Mapped Poetries is a website mapped block by block to the Wall St. neighborhood of NYC. Each block has its own page, which shows a poem when accessed. These poems are generated from a list of the operating businesses on that block, which is sent in real-time to a poetry-generating algorithm created by the University of Coimbra, PoeTryMe. When users "end their walk" through the city, the poems from each of the blocks they "visited" are concatenated, forming a long poem they can download that encompasses their journey.
Business data is repurposed to create a space less focused on efficiency and profit, and more on a subjective experience. Chance encounters can flourish in this map of NYC, as opposed to the sterile god’s eye view of other data-heavy representations of the city.