Householders' Accounts of the Bed Kept Made Up for Guests Who Do Not Come, and the Standing Room Each School Now Keeps
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 22 householders in the doorway of the spare room and finds the made-up bed described as a standing offer, renewed with the linen each week whether or not a guest has stayed (median 3 weeks since changing, in households with and without a recent guest). Seventeen households report that nobody has ever asked to use the room, and the Trajectory Analytics Group now has each School keep one Standing Room, made up weekly and released only to a visitor who has not asked for it.
| Authors | Lindiwe Achterberg , Anneke Tolan , Ingrid Vasseur |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Ruling the Columns of a Sailing Club's Incident Book Before the Season's First Capsize ( $263,718) Anticipatory Capability Fund: Pre-Drafting the Extension Notice for a Café's Reusable-Cup Deposit Trial ( $487,361) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.ohizh9 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 7 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_ohizh9,
author = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Anneke Tolan and Ingrid Vasseur},
title = {The Spare Room as Standing Offer: Householders' Accounts of the Bed Kept Made Up for Guests Who Do Not Come, and the Standing Room Each School Now Keeps},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.ohizh9},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-trajectory-analytics-ohizh9/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}