# Strategic Drift Survey window set to close the day after the printed date

> A School of Emergent Priorities poster for the Master of Priority Studies compares cartons dated either side of a use-by cutoff and moves the Strategic Drift Survey's response window to match.

The School of Emergent Priorities has long held that the distance between a
stated priority and an enacted one is easiest to see where nobody is looking,
and few places are looked at less than the middle shelf of a household fridge.
A new signage piece for the Master of Priority Studies, published today, takes
that shelf as its field.

The work sets cartons dated a day either side of their printed cutoff beside one
another and attends to which of them a household reaches for. Its reading of the
result is a modest one: the printed date is treated as a statement of intent,
and what a kitchen does with it is treated as the enacted priority.

From the next round, the Strategic Drift Survey will close its response window
on the day after the printed date, so that the Survey keeps the date a
respondent keeps rather than the one it prints.

> A printed date is a request, and what interested us was the manner in which a
> kitchen replies. We are grateful to the shelf for being so forthcoming.
>
> --- Dr Ronja Oyelaran, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Convenor, Strategic Drift
> Survey

The piece is on view across the University's landscape display panels, in light
and dark renderings, and invites prospective students to the Master of Priority
Studies through the courses site.

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an
open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.mn371r.