+ (Re)Creating Space: The Information Architecture of John Gay’s Trivia

+ Space Physical contact Why use geography? Space in poem, space in digital environment Information architecture

+ Information Architecture The structural design of shared information environments The art and science of organizing and labeling digital spaces and software to support findability and usability An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape

+ What to do with space? Alison Stenton’s “Spatial Stories: Movement in the City and Cultural Geography” “The London represented by Trivia is not just historical fact but also an imaginative fiction, what does a geographer do with descriptions of imagined space?” (62) What does the process of visualizing 18 th century London do for the contemporary literature researcher? What about misrepresentation of the space? Imagined versus real?

+ Places to Spaces “Refocus attention from places to spaces. Moving from geography to cultural geography destabilizes a binary relationship between fact and fiction to make room for something new—a geography that is neither fact nor fiction, but both: a representation of a space that is always, in part, imaginative” (62) Narrative vital yet problematic

+ Space Bias Here to sev’n Streets sev’n Dials count the Day, And from each other catch the circling Ray. Here oft the Peasant, with enquiring Face, Bewilder’d, trudges on from Place to Place; He dwells on ev’ry Sign with stupid Gaze, Enters the narrow Alley’s doubtful Maze, Trys ev’ry winding Court and Street in vain, And doubles o’er his weary Steps again (Book II).

+ Space Bias Geographical/Historical foundation persuasive Reality relies on readers’ preconceptions and preferences

+ Literature as information Intellectual space? Information architecture considers space and location Organization, labeling, navigation, search, thesauri/metadata

+ Digital Environments Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Project (Urban Simulation Team)

+ Mapping Charing Cross, London. Screen capture from Allison Muiri’s digitized Horwood’s Map of London ( ).

+ Visualization Figure 3. Recorded incidences of pocket picking by area in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey online,

+ So what? What does the process of visualizing 18 th century London do for the researcher/student? How does the idea of information architecture help us? The possibility that the visual data, and metadata, can lead to new approaches to the study of a text Question “information," as a sort of unassailable truth A holistic, more complex, understanding of space New information landscape requires new information architecture