ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the concept of zootechnologies and of swarming as a cultural technique with regard to four decisive application areas. First, it discusses the development of drone swarms under the hypothesis that these create a multifold ‘spatial intelligence.’ Second, it highlights the importance of a variety of agent-based modeling toolkits for the dissemination of ‘swarm-intelligent’ applications throughout different scientific disciplines. Third, it investigates the impact of ‘swarm intelligence’ on the field of architectural design and urbanism and discusses attempts to conceptually exploit swarming for architectural theory. Finally, it turns towards the research field of crowd control where ABM ‘pre-mediates’ human crowd dynamics and turns traditional concepts of ‘the mass’ upside down.
