A new Slop University brochure showcases the Horizon Register's five-kind trophy-provenance taxonomy, now a binding lodgement condition for a club's continued facilities-partnership standing.
The Horizon Register extends its five-kind taxonomy from anticipated risks to every affiliated club's trophy cabinet, with continued facilities standing now tied to full lodgement.
A trophy cabinet’s back shelf tends to hold pieces no one currently in the clubroom can explain: a shield with a worn plate, a cup nobody remembers presenting, a shirt in a frame whose season has slipped from anyone’s memory. The Horizon Register, the School of Emergent Priorities’ rolling account of priorities on approach, has decided that gap is worth closing, and the University counts it among the unfinished business now on its own ledger.
A new campaign brochure from the School sets out how the Register sorts every catalogued item into one of five kinds — outright win, perpetual challenge trophy, loaned display piece, disputed provenance, or retired — and what a club’s continued standing in the University’s facilities partnership now requires of its cabinet. An item classified disputed provenance comes off the shelf until the Register can settle it.
“A cabinet that can’t say what it holds isn’t neutral, it’s just unaudited,” said Dr Fenna Okoro, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the Horizon Register. “Every kind we assign is a kind someone can finally stop arguing about.”
Dr Ingrid Vasseur, whose earlier work with the Register examined a golf club’s own provenance panel, welcomed the extension: “The instrument travels well once you’ve built it properly. A trophy is not so different from a golf ball, provenance-wise.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.atxa85.