geografia affettiva (geanet) is about composing and mapping the interrelation of life and how to provide each member of a community/association/gang/group/band/etc. a tool to interact with the system and the other: to in-form (“to put into form”) his/her personal plan(s) and map(s) as part of a whole visualised, multilayered and dynamic network.

using the technology of the telephon networks (cellular phone networks / internet), the application provides the possibility to translate his/her physical/spatial and intellectual/spiritual moves (and its motivations behind) onto a web platform. this translation and mapping happens directly by the member by sending location- and (e)motion-based information (sms, web-online-editing) about individual spots, moments, movements, ways and stays.

the visual basics of geanet are maps/plans. each single member develops his/her individual cartography by working with the above mentioned technologies: his/her way in space in-between the poles of interest and affection becomes digital and visual because it evolved into a concrete physical state of being related. “individual landscape” becomes “condividual datascape” and “ I ” shapes up as a knot in the networks
of “ yous ”.

hence geanet includes as a central feature the possibility to overlap these individual maps and layers of information: this way a member is able to create new kind of versatile maps based on information derived from the individual meta-data of the community. his/her specific motivations, routes and destinations draw spots, lines, curves and intersections. a hyperlinked multi-layer-pattern of “all” ways and stays of a community composed by the individual movements and “meetings” of people, their imagination, wishes and projects emerges: a transpersonal cartography > an affective geography.





* please note: geografia affettiva is a open source project by c a l c