3 10 38 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/684983e943a3068d1ef23e8e63c41bf5.jpg 26a29b886f33ab3d45a5ecb291104025 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 2017 - 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 Anja Moser Description An account of the resource Comparing the sketch I drew from memory for this assignment to a map I bought when I arrived here in Cambridge three weeks ago, it stroke me that there were vast areas on the campus and in the city I did not know – let alone how they looked like. Whereas I was able to measure distances quite accurately - I believe this is thanks to my daily commute either on my bicycle or by foot - I was not able to sketch a “complete” map of Harvard Square and surrounding. Rather, I realized that my sketch only features the environment I interact with on a daily basis such as the buildings I have courses in, my local bakery or green spaces I use to go for a run – short, the sketch only featured what is important for me as an individual to be able to interact with the city and to get around in it. Furthermore, in contrast to the map I bought, I structured my sketch in commercial, residential and green areas – again a help for me to get around. Whereas the map only showed streets and houses and made no distinctions between different uses of the buildings and streets, my sketch allowed me to locate shops, private homes or University property and even bike lanes on the streets. In my opinion these differences between my sketch and the map stem from the following reasoning: maps are a highly simplified reflection of reality. By reducing complexity to one specific layer of a city – such as the street system and adjacent housing in the example of the map I bought – they allow their users to be able to orient themselves and find what they are looking for. However in order to be able to do so maps only show one aspect of the complex reality. If we for example included a heat map on top of the street map it would definitely serve the homeless person to find what he is looking for (a warm shelter) – however it would confuse the car driver looking for a specific street. Each map hence serves its own purpose. Therefore, I believe my sketch is different from the map I bought because it represents the layers important to me personally (green spaces, university buildings, roads were I bike etc.) – or put it differently because it represents my view of reality and how I relate to and interact with the city I now live in. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/0ab9bac77d9e54bfc1d93b3492842c4f.pdf 705aa160a2d73865e4e3fda87813fb38 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 2017 - 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 Eana Meng Description An account of the resource This"was"much"harder"than"I"expected!"I"made"a"few"drafts"because"I"kept"getting"the"proportions"and"the"layout"incorrect."I"think"I"still"could"have"done"a"better"job"with"the"proportions"–"it"seems"like"certain"buildings"and"streets"are"far"too"big,"but"I"was"happy"I"could"fit"most"of"the"things"I"wanted"into"the"sketch."I"wanted"mostly"to"focus"on"public/green"spaces"and"their"usage"–"which"is"what"my"sketch"highlights."I"wanted"to"show"how"much"of"the"green"space"or"public"spaces"designated"for"people"to"use"was"actually"being"used"–"which"is"very"little."The"main"flow"happens"on"the"small"streets"which"causes"a"lot"of"congestion."There"is"proper"use"of"green"space"in"the"Yard,"but"during"the"winter"months"much"of"the"space"is"blocked"off"so"there"is"some"congestion."Overall,"it"seems"like"there"is"ineffective"use"of"the"common"spaces"that"the"city"has"designated."""Comparing"my"sketch"to"the"actual"map,"I"didn’t"curve"my"streets"and"I"definitely"had"some"issues"with"sizing"and"shape!"Originally,"I"was"also"going"to"add"a"lot"more"details"and"other"aspects"but"I"realized"it"might"have"detracted"from"what"I"was"trying"to"show"–"thus"my"sketch"is"clearly"a"lot"less"detailed"than"the"actual"map!" https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f893922bc444a8d776291c8446a37b40.pdf cac078c17048fed248c5e2c01e082df4 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 2017 - 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 Miles McCollum Description An account of the resource Overall, I think my sketch is representative of the urban area surrounding Harvard Square. It was a challenging task, but lots of things are successful about the drawing, and are similar to the actual layout. In my sketch, the roads including Memorial Drive, JFK Street, Mt. Auburn Street, and Massachusetts Avenue, are where they are supposed to be. I thought closely about these main roads while I was sketching. Next, I tried to be as specific as possible when drawing the shapes of the buildings. Because I worked in the building over the summer, I knew that the basic shape of the Smith Campus Center is the letter H. Other buildings whose shapes were correct included the MAC, Lowell House, and Quincy. I also spend a lot of time walking through this area to get to the MAC. Areas where my sketch was different from the actual layout included the buildings to the west of JFK Street. I knew some of the specific restaurants such as Chipotle, but I struggled to draw the other surroundings. I have not spent any time driving on those roads, and there are some difficult intersections. Next, I really struggled with the Quad and Law School in my sketch. In my four years here, I have been out to the Quad less than 10 times. Additionally, when I go there I ride the shuttle, and coincidentally don’t pay as much attention to my surroundings. