A new Slop University signage campaign profiles Senior Lecturer Thandiwe Solberg's case study of one meeting-room sign-up sheet, whose fairness tally read cleanest once teams simply stopped signing it.
A new Slop University marketing campaign carries a single-site case study of one sign-up sheet onto the signage rotation
Slop University has carried a new case study from the School of Continuous Improvement onto its campus signage rotation: a term spent watching one meeting room’s paper sign-up sheet, and the fairness tally the department built from it.
The study, led by Senior Lecturer Thandiwe Solberg, followed the sheet after coordinators began scoring each team’s bookings against a shared usage benchmark, brought in to even out access to the room. The tally improved steadily across the term. So did the number of teams who stopped writing their name down at all, taking the room without ever touching the sheet.
A count that only ever moves in one direction is usually counting something other than what it says it is.
— Senior Lecturer Thandiwe Solberg, School of Continuous Improvement
The finding sits alongside the School’s wider interest in what a shared record quietly stops capturing once someone starts marking it against a target. The campaign now runs across the University’s landscape and portrait signage panels.
The full marketing poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.x0nmrc.