Week 6 Session: The Fresh Wall

Fresh food runs around the outside wall of every supermarket you've ever been in. Walk the whole perimeter and you've already walked the whole store — that's not a coincidence, it's the layout's real argument

29 March 2027

Before the session#

Recall the last store you were in. Try to draw its outer wall from memory before you draw anything else.

In the session#

The “fresh wall” — dairy, produce, bakery, meat, run around the building’s edge — forces a lap of the whole floor to reach any one of them. This is week two’s route argument, scaled up to the size of the whole building: the perimeter is not a shortcut, it is the longest reasonable path dressed as the natural one.

Afterwards#

This is the week the dérive report gets set. Read the brief before next session; you’ll want the whole semester’s inventory behind you when you write it.