2 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/000671d6971b6474d590510cc47a8847.jpg 4b93c4f99c085a7a53e5b05c4c9b63f8 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 Andrew Soldini Description An account of the resource The sketch that I made was for the most part accurate in the depiction of known regions yet struggled on its representation of places not usually traveled. For example, the yard is represented fairly accurately down to the walking paths yet the law school shows very little accuracy to what is actually there. I also did not do a very good job of encompassing the full size of the places I have less knowledge of. There are missing regions and buildings. The exact alignment of streets with landmarks was a difficult task where there were a few misaligned areas due to making structures larger than they are proportionally in real life. It showed that I relate to the city in a very practical way. The stores I go to and the buildings I walk around and go into are the ones that I remember. The irregular shape of some buildings also provides a challenge to the fixed grid notions of uniformity that are easier to imagine and work with. Many times I had to go back and add the interesting features such as the road splitting where the Lampoon building is. It was also true that the buildings that are more prominent in my own life were disproportionately larger on my map, another sign of implicit bias toward the self in the mind’s eye. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/8df611b8b6a46440e3837eeede83855c.pdf 6a756da78924b447fd512ebbc9a1df31 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 Sofia Shapiro Description An account of the resource As a resident of Adams House, which is right next to the yard, without thinking too much about the scale of my drawing, I ended up focusing pretty narrowly on the aspects of Harvard Square that I visit regularly. What was very surprising to me after the fact was how large I had draw certain shopping center areas, like the Garage, relative to Harvard dorm buildings, including ones I had lived in. Since I do not spend a lot of time shopping but do have to pass by those stores, in my map they took up far more space because that’s how it feels when navigating through the shopping areas - like an inconvenient time loss. Perhaps a tourist would have drawn a map with more detail and correctness of the shops as opposed to a busy student going to and from class. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/e75b771d1cab04ecc455532201857b56.jpg 64a78e98bd5b45c768ddcb4cd35302b3 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 Sofia Schreiber https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/65ce58fd64f36312ab4b49e7bde71f4a.pdf db69b17def7ee243b47dd4019e37c0d5 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 Dylan Polachi Description An account of the resource I sketched the spaces of the square that have played an important role in my experience here at Harvard. Several things stand out to me after reviewing my final sketch. First, I underestimated the size of Dunster House relative to neighboring houses. This was a pattern I noticed over the several sketches that I attempted for my final. Additionally, I inflated the size of the buildings north of the yard. I don’t take many classes there, and the unfamiliarity is likely the reason that the buildings are so large relative to the spaces I know well. I also inflated the size of the green off of Massachusetts Avenue, probably due to this strangeness as well. This exercise is important for understanding how individuals interact with cities. It suggests that we should explore areas of urban environments with which we are unfamiliar. Detailed investigations of these environments would help us create a more accurate mental map of spaces, and help us better understand the communities that we inhabit. Personally, I feel I could better understand Harvard Square and the areas previously unknown to me by simply walking through them and interacting with the people that inhabit them. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/380019c9e61b00f97d98f9f1f214fb77.pdf 897f04b733c11a564b17e92a24c86d25 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 Kartik Papatla Description An account of the resource I found this sketch exercise quite intriguing because I realized I had a good understanding and background knowledge for the layout of the Harvard campus spatially. More specifically, I had a good idea for which directions the campus spread in and, in general, where things exist relative to each other. That being said, after looking at a map of campus, I was definitely less familiar with those parts of the campus that I spend less time around. As you can see from my sketch, my layout of the river houses relative to each other is most definitely off, as well as the streets around them. I live in the quad and am a concentrator in SEAS with Secondary in Music. As a result, my knowledge of the Yard and the SEAS and Law campuses as well as neighboring buildings is much stronger. Some interesting challenges I came across with this exercise were deciding what orientation for the paper I wanted to start sketching, and, relatedly, the scale of my drawings of the buildings relative to each other. Moreover, I realized that I should pay more attention to the layout of buildings between streets themselves! This part in particular was more difficult than I had originally expected. