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My current big project plays with the visceral reality of territory.

We all invest in land, in boxes to inhabit, nations go to war as they dispute territory. Land equals wealth. The property market goes down the whole economy follows. We use maps to navigate this neatly organized world of possession. Public space and Private space.

Maps get me from a to b, they point out landmarks, even give me traffic information. But there are many types of maps, of cartographing reality and the one I'm most interested in exploring and helping create is a new visceral territorial map. Tribocracy.

A layer on top of the cartographic maps we know so well. A map that informs me of who is claiming what territories. A map aimed at an younger audience, that allows them to pinpoint their dwelling, project their desires onto it: it only takes 3 points to claim an area, but you have to physically be in that area. I can claim the tower of london, if only i can encircle it... 

A map that is both physical and virtual where I can see who dwells in my newly claimed territory. A map that allows me to escape this political reality we are bound to and generate a new layer of meaning. Tribocracy.

Mekwa is a social utility that helps users, friends and strangers to connect in a meaningful way. It does so by empowering users to satisfy each other's wishes. To surprise each other.

Users create a Mekwa, a little being that goes out into the world on their behalf, carrying nothing but wishes that need to be fulfilled. Simple things: surprise me, sing for me...

Mekwa as an engine is about Digital Altruism (paper coming soon).

http://show.mekwa.com is an old old old presentation, but has a few slides and a video explaining what Mekwa was about. It's interesting to see it and compare it with the now live beta. Yes, the new beta is now live and rocking at mekwa.com

Bandstocks is a service that allows fans to invest in artists' musical projects.

Most wanted is a dating concept that plays with current standard dating models and puts a price tag on users.

bbc.co.uk is one of the most visited sites in the world and sits on a huge repository of content.

I lead a project that looked at the BBC page and came up with a new structure to organize content in a modular way. Once that was established the problem at hand became one of search. How to empower the user with seamless access to what is important, when what is important may be hidden in the past, about to be broadcast or still scheduled in the future... BBC iQ is the next generation of bbc.co.uk

Project that reconnects the BBC's factual tradition with a younger audience whilst celebrating Darwin's bicentenial.

AIR : Augmented interactive Reality is a framework that allows our media partners to incorporate in their print publications AIR promotions. The drive behind this is to bring newspapers back to life.

Pin your dream is an online platform that allows the media owner to run several competitions under one map-based interface.

Snoggr.com is a service aimed at increasing the amount of kissing in the UK. We noticed people don't really kiss that much in this island so I created Snoggr.

This is a typical case-study on how to innovate on the service layer using modularization.
Big media are always looking for new ways to monetise their pages. Ads are fine, but alternatives are welcome. This is an alternative.