Gaby Giotti

Gaby Giotti

One interesting thing I noted was that I completely turned the map’s orientation. That is, most maps illustrate the river to law school (down-up). For some reason, it was easier to envision the square and the Yard in that way. There was a clear poor sense of spacing in the areas I don’t often walk to. For example, the Dunster-Mather and Quad areas are very disproportionate. They are 1) too close to the yard and 2) either smaller or larger in comparison to other houses. Likewise, for the area past Lowell Lecture Hall—where I usually have class—there is a lot of free space and random buildings. Besides that, my map is fairly accurate to the original rendition. It captures most major buildings and provides a good sense of the pathways in play.

These differences in proportion might suggest that we remember and are able to identity common spaces. It makes sense that we are more likely to mentally map out the yards and buildings we walk through every day. In addition, we are probably not very good at identifying streets that are not set on a grid pattern