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Miromations are short, highly participatory performances for 100\u2019s of people within a Miro board. Following simple rules inspired by Craig Reynolds code for boids (1987), the moments manifest a \u2018human murmurations\u2019 as participants followed simple principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flow of cursors, each one choreographed to follow a \u2018flight path\u2019 on the Miro board, and adhering to a rule base generated murmurations akin to the phenomenon that results when hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns through the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miromations lasted no more than 5 mins each, and they will be scheduled before or after panels \/ events during the DRS Festival of Emergence, the International Miro conference 2021, and through various periods of lockdown for online students. Each \u2018moment\u2019 was be recorded for playback and in memory of the social cohesion that exists across communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Background<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n During two years of distributed isolation from the design studio, one of the few reminders of the social activity that we craved was the flocking of cursors on a Miro board. Whether it was in small meetings, or large workshops of over 50, seeing the twitch and flow of collaborators across a Miro board became a temporary fix for the body language and energy that empowers co-creative activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This activity has been a thrill to watch as people organise post-its and add comments to explore an idea, and at times with a mass of participants, the movement is similar to the flocking of birds during a murmuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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