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/8bff8c5c1c488fc1495a7c9c4724bda1.jpg 3e056f9068a7e0c6985c709c5fc06e52 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 Patrick Pan Description An account of the resource My initial reaction upon comparing my map was honestly accuracy -- everything in terms of streets and intersections is mostly accurate between the River Houses and the Science Center, with the exceptions of having 1 fewer street between Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. and forgetting Bow St., near Mt. Auburn. What I had in accuracy for streets I definitely did not have for specific buildings, other than Harvard dorms. I could quite accurately depict most of the shapes of the houses and position of the first-year dorms, once I thought about it. One thing that occurred to me as I was drawing was that much of my knowledge came from times when I biked around the area, because vehicular transportation -- even by bicycle -- transports you quickly enough to expose the patterns of streets and intersections quickly enough to be remembered and mentally connected. Places where I could not or did not bike are almost invariably hazier. I think it is partially for this reason that the grid system, for example, is a construct with many American cities, where vehicular transport is an assumption, since pedestrians can wayfind without a grid but it is more heavily perceived by those in vehicles. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/7554b1f30036cfacba6886341a79aa1a.jpg 9f931838673ff85517f14389f7e41ebb https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/0c03e0cf87754376a2dbc605326a1e32.jpg c0dc09fbafc56f9465de86a0b93ecff1 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 Jake Nunley https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/62a591fb4b661021996fcdae7336dede.jpg cd28299d0a4308245e3670bd26d41bd8 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 Erica Newman-Corre Description An account of the resource In this drawing, while looking at private vs. public space, I tried to emphasize three kinds of space—Harvard space, green space, and streets (the most public space). Though there are more buildings in the area, I only included Harvard buildings and those with which I interact with in a Harvard setting because they are fall somewhere between public and private space. To my classmates and I, they are public—within the buildings outlined in gray, there are few places we are not allowed—but to the general populace, the buildings are largely guarded by swipe access or, in some cases, actual guards. The green space also falls in a gray area between public and private space. Some of these spaces are publically owned and accessible (Cambridge Common), some are privately owned but publically accessible (Harvard Yard), and some are fully private, gardens rather than parks (the courtyards within the houses). The streets share none of this fuzziness—they are open to everyone. What I found most enlightening and frustrating about creating this drawing was relating one section to the next—things would feel in scale, or seem right, but then when I would add the next piece, it wouldn’t fit together like it should. The streets feel straighter when you’re walking them. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/59d474d5d97c083de6f2a552fb5b9e3d.JPG a65c61f02b4fcf19d99deb9dea875c1d 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 Neumann Description An account of the resource I think that the overarching features of the area are similar in my drawing and in the actual map. I paid particular attention to the layout of buildings in the yard as well as the area near The Charles on the Somerville side. I also focused a lot on making sure to add color to the photo in order to separate different types of spaces, in particular: water, pavement, grass, and buildings (both classic brick and modern). One aspect that I found particularly difficult was the proportionality of roads, the exact directions of each road, and how the road systems are connected. In addition, while it was not very hard to picture each part of the map from the perspective of someone walking on the ground, I found it particularly difficult to mentally adjust this image to a bird’s eye view. I think that my map and the exact map are different primarily because people do not remember tiny details of places with which they do not normally interact. For example, I walk down JFK St. to the boathouse every day yet I could hardly remember the order of the shops along the street except for the ones that I frequently visit (i.e. CVS). However, as I mentioned earlier, I think that people retain a good general relative spatial perception of the area around them with regard to the general shapes of roads, buildings, and parks. In other words, I know that the Science Center is beside Annenberg and across from Canaday, but it is hard for me to remember exactly how the path between the buildings looks or what the relative distances between each one are. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/452034d3242859863b77534f4add0acc.jpg 3831e3f53e156ed4633cea9551f4f33a 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 Rachel Nadboy Description An account of the resource Looking at Google Map shows me that I have a basic understanding of the layout of Harvard Yard, but my map does not accurately portray Harvard Square and the Quad. I have included almost all of the buildings in Harvard Yard, and they are in the correct location in relation to one another. I did not place Robinson, Sever, and Emerson in the right spots in the Yard, so my map has a lot of empty space where they should be located. But, the sizes of the freshman dorms and the libraries are pretty accurate on my map. Outside of the Yard, I did not construct Harvard Square correctly, but I did include the streets that border the Yard. I had a lot of trouble figuring out where all the houses are in relation to one another, so I ended up estimating. On the other side of the Yard, the only buildings I knew how to sketch were the Science Center and Memorial Hall. I did not know how close the Law School is to the Science Center, but I knew it is behind it. I suppose that the two maps are so different because I only knew how to construct a map of the places I visit on a regular basis – the Yard, especially my dorm and the surrounding dorms, and the Science Center and Annenberg. I do not go to the Quad often, so I did not know how to map out the building configuration. Similarly, I have not been to the Law School many times, so it was tough for me to pinpoint its exact location. This suggests that we only use a few parts of the city on a regular basis, and those are the places that we come to relate to. We only know how to sketch a map of the places that we visit often and have the opportunity to observe.