THE PROCESS
As Prismatic Auditors we offer our services to communities like banks, hospitals, or shopping centres, anywhere groups of workers coexist for extended periods of time.
We do not provide answers. We assist people in discovering their own.
An audit begins with a period of community consultation/invitation followed by 12 days of intensive 9 – 5 data harvesting.
The data we gather depends on the people we are working with. Compliant workers are equipped with audit kits containing a spectrum display device (flagpole) that is placed in a publically visible location. Throughout the audit period participants are requested to change the colour of their flag whenever they feel it is emotionally, politically, socially, environmentally or aesthetically appropriate.
We cycle around the community logging the colour changes on an hourly basis, translating the data into an evolving graphic installation of micro and macro proportions. Worker’s individual chromatic fluctuations are tracked over the 12 days as well as collective geographic groupings such as floors, corridors or wings.
We then feed back the community’s prismatic profile in two daily public briefings, one at lunchtime and one at the end of the day. These presentations highlight chromatic solidarity, rivalry and emotional mood swings as well as providing participants with an opportunity to reflect on the bigger picture. At the close of the evening briefing a flag raising ceremony reveals the predominant colour of the day. Over the 12 days of the audit these flags are sequentially displayed in a communal area.
A grand ceremony marks the final briefing. The predominant colour of the entire audit becomes a giant cape which is worn by the most improved auditor while they run a loop of the workplace accompanied by whoops of collective joy from the audit participants.
What and how a community uses the data is none of our business.