2 10 93 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2148520289bca056e4c2f24b1ea076f2.jpg 51185fdde02fd69b79e9a87622dfba63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Zhan Description An account of the resource Comparing my map to Google maps, my map is somewhat more accurate than I initially expected. The buildings I inhabit and use more frequently I was able to more accurately represent. Buildings such as Leverett House, the Lampoon castle, the Carpenter Center, and Sever Hall, I placed fairly accurately. Because I was certain about the locations of those buildings, I was able to do well in regards to the buildings surrounding them as well. My strategy when creating the map became to plot the buildings I was certain of and then radiate out from there. Consequently, the area from the main Harvard yard to the south of it to the river is fairly accurate on my map. However, in other areas of the square, my map is less accurate. In the main square, where the shops and restaurants are, I was only able to make guesses regarding the locations of shops I frequent, the rest were left blank. More generally, my map has a more precise grid than reality. In my version, I assumed a strict north/south, east/west alignment for streets and buildings. In reality, the streets of Harvard square are more angled and radiate in different directions. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/3ab3b8c2f5226bfab38be80218fece98.JPG eaf0d2c4284e0316f2f2e1e7d2d9a778 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Zaghouani Description An account of the resource As it turns out, my map is pretty inaccurate, but the relative location of each school is more or less correct. The most obvious inaccuracy is in the intricacies of all of the roads that connect Harvard Square. The most accurate part of my map with regards to roads is around the river houses, which makes sense, as I walk those roads every day. Additionally, in looking at the actual map of campus, I realized that there are quite a few more areas of heavy foot traffic than what I represented on my own map, but, again, I only depicted that foot traffic that corresponded to my daily route, more or less. Additionally, the way that I proportioned the map, the part of campus (Yard and River Houses) take up a disproportionate amount of space compared to the parts of campus that I almost never visit (the Quad, Law School, the Stadium and Business School campus). Moreover, it seems that as far as categories of building spaces go, the number of dorms that I drew is closest to the actual number of dorms that exist, whereas I vastly underrepresented every other type of building. This again hints at the fact that I am an undergraduate, and reflects where I spend most of my time. What I took away from this is that I have a very skewed perception of campus, and I should get out more! https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4fabc604719c60aa59792817497c598f.JPG 01ede5955eb247e9c08bb7dccd61b801 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Zachary Description An account of the resource I have been on campus for over a year and a half and am confident with my sense of the layout of the main streets and side streets. These are relatively accurate in my sketch. What is different is the structure of the buildings. I do not necessarily pay close attention to the size, width, and location of some building on, for example, Mass Ave. or Mt. Auburn street. Based on my memory, I was not able to recall walking paths or the exact curve or length of some streets. I would say that the main structure of my map is fairly accurate as well as the shape of the Harvard River dorms. I would suppose that my sketch and the Google map display of Harvard Square are different because I have not had a sharp awareness of the design and arrangement of buildings in Harvard Square. I hope that this class allows me to be more critical in viewing the structure and organization of this town. I hope that if I pay more attention, I will see Harvard in a new light and relate to the town more closely. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/1e391386d1ca8970fa94d057428c5f76.jpg 462be902692715b9356207aa863cf629 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This assignment turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated. I started by sketching the yard, but quickly found the both the river and the Quad were too far away for me to accurately render. Eventually I figured that drawing the map digitally and being able to stretch the canvas at will would be the easiest way. The areas that were easiest for me to draw (and probably the most difficult for some) was the area North of the Science Center. I live in the Dudley Coop and bike this way every day, and I spend a lot of time around Divinity Ave and Oxford Street as a biology concentrator. I tried to visualize everything as I drew it - what I saw on my left and right, how long it took me to walk or bike down a street, etc. - but it was still very difficult to remember the buildings I pass by every day. I didn’t know what any of the houses looked like from above (even Winthrop, where I used to live) so those ended up fairly inaccurate, except for Leverett Towers, which are somewhat distinctive. Mather and Dunster I rarely visit and so are relegated