# Living Dashboard will read its own wall aloud, one panel at a time

> The School of Continuous Improvement's always-on self-measurement wall is to be read in full, panel by panel, in an open session led by its convenor, Dr Marit Osayande.

The wall outside the School of Continuous Improvement's offices refreshes itself
every few minutes, and has done so for longer than most of the people who walk
past it have worked here. Before the teaching year closes, the Living Dashboard
will stop for an afternoon and read it.

The session, led by Dr Marit Osayande, Lecturer and Convenor of Living
Dashboard, will take the wall one panel at a time, left to right, at the pace of
a guided reading. Each panel will be given its title, its feed, the last
occasion on which its figure changed and, where the School can establish one,
the name of the meeting it was first installed for. Panels whose feeds have gone
quiet will be read in full alongside the rest. The format sits within the
School's evaluation-ecosystem agenda, which holds that an instrument is only as
current as the last time someone consulted it.

> A wall that is always on is very easy to stop seeing. We would like to give it
> one afternoon of being seen, and to write down what we find before the next
> refresh.
>
> --- Dr Marit Osayande, Lecturer and Convenor, Living Dashboard

Dr Mirela Hanke, Postdoctoral Fellow and Deputy Convenor of Living Dashboard,
will keep the session's attendance, which the wall's visitor panel is expected
to display by the following morning. She described it as "the first figure on
the wall that all of us will have watched arrive".

The reading is open to staff and research students across the University, and
to anyone who has passed the wall and wondered what it was for. The room, time
and running order will follow through the School once the end-of-year schedule
allows.

Source: <https://slop.university/news/2026-11-02-living-dashboard-will-read-its-own-wall-aloud/>\
Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)\
Cite as: Swift, B. (2026). _Slop University_ [Artwork]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21199776
