Andrew Soldini

Andrew Soldini

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.