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What Does the Tally Actually Curate?

How a simple count comes to run the room.

A research-showcase brochure follows a suburban quilting guild's block-count tally, kept to balance contribution to its flagship show quilt, as it quietly becomes the guild's leadership ladder, and sets the single-site case alongside the University's wider programme of reading what an ordinary community tally is asked to decide.

Authors Fenna Okoro , Casimir Beng , Ingeborg Nwachukwu
School School of Emergent Priorities
Output type Brochure
Published
DOI 10.5555/slop.klk5tb
Pages 8
Version 1.0
Licence CC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_klk5tb,
  author       = {Fenna Okoro and Casimir Beng and Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
  title        = {What Does the Tally Actually Curate?: How a simple count comes to run the room.},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.klk5tb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-the-quilting-guild-s-klk5tb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}