3 10 93 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/5cc1939ca236b130e58cdc3cd5421d49.pdf f8d9a21ac5023b5046aeaf0dded3ca9e 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 Dylan Wong Description An account of the resource Although I initially sought out to draw the most accurate map of Harvard I could by memory, my sketch turned out to be a map of what is important to me in my daily life at Harvard. Most evidently, Harvard Yard is the most accurate part of the map and is displayed larger than scale in comparison to other parts of campus. I live in Harvard Yard and walk through it every time I go somewhere, so I knew the location of all the buildings and even had a reasonably accurate representation of the walking paths within the yard. Besides the yard, my map is filled based on places I go frequently. For example, the entire Harvard Square map was built using my knowledge of where restaurants are. I didn’t know exactly how the streets lined up, but I was able to recreate the city blocks after plotting the various restaurants that I knew. I did not know how to draw any of the upperclassmen houses. I drew the houses in the right order, but I had no idea of the shape of the houses and did not line them up with the city streets whatsoever. In the end, I think my map was exactly what I should have expected when I started drawing. It’s representative of what’s important to me: where I live and where I eat. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/6f9e1eca511bad50e3ba6e0375a7e32f.pdf 8878f6fa3002cc8d0cfc9222fea26b89 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 Veronica Wickline Description An account of the resource Sitting in the Starbucks at the corner of Mass Ave. and JFK feels like being in the center of the world. You are the axis around which activity turns. I chose this view as the vantage point for my map because it captures the buzz I associate with Harvard Square. Furthermore, this view resonates with me for its accessibility: anyone can walk up to the second floor of Starbucks and get a top-down view of the Square. So often, aerial view maps are a mark of power, often military power. To see a space from the top down is to comprehend it, even to posses it in a way. Even now you must have money or clout to access an aerial view. For example, you must have permission from Harvard to see Cambridge from the top of William James Hall or the Science Center. You must have the money for a plane ticket to see Boston from the air. At Starbucks, one finds an inexpensive union of individual pleasure and commercial power. If Starbucks weren't such a successful business, it would not be able to afford this central location and its patrons could not enjoy a top-down view of the Square. At the same time, any individual with three or four dollars to his name can purchase a coffee along with a day's access to Wifi, shelter, restrooms, and an aerial view of his environs. Even though I have a vague (and not at all justified) distaste for commercial coffee chains instead of independently-owned coffee shops, I appreciate the ways in which this champion of Capitalism empowers its patrons for a very affordable rate. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/ebe90a41a82e2200b47838c8c589f410.pdf fe6dc3688816be704f77370c4adbc7ec 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 Jarrod Wetzel-Brown Description An account of the resource For this sketch exercise I mapped out a very small part of campus that is mostly centered around the portion of Cambridge where I find myself walking often when not in class. This is the region where JFK Street meets Memorial Drive near the Charles River. I am a resident of Winthrop House (one of the twelve upperclassmen houses), and this building is my home away from home. I am originally from Michigan, and water has always been a very important part of my life, so I am extremely fortunate to be so close to the Charles River. The river itself and the surrounding bits of green/ makeshift gardens are reminiscent of the lush landscape of my farming village, and they comfort me when I am missing my family. Along with Winthrop House, I have also highlighted six other locations on the map with a star icon because those places are locations where I have had precious experiences or made some sort of memory. I have highlighted one of my favorite study spots in the John F. Kennedy Park, the bar where I spent a stupendous evening for my twenty-first birthday, and even the Office of International Education where I have been developing my upcoming study abroad experience! There are obviously many more places that mean something to me on Harvard’s campus, but a few special locations have been noted on this first exercise! I hope you enjoy observing it! https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/9d74d3ba129c14b25c85116769165a72.jpg f18952c6e9096be07e6860c6172ea7d3 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 Oriana Wang Description An account of the resource In my sketch, I aimed to draw an accurate representation of the heart of Harvard square, slightly off center from the main T stop, so that I could include the Yard in greater proportion. Overlaid on top of the physical layout of the buildings, shuttle stops, and pathways, I drew a time-signifying color coded map. In the morning, orange highlights my commute from the Quad to the Square and Yard area for classes and meetings. Afternoons perhaps have the widest range, with paths to the bank and other stops for errands, lunch spots, and sometimes the Harvard Book Store. Evenings in purple display the habit of my life after 5pm, which is either heading to the shuttle stops to go home, or to