Christopher Reznich designed this model with Collin Cobia under the advise of Robert Gerard Pietrusko.
Migrations is a conceptual agent-based model illustrating the recursive relationship of human population growth and land use transformation. Historical and projected prehistoric population data and corresponding land use data create the landscape to which agents respond. As population density increases, agents cross thresholds that trigger transitions between different proto-behaviors, expressed in clustering and wandering tendencies. As the density of agents changes, traces of agent location signify lasting effects of occupation, even from transient populations. Multiple runs of the model show variability of outcomes where population centers aggregate unevenly, despite consistent underlying data.
Migrations Processing was published in the February 2019 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine in Mimi Zeiger’s piece LIVE AND LEARN.