to being indistinct blobs. The case was the same for the business school and stadium. I was especially bad at delineating streets, as I don’t drive and rarely pay attention to traffic. There are several intersections I couldn’t get to link up: the one by Annenberg, for example, as well as the one by the T stop. I am typically not very good with directions, but I often use landmarks to guide me. I think for this reason I was able to draw most of the buildings that exist on Harvard campus, but their sizes and shapes are largely incorrect. Similarly, I’m sure a more avid driver would be able to draw the intersections and roads more easily than I. Title A name given to the resource Julia Yu https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f663c54c2b22fe47624488aa4f291b70.JPG 860828f10c9925c6a7f9a4eb66b27586 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gloria Yu Description An account of the resource I was concerned about this project because I have a terrible sense of direction. Part of it is due to the fact that because of a leg condition I have, I have not walked around too much and been able to explore large areas as much as others. Also, since I’m from Korea, where one doesn’t drive until a pretty late age, I have little driving experience. Hence, only having been driven around—which requires less concentration then actual driving—I found that when making this sketch as well, I was not very aware of roads nor have a spatial sense that one acquires when one walks and actively takes in their environment. I was pretty familiar with the River House area where I am used to walking around in (Leverett- Quincy- Adams House on the Bow Street side) because I live in Leverett House and have walked those streets on my way to and back from class. Also, since I viewed Leverett, where I live as the focal point, I subconsciously drew those houses on the River much larger, with everything else away from the houses close to the river—Harvard Yard, the Square, especially the Quad area progressively smaller. In my mind, I seemed to have had a subconscious sense of perspective, when since this is a bird’s eye view, would not necessarily exist. Although I was pretty familiar with the location of houses near the River, I was lost to where the roads lay, and their proportion to the buildings—probably because I’ve never driven around the River House area. I was also completely unaware of where the Quad is located—because with my leg, I had never directly walked to the quad, only using the shuttle for my occasional visits, which tend to meander and stop at various locations. Also, I noticed that in Harvard Square, because I’m more focused on getting to the one store I am headed to amongst the throng of people (which makes it very difficult for me to concentrate) rather than leisurely taking in my surroundings that it was difficult for me to remember the shops as a continuum, or even how many streets are in the square (which is something I forget in real life as well). The map I drew generally reflected my understanding and experience of Harvard Square—I remembered better places I had walked to-and-fro more often (River House Area near Lev, down Quincy Street & Bow street where most of my classes are located) and either the places I visited most often or places I was completely oblivious to (Eliot House) were drawn larger. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/a8a045ebbd7ba9ff16440e962c8d91af.pdf cb3efd2ceb3ad1e35271a2bab748b315 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spencer York Description An account of the resource This is a birds eye view of the area surrounding the MAC Quad. I chose this area because I live in Kirkland and I am very familiar with this area and knew I would be able to reproduce it well from memory. The scale may be slightly off and I do not know the exact layout of Eliot or Winthrop because I am never in them, but the general area I believe is correct. I drew in arrows to show the direction of traffic on the one and two way streets to show the general movement of the area. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/39f8450402b32669b08e7b605a148d7f.jpg a741bca29b2d8f70bc84985e8c51728c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert York Description An account of the resource This is a sketch of Harvard Yard, where all Harvard undergraduates live during their freshman year. I chose to draw this because it is by far the most familiar part of Harvard to me. Obviously, because I live here (Lionel Hall to be exact), I spend the vast majority of my time in the yard, so I have gotten to know the buildings very well. I think I got the sizes and locations of the buildings pretty accurate, but the walkways across the yard are just a mess and there is no way I could remember them exactly. Because I live in Lionel Hall, I am most familiar with that side of the yard, so I think that is the most accurate part of the sketch, but overall I think I remembered the layout of the yard as a whole pretty well. