# Pascal Maeder

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**Pascal Maeder** is a Swiss-Canadian [film producer](/source/Film_producer) and [cyberneticist](/source/Cybernetics).[1]

In 2020, he founded Urbanoid, a [technology company](/source/Technology_company) through which he led the research and development of [location intelligence](/source/Location_intelligence) systems, in collaboration with [Concordia University](/source/Concordia_University) in Canada and [EPFL](/source/EPFL) in Switzerland, for applications including space-time messaging, random urban tourism, and proximity shopping.[1][2][3]

Maeder had previously founded [Atopia](/source/Atopia_(company)), a film production company through which he produced and released several feature films including [S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic](/source/S.P.I.T.:_Squeegee_Punks_In_Traffic) (2001), [A Silent Love](/source/A_Silent_Love) (2004) and [Je me souviens](/source/Je_me_souviens_(2009_film)) (2009).[4][5]

Maeder studied film production at [Concordia University](/source/Mel_Hoppenheim_School_of_Cinema) in the late 1980s before co-founding [Dummies Theatre](/source/Dummies_Theatre), an experimental and interdisciplinary theatre company known for creating free site-specific works in vacant stores in Montreal during the 1990s.[6]

## References

1. ["International Conference on Gamification & Serious Game"](https://gsgs.ch/past-editions/gsgs22/). *GSGS22*. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 6 December 2022.

1. ["Advertising Cookies Ban: Montreal Startup Files Patent for AI Solution Based on Location Intelligence"](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/advertising-cookies-ban-montreal-startup-190200734.html). *Yahoo Finance*. 14 September 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

1. ["“Missed Connections: Encouraging social encounter, connection, and engagement through time‑ and location‑sensitive playful interaction and games among users/players of public space”"](https://www.mitacs.ca/our-projects/missed-connections-encouraging-social-encounter-connection-andengagement-through-time-and-location-sensitive-playful-interactionand-games-among-users-players-of-public-space/). *Mitacs*. Retrieved 25 March 2026.

1. ["Un Montréalais à la grand-messe de Robert Redford"](https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/45563/un-montrealais-a-la-grand-messe-de-robert-redford). *Le Devoir*. 24 January 2004. Retrieved 11 May 2017.

1. ["Grads get great reviews at Montreal World film Festival"](http://ctr.concordia.ca/2004-05/sept_9/14/index.shtml). *Concordia's Thursday Report*. 9 September 2004. Retrieved 11 May 2017.

1. ["Spectra, Dupuis start production on Kid Paddle"](http://playbackonline.ca/2002/11/25/qsc-20021125/). *Playback*. 25 November 2002. Retrieved 11 May 2017.

## External links

- [Pascal Maeder](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002531/) at IMDb
- [atopia.com archived website](https://web.archive.org/web/20070925230459/http://www.atopia.com/accueil.e/index.php)
- [urbanoid.com website](https://urbanoid.com/)

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