Ingrid Goetz

Ingrid Goetz

My ability to reproduce Harvard Square from memory was greatly shaped by my limited area of daily access. I live in Dunster House, which is on the eastern-most side of campus and all my classes are on Quincy Street. I rarely head north or west, even into the Yard—which also limits my awareness of how other people use those spaces. My process was to sketch from the bottom-right of my page (the south-east corner of campus) from what I knew best to what I knew least. Errors definitely compounded and I was fairly aware that I was choosing between correct orientation and scale. Scale was really difficult to keep constant as well.