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4b7cd27ede29caa893c407ceed1111ae.JPG 81c767cb95db5c4fd162e0b6bc101e98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Yoon Description An account of the resource I started my first draft by drawing the roads first and then trying to fit the buildings in, but soon realized it would be impossible because I couldn’t picture the different roads and their relation to each other. Instead, I decided to draw buildings and green spaces in relation to each other first and then draw the roads around them. In the second step, I thought about the path I would take from one building to another. This was much easier for two reasons: first, because I think of Harvard in relation to the buildings I move between rather than the roads themselves, and second, because the Harvard Square area does not have a neat grid pattern that would be easy to draw out. This made the task considerably easier for me, but I still made many mistakes and omissions; I think one of the biggest reasons is that I don’t use the roads or buildings equally frequently at Harvard. For instance, even though I started with the green spaces, I left out the largest of them all: the Cambridge Common. This is probably because I never walk there (especially not at night) or sit there, unlike Harvard Yard or even the small lawn on JFK Street. I also missed a large part of the graduate school buildings north of the Science Center, even though that part of campus is just as big as the Yard. I am largely unfamiliar with those buildings, and could only remember certain buildings that I have been to before (Northwest Labs, Law School Library, etc.). Another reason for my biggest omissions was that Cambridge’s streets are inherently confusing. For instance, the intersection of Mass Ave, Peabody Street (which I didn’t even know existed) and Cambridge Street is not only confusing but also constantly under construction, so I had trouble visualizing that part and the triangular green space in between. I completely left out Bow and Arrow Streets because they were so confusing – I knew they existed, but couldn’t place them in relation to the other streets. (Bow Street curves around Adams House like a bow, which makes so much sense now). Brattle Street and Mount Auburn Street don’t intersect in my map. Often, walking in Cambridge, I cross two or three streets at once, especially when one of them is curved, without thinking about which street is which. Perhaps mapping out intersections of streets at odd angles would have helped me to draw a better map. This leads me to conclude that I mapped out Harvard based on my experience of Harvard. The best example of this is that I completely failed to account for the bend in the river and imagined it as a straight line, especially because that is how I feel when I walk along the river. The map is also (as I had expected) not even close to scale, particularly because I imagine some spaces to be much larger based on the importance they have in my life. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/91ceb7f660eeb8ba96124775c3788720.JPG 74898e9ec9998db2383c9b92b9fc34a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Scarlett Yin Description An account of the resource My sketch focuses on providing functional information to the viewers as I believe the essence of urban design is to serve diverse needs of the population. To highlight this idea, I specifically marked commercial stores and building functions around the yard area so that viewers have a straightforward sense of what we can do in this area. Then, I also provided information on metro/shuttle/bicycle stops, road directions and traffic lights. Transportation not only links the functional architectures, itself is also a "moving space" in which viewers experience architectures from different angles/aspects externally, then in return the experience stimulates viewers' immersion into their own world internally during the commute. I lastly marked the densely populated areas. I hope to ask viewers if Harvard's design of combining residential, leisure and academic buildings make sense. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4bdb4ba0f406cfa217175e9634b0375a.jpg 7954d606d1978af1c6e8bb04a46e436c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Justin Wong Description An account of the resource Upon comparing my sketch with the official campus map, I was pleasantly surprised by its (relative) accuracy - perhaps a sign that, as a senior, I've been around here too long. There are a few things, however, that I noted based on my sketch. One is how the geography of campus (and of Boston in general) is so defined by the curvature of the Charles River. The river skews everything, and since Harvard's campus is located on a bend in the river, certain things are closer than they appear, and some farther. I failed to represent this very well in my map; for instance, some Houses along the river that appear in a straight line are not that way in real life. The fact that the city is laid out in relation to the river also makes it difficult to tell where the cardinal directions are. Normally, when I spend enough time in a place, I know where north, south, east, and west are, but because of the river, I have to re-orient myself, and have never quite been able to get my bearings in Boston. Another thing that was difficult to portray on the map were the streets of Harvard Square. While much of the Square is laid out in a rough grid, the one-way streets, strange intersections, traffic circles (like near the T stop), and other strange features made it difficult to draw an accurate map.