What we do

Pineapplejazz is a Dutch design company that creates mobile, location-based experiences based on modern web technologies. Examples include:

• A location-aware audiotour built in HTML5
• An open sourced tool to build location-aware experiences
• A customer feedback system that uses edible location tracking cookies
• A simulation of an popularity based economy

What Tijmen is up to

• Working at Virtueel Platform on a new How Do You Do, as well as the SPRKR service
• Working at SETUP on many new events, meetups and plans, including a reboot of This Happened, an exhibit about The New Aesthetic, two get-togethers of Dutch Location Based Creatives, and much more.
• Working on very interesting location-based webservice which will stay secret for now..

 

Archive

• 2012 - Created a new product for SETUP: Real tracking cookies.
• 2012 - As program manager at Virtueel Platform I brough together represenatives of over 50 medialabs in Holland during the DEAF festival, after first curating a book about almost one hundred Dutch medialabs.
• 2012 - Sparked the creation of a new type of high-energy exhibition: the Expo Extravaganza, which uses the latest web- and mobile technologies to allow anyone to curate an exhibition, which itself is beamed onto the walls.
• 2012 - Produced the webapp for the Westerbork Luisterpad project, a HTML5 audiotour complete with GPS geo-fencing functionality.

• 2011 - As program manager at Virtueel Platform I created and curated a new event format called How Do You Do, which brought together over 50 top digital creatives and 500 visitors for close to 100 sessions about 'the making of' top Dutch Digital creativity. The event was held at the STRP festival.
• 2011 - Sparked many events and collaborations at SETUP, co-wrote large funding requests, and told funny stories during lunch.

• 2010 - Created a HTML5 version of the Treasuremapper software, an open source tool for creating location based experiences.
• 2010 - Jump-started SETUP by organising way too many events (over 50) and meeting a gazillion people in a three month pilot period.

• 2009 - Developed the Treasuremapper software, an open source tool for creating location based experiences on Nokia phones.
• 2009 - Worked with artist Esther polak on the Nomadic Milk project for 6 months, including a three week trip to Nigeria where we GPS-tracked Fulani herders and Wamco truckers. It's a long and fascinating story.

• 2008 - Created the Citizen Journalism project at the Incubate festival with designer Ruben Pater. In this project festival visitors can send picures to an urban screen, as well as have them printed out and glued to a wall, ready for 'analog comments'.
• 2008 - Sparked and co-developed the Gifted Project for the Impakt Festival.
• 2008 - Graduated with a masters in New Media and Digital Culture from the University of Utrecht

• 2006 - Organised the NetNiet.org Wireless Festival with two friends, on a tiny budget.

• 2005 - Graduated at the HKU with a masters in Digital Media Design.

Contact

Email: info@pineapplejazz.com
phone: +31 (0)30 655 0248

About

Pineapplejazz design is a highly networked new media production company based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. We work together with specialised professionals in our network to create tailor-made projects. We also organise events, lectures, and workshops, and give actionable advice where needed.

Pineapplejazz is run by Tijmen Schep who holds an MA in both interactive media design (graduating with an interactive urban screen) and new media theory (graduating with distinction on a thesis that critically examined ubiquitous computing ideology). This duality of perspective allows for a nuanced view of the field of design and technology.

Tijmen is a founding member of the NetNiet.org foundation and SETUP, Utrecht's event-focussed medialab. He is also an editor at This Happened. Tijmen has tought on pervasive and locative design at the HvA and the WDKA schools, and regularly lectures and hosts workshops.