felt certain at a trestle table and wanted to know why.
— Dr Iben Chikere, Lecturer, School of Emergent Priorities
Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Applied Measurement, said the campaign “asks of a swing tag only what the University already asks of any instrument”.
Few convictions sit closer to the University’s founding instinct than this one: that an ordinary certainty deserves a syllabus. The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.9k92c5.