Perpetuity, Terminable

A Lease-and-Reassignment Registry for a Shire's Memorial Bench Plaques

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities describes a registry that records each memorial-bench plaque in one shire as a ten-year lease, unscrews the plate on its expiry date and offers the position to the next applicant, and finds that across ten quarters and 131 expiries the waiting list fell from 337 to 214 while three of its letter, parcel and notice steps left the complaint rate unchanged. The University now fixes every commemorative plate in its grounds at ten years, with no extension.

@misc{slop_hyfo1n,
  author       = {Ingrid Vasseur and Kwame Lindqvist and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Perpetuity, Terminable: A Lease-and-Reassignment Registry for a Shire's Memorial Bench Plaques},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.hyfo1n},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-although-a-memorial-hyfo1n/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}