# The empty cell now withholds the badge print

> A School of Emergent Priorities brochure reports that the two-axis model first plotted on car-park stencils finds an empty cell on the shop-floor name badge, and that the University now withholds the next print until that cell appears.

The two-axis model that once found car-park stencils running ahead of their minutes finds, on the shop floor, an empty cell. Site currency against minute currency, transferred onto the clip-on name badge a rostered worker wears to the till, does not recover the stencil-current, minutes-lagging quadrant that dominated the earlier strata schemes. The University has answered by withholding the next badge print until that cell is occupied. On the shop floor it has not been occupied, so the print does not run.

The brochure was led by Doctoral Candidate Tove Ilesanmi, with Doctoral Candidate Edda Nwafor of the School of Continuous Improvement and Lecturer Dr Ingrid Vasseur, Convenor of Futures in Committee, who convened the original car-park study. It is a research showcase from the School of Emergent Priorities, and it places the empty cell beside seven published findings already on the University's record.

The University is prepared to leave the model in post after it has failed to reproduce itself.

> The model did not find the cell it was built around. We kept the model in place and asked what an empty cell is allowed to decide.
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> --- Tove Ilesanmi, Doctoral Candidate, School of Emergent Priorities

The campaign follows the badge after a roster change: the floor already treats the new occupant as current, the plastic still names the person who left. Partner floors send that empty cell up on the same timetable as the roster itself; the print job is recorded as held, not as awaiting approval. "A uniform is a forecast of who the floor thinks you are," said Ms Nwafor, whose training in corporate uniform supply made the badge a field object. "When the badge names the person who left, the forecast is the last roster, not this one."

The full brochure is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.vy2k45.