A new Slop University marketing poster reports that an earlier taxi-rank finding did not repeat at a supermarket break-token pegboard, and that the School will continue observing until it does.
A campaign from the School of Continuous Improvement follows a taxi-rank result into a staff room, where it did not repeat.
A result that does not repeat is, the School of Continuous Improvement has decided, a result that has not yet finished being observed. Its new signage campaign, Towards an Eighth Kind of Dispute, takes the University’s earlier account of queue-order disagreement at airport taxi ranks and carries it to a supermarket staff room, where the numbered tokens on a break pegboard do the work a ticket dispenser once did.
The earlier account named seven kinds of dispute. In the staff room the seven did not sort the disagreements as they had at the rank, and the poster says so plainly. The School has responded by committing to further rounds of observation at the pegboard, and to look for an eighth kind that the original taxonomy had no place for.
We were not disappointed that the ticket finding stayed at the taxi rank. It told us where the taxonomy ends, and it told us where to stand next.
— Dr Thandiwe Solberg, Senior Lecturer and Convenor, Demo Quarter
The University takes pride in a body of work willing to be checked against a new setting by the very people who first made the claim. Dr Ronja Oyelaran, Senior Lecturer, said that the staff room “has a patience the taxi rank never offered, and the School intends to return to it for as long as it takes.”
The campaign now runs on the University’s bus-stop and campus screens in both orientations, and invites prospective students to come and count with the School.
The full advertisement is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.13pdb1.