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/927b25ecf3ddfc8c9e0b7a298451cfa8.pdf 115586571fb2e1890e322e8c866b9957 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 2017 - 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 Tanner McColl Description An account of the resource I feel my memory map of Harvard University (stretching from the athletic facilities to the Quad) is actually fairly accurate as (for the record) I did almost this exact same assignment for a class I took first semester called Primitive Navigation. In that assignment, we first drew a memory map of Harvard’s campus and then walked to physically map it through a kind of combination of route and survey knowledge of the roads, buildings, and other landmarks. I feel I particularly captured the curve of the Charles River, the position of the River Houses along this curve, and the layout of the multitude of freshmen dorms and facilities within Harvard Yard. My memory map, however, falls apart perhaps in terms of scale and where the roads meet. I am quite used to the layout and order of the buildings of Harvard’s campus and the square, but I do not quite understand the curves and routes of the roads amongst these buildings. As such, the roads on my map are not quite correct, and many of them are too close together (especially Brattle and Church Street) leaving not enough room for the buildings that occupy the space between them. This, of course, may be due to the fact that I do not travel those roads much, similar to how I rarely travel to Radcliffe, Harvard Business School, the SEAS area, and Harvard Law School. These areas are mapped on my memory map, but I truly have no idea what buildings and what layout exists within the vague outlines of their borders. I think my map suggests that I am much more connected to the concrete facilities of Harvard University rather than the shops and surrounding businesses that do change throughout time. I also know much more about the individual routes that I take to the buildings that I frequent for class with other routes less traveled containing less information or more inaccurate building outlines and route curves due to the nature of my movement throughout Harvard’s campus. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/534af11e362e42a5e2b1aecd1ef4e938.pdf 15b2180cef8f4c34f5f90f4e7a6ae0c1 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 2017 - 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 Claudia Laurie Description An account of the resource My sketch was based on a diagram relating to major landmarks and centralities and how they relate to each other. I found myself starting to draw the landmarks that meant the most to me at my earliest days art Harvard, such as by drawing Harvard Yard and marking John Harvard statue as that was a frequent meeting point freshman year. I then expanded the map to important buildings I have had classes in, such as the GSD and Science Center. When I noted areas north-west of the yard, my drawings were much less accurate as I hardly ever go to the quad and am not that familiar with the western Law-school region. I then moved south, and as I did, closer to where I now currently live, the scale of my diagram increased incredibly to the point where the houses I spend the most amount of time are disproportionately massive in comparison to where I spend time during my earlier years. My diagram doesn't even get to representing the Harvard campus over the bridge as I don't have any strong memories of time over there and therefore the area seems insignificant to me. I was also struck by how my representations of landmarks were all rectangular. I felt that I was struggling to get every building I have spend time in, represented and did not have enough space to do so, especially as the scale became more and more disproportionate. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/c887c78d417708191b3471614c7ced93.pdf cf4adcb9e8bbcfb43bddf8ca2248b395 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 2017 - 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 Emily Johansen Description An account of the resource Comparing my sketch to a map of Harvard Square, I was unsurprised to find that the areas I walk were much more accurate than other areas in the square, but I was surprised that my ability to recall the region was markedly influenced by the types activities I do in those areas, rather than the amount of time I spend in them. I walk down Dunster Street everyday on my way to class, yet I forgot to include Winthrop Street, which is one of very few streets I cross to reach the Yard. On the other hand, I was able to easily recall the area along river (Eliot, Winthrop, Leverett Houses) with significantly greater accuracy, even though I live in none of those houses and only spend a fraction of my day in the area. I have rowing practice along that stretch of the university almost everyday, where I am not mindlessly distracted by thoughts of the next class. Though I am not at that point of the river during practice for an extended period of time, my time there is directed and part of my identity in a way that walking to class simply isn’t. This caused me to think beyond the trope of the city’s ability to affect its inhabitants and see the reverse: that my activity changes (my perception) of the superstructures around me. In other words, while I am influenced by my built environment, it is simultaneously influenced by me. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/481f31232d6bd9551923b627ba4ee38d.JPG 78143c3e37a078f2d4a2a4a688d9e50d https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/854ac153b6702e58f74977dd4414577d.jpg 66fb8cf57e8337765429070acced5d79 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 2017 - 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 Darrell Huang Description An account of the resource I started off the sketch quite unconfident in my memory of Harvard’s campus (and also in my ability to draw). However, comparing it to Google’s map of Harvard, my sketch does capture the locations of the Harvard Law School, the Yard, the Quad, and the Athletic complex relative to each other. Before I began my sketch, I was able to imagine a top-down view of the campus which gave me a clear sense of directionality. My memory failed when I was attempting to draw the streets that run through Harvard Square. I could not remember how long certain streets were, where streets intersected, and the directionality of the