Stigmergy

Design Studio 8 awarded WithHonors

Unit Soriano

Spring 2022 /ETSAM

Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an individual action stimulates the performance of a successive action by the same or a different agent. The behavior of groups of birds during the flight, in the surroundings of Bus Park No. 7 in Kyiv, is analyzed, simulating the simple rules that are followed by individuals.

This analysis joins two others on the lighting condition and the relative humidity in the environment, arriving at a complex situation in which three disparate programs occur simultaneously: a library for the rarest books in the world and installations by Bill Viola, a temporary swarm for bird species close to the environment and a treatment center through exposure therapy for existential phobias, nyctophobia, ornithophobia and acrophobia.

The complexity of the ensemble allows each program to be developed simultaneously, reacting indirectly to the stimuli of the rest of the programs, human and non-human agents, actions and atmospheres, as well as allowing the possibility of new situations being incorporated or arising. A new stigmergic relationship in Kyiv.