3 10 221 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/e3dda8db83494d2c42bd0b7e5a3aca29.jpg 0711dcc0704de08e4a837a7bae0d949a 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 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 Lisa Lu Description An account of the resource Overall, my map based on purely my memory of Harvard's campus depicted the relative locations of the different parts of campus (e.g. the Quad, the Yard, the SEAS area) accurately, but it was clear from the inaccuracies in the scaling, the location of the roads, and how well I could detail each area which places I frequented most often. As an upperclassmen living in the Quad, I was most familiar with the houses in the Quad along with the SOCH, as well as the shuttle route to the Yard. In actuality, the distance between the Quad and the rest of campus should appear to be longer. Compared to a normal map of campus, I was able to include more details on student commute (usually to class from their dorms), shuttle routes, and small details one might spot on the way from the Quad to class (like the cannons and statues in Cambridge Common), since I'm obviously familiar with those from personal experience. In contrast, my map lacked the details of the campus map in the Yard, the River Houses, and HBS Campus/athletic fields, and it contained inaccuracies in the roads, likely because I rarely frequent those areas, and I don't drive or go on the roads other than Oxford St. & Mass Ave. This exercise suggests that how we relate to an area is largely determined by our personal experiences and routines in the area as locals/inhabitants, as it's clear that my being an upperclassmen in the Quad as well as an engineering student dictates how I use the space. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/3948d3d2fb66831dc518174b06f317ae.JPG 020998d34ba747688e998d36cc5d68cb 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 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 