traffic. The reason for this may have been my lack of familiarity with certain parts of the campus; I have not been to parts of Brattle Street and have only made the trek to the Quad twice. Overall, my sketch was accurate in depicting the main parts of the campus, but failed to capture everything in between (i.e. streets, number of blocks, and other buildings). The parts of my sketch that were accurate include Harvard Yard, the Law School, and the surrounding areas. The parts that were a little off include JFK street and its surrounding blocks and the Quad. The parts that were completely false include the space west of the bridge to the athletic center as well as the neighborhood around the Quad. Furthermore, my roads were astonishingly off in regards to directionality and length. I suppose this reveals my lack of understanding of certain parts of the campus as well as my inattentiveness to the streets and roads of Harvard Square. This also reveals that I, along with many other freshmen I presume, spend the majority of my time in the Harvard Yard/Science Center area. Perhaps upperclassmen, graduate students, and residents would produce a wholly different sketch of Harvard Square. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/0698c4fd44e58016c52f286eddc3d67c.pdf cf602824f4ae0930acbe42b7801e2ea4 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 2017 - 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 Francesca Hess Description An account of the resource My map is fairly accurate in the locations where I spend the most time, I struggled to draw and map out locations where I rarely or never go. I was surprised at how inaccurate my scale was and I had to essentially create roads which I believed or assume to be there but in reality may not be. I was drawing my relationship to the space and not necessarily the space itself. This is especially apparent in my representation of the upper classman housing – I know that they exist and I know their rough location but I struggle to remember any specific details. I have also left out Loeb House and the Houghton Library which I sadly must admit I have never been in. To further show how my relationship to the area differs from others I drew the spaces which tend to have more traffic (be it pedestrian or car) and overlapped it with markers that indicate my movements during a typical day. Although my movements overlap with the tourists it tends to be in public or commercial areas. Perhaps this is due to the nature of being a college student and that I am focused around the campus but none the less it shows the area that urban planners should focus on the most. Specifically looking at my map I would say that these areas are JFK Street and the junction between Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/eb5baf9e6a8ebbc5d389472622b8ac8b.jpg edc3497c08259dd79feb2a4e33490678 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 2017 - 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 Eliot Harrison Description An account of the resource In my map of Harvard, I prioritised the spaces that I interact with. I largely ignored places across the river, in the quad, or beyond the Science Center, because I rarely venture to those areas of the campus. I live in Eliot House. I started my sketch at this intersection between the river and JFK Street which leads up to the Square and the Yard. Sketching showed me that everything—campus, shops, streets—are crammed into a dense area. However, shops are clearly delineated from campus. While the buildings are physically close together, the stores in Harvard Square occupy an entirely different world than the college. This includes residential Houses. As a result, an urban campus exists without being hectically intertwined with the city around it. Doing my sketch, I think I did a pretty good job at mapping the streets, as they follow a loose grid. Towards the edge of campus, I found that I didn’t know what to draw next because, as I wrote earlier, there are places that I just don’t go. I tried to draw pedestrian traffic in blue pen as a nebulous, sprawling mess. I thought about where I walk on any normal day and thought about how many people I might see around me at those times. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2f46193e351d998856886877347d5595.JPG 567280d9cd608a4b960b2c846cc6b7a6 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 2017 - 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 Ryan Halvorson Description An account of the resource My map of Cambridge expectedly captures the area from my unique point of view—specifically from that of a senior undergraduate football playing engineer who lives in a river house. Each of these qualities biases my perception and recall of my surroundings. The areas in my map with the most accurate detail are those that I visit most frequently: the paths between Mather and the science buildings, the athletic complex in Allston, the buildings around the yard (freshman dorms, Sever, etc.), and the various eating establishments and landmarks that I frequent along the river (area by Felipe’s and Chipotle, Hair Cuttery, etc.). On the contrary, the areas with the least amount of detail are those that I rarely interact with: various roads are missing or inaccurate (I have never driven a car in Cambridge), the land between the Yard and the Quad is almost entirely unknown, many non-university associated buildings were hazy, and many of the graduate school buildings are misplaced or absent. In general, my map features many block shapes and straight lines—quite the opposite of many parts of Cambridge in reality. I think this phenomenon can be explained by how I think about and use most parts of the city. Probably 80% of my time at Harvard has been spent in the same 20% of buildings. On the other hand, I have visited the other 80% of buildings on the map 1 time or fewer. Instead, I walk past them on my way to other things. In writing the map, I thought about these experiences, noting what landmarks and buildings I pass heading from one space to another.