Initialled, Not Read

What does a whiteboard marked DO NOT ERASE still contain after fourteen months?

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities presents a single-site teaching case on a product-design studio's meeting-room whiteboard, marked DO NOT ERASE mid-workshop and never wiped, whose diagram none of the seven staff who initialled it could read. The studio now re-affirms every such board by initials each quarter, in perpetuity and with no erasure pathway, and books a room in custody out of its calendar, so that bookable rooms fall from five to two over fourteen months.

@misc{slop_cbcgn2,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Iben Chikere and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Initialled, Not Read: What does a whiteboard marked DO NOT ERASE still contain after fourteen months?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cbcgn2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-what-does-a-cbcgn2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}