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The most significant insight that arises from my map is that the image of one’s world can be collapsed into the places he or she frequents.

It is imminently clear that my overall directional and spatial knowledge of Harvard’s campus is relatively…

My experience of mapping Harvard Square from memory was a frustrating one. It is one thing to know where two buildings are in relation to one another; it is quite another to know where those two buildings are in relation to a network of streets,…

This assignment was very interesting in that it allowed me to assess my ability to concretely depict my mental representation of my surroundings. I began this exercise by visualizing my everyday route across campus from my dorm near the Charles…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…