various spots such as JP Licks for ice cream with friends, Dumpling House off the map for dinner, or to the River and back, depending on my schedule for the day. I had the most difficulty with trying to accurately portray the relationships between different spots I knew well. The actual geometry of the Square, which I walk through multiple times a day, was embarrassingly difficult to draw, and I needed to piece together a quick rough draft after many erasures. Other details have been blatantly omitted, such as the many streets that are perpendicular to Mass Ave, since they all seem to blend together with their similar brick cobblestones and shops lining the sidewalk, although the assortment may vary. My sketch was generally accurate, but featured more heavily seemed to be places to study and to eat, since that symbolizes two of my priorities at Harvard. Both locations of classrooms, and food establishments where I meet friends and catch up and reflect on this period of our lives spent studying highlight the beginning and ends of the arrows I drew for my movements throughout different times of day. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/fd3ac271f77acc7be893b6815a85736c.jpeg 96aa690d37739d5c5a6d303049cd1d65 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 Joy Wang Description An account of the resource In making my sketch, I started with the Quad, which, while far from the mind’s eye of many, is central to my understanding of Harvard as it is my home, and drew everything in relation to it. Something interesting I found while making my drawing is that even though the assignment called for personal impressions of the city, I tried my hardest throughout the process to envision it as accurately as possible, and spent hours trying to imagine the space in my mind and how exactly different parts of it fits together. This likely comes from the fact that I am well aware that I have a bad sense of direction, so a large part of my experience of the city is learning how to find my way (poorly, with the aid of Google Maps). Because of this, I realized that my understanding of the urban space occurs not as a well-developed mental map, but something more like a collection of discrete snapshots and impressions of specific places that I can picture individually in my mind, and then have to fit together consciously in space like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Therefore, one of the things that struck me most when I pulled up a map of Harvard, is how my buildings were all roughly squares rather than the shape of the actual buildings, since I retain the shape of the building in its entirety as little more than a concept composed of the experiences I have had there. Accordingly, my last step in the sketch, after trying to represent the space as accurately as possible, was to add the symbols that represent my daily life around Harvard. In a way, the sketch explained my poor sense of direction, and really revealed to me how my understanding consists of these impressions and snapshots of individual places imbued with personal memory. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/7684af68d198af32200c67598312b0e9.JPG d5706d2928e8bcf7ff71382587b60744 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 Edward Vasquez Description An account of the resource In my drawings, I tended to focus on areas of Harvard’s campus at which I have spent significant amounts of time, places that I tend to pass through somewhat carelessly or with haste. In some sense, that is how I interact with the campus and with my environment: I focus on the bigger picture, and I infrequently take the time to appreciate smaller details which are designed with as much detail and care as the large ones. I had an easier time imagining the larger elements from which Harvard’s campus is composed, such as buildings and main arteries, rather than smaller details like trees and benches. I could easily locate, say, the different arenas on Soldiers Field (the athletic complex), or most of the buildings in the Yard. But I couldn’t connect the main paths and sidewalks—probably because I am a bad pedestrian and walk through lawns and streets more often than advised. I also tended to remember the different areas of importance to the Harvard Band (of which I am a member) and where we would normally travel—that is another way in which I frequently interact with the environment. I was also limited in my medium: I purchased a square notebook, and rather than drawing dozens of drawings trying to encapsulate all of the campus meticulously, I only focused on a vignette of the spaces assigned. This, too, made it difficult to consider where things began and ended, a problem we rarely encounter when we navigate with our favorite contemporary cartographer, Google. We rarely need to try and create our own mental images of the spaces we inhabit anymore, save for when a tourist or parent asks for directions (moments I relish because I like the mental challenge of envisioning routes and paths to a place). Thus it’s difficult to express our ideas well in written form, much less in a drawing. I enjoy the challenge, but it is difficult to settle for imperfection and incompleteness in the age of perfection and computers. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/0f8979fa04acfa1687883d5ab709a796.jpg b13b342306dc63487ca2489490de75ee 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 Lauren Tracey Description An account of the resource In comparing my map of Harvard square and campus, I found some striking differences, but also many similarities. The most striking difference was that I drew my map on a straight grid based on the roads in the square, but in reality the roads actually have many twists and turns. I belive my map is an accurate representation of Harvard square, I think the river houses and the yard are particularly accurate because that is where I’ve spent most of my time on campus. I believe that my map is accurate because I think a lot about where I walk everyday, and which routes might be fastest. The quad is not central to my map because it is outside of my sphere of influence. I would say most of my time is spent between the river houses and the athletic facilities. The most difficult of this assignment for me was figuring out how to scale the map so as to include detail but also to ensure that I included the entire square. What I thought was most interesting about this assignment was how this map made me think about the square differently, for example I began the map by drawing out the houses, and based the scale around tat, but I think the most important/entertaining part of the square is the retail. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2f797b4112c1aed3259b3d7c2679c38b.pdf 66d410b1eafe1cdfe261ee1fa11788ab 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 John Tournas Description An account of the resource With this drawing, I was interested in how students move throughout an urban system of which their university is a part. I tried to depict from personal experience and observation of others, how students tend to interact with public vs. private university-owned space. From what I have seen, most undergraduate students do not make their way very far from university-property. Indeed, even when en-route from dorm to class, the average student will not engage with the environment around them nearly as much as they would were it Harvard property. To put it more simply, I tried to represent the “Harvard Bubble.” As a result, my map looks much different than Google Maps in its scale and what I chose to include or exclude. In the spaces where students actively frequent such as the Science Center Plaza, or Harvard Square, I drew more detailed buildings and streets to show the increased level of interaction. On the route from the Quad to the Square, on the other hand, students do not often veer away from Mass Ave., or walk down side streets. I also attempted to draw attention to this phenomenon by including a “student path,” which goes through different parts of the campus, and so shows the different densities of interaction that most students engage in regularly. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/413aa2401dc83da38332b18f451a59cb.jpg e2516a4ea81ff05cd310b1ea11d8710f 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 Karen Tocatly Description An account of the resource I decided that I wanted to try and depict what is a significant segment of the square to me from the angle that seems most familiar: the start of my journey from home to school. This immediately clarified to me my immense blind spots regarding the route I trudge through every day: I was able to immediately “fill in” the details of important landmarks (e.g., the commercial building facing my home; the psychology building) – and could vaguely imagine the relative geographical relationships amongst these buildings – but had absolutely no sense of the location and aesthetics of the many other objects and streets between them. Thus, my first challenge was finding an approximate way to depict the key locations I had imagined “at large” and from a particular perspective/point in time, but I was thereafter more concerned by the many blank spaces that still remained: My sketch looked sterile and exaggeratedly suburban (conjuring up Celebration, Florida), and so I tried to add grungy details and guess at the location of some narrower roads – therefore sacrificing factual precision for an overall more “accurate” characterization. When I looked at Google Maps, I realized that I had missed numerous major streets and landmarks in my sketch, as well as the complex angles of those that I did include. I think this accentuates the overwhelming and limiting subjectivity of one’s perspective of his or her city: I had emphasized minute details (a menu on a storefront) while missing entire roads and buildings. Perhaps, for laypeople, residing in a city inevitably taints our knowledge of this place – as we succumb to the selective salience of daily living. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/5ddce8273d101575c7a87f1605180b86.pdf 26b5a94279970b15b7ea5f603d7d3e95 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 Khalid Tawil Description An account of the resource My sketch was done as if I was a cartography making a map of the city. My focus was not on how individual buildings appeared but rather how locations related to each other spatially. After finishing my sketch, I took a look at an actual map to find a glaring error in my sketch staring at me: the size of Harvard Yard. I had completely underestimated the size of the yard, making it about a fourth of its actual size. Another error, although unexpected, was my map’s orientation. I had always thought of Harvard Yard’s square shape to be representative of the cardinal directions, but apparently the Yard’s top right corner points at an angle of 25o from North. It"looks"I"included"all"the"buildings"I"know"about"correctly."On"some"lots"with"tall" structures"I"actually"drew"3d"towers"because"they"were"so"vital"in"my"perception"of"the"place." There"is"also"the"weird"phenomenon"of"lots"getting"larger"and"larger"the"farther"away"from"the" Yard"they"got."This"really"highlights"how"I"make"the"places"I"care"about"larger"than"they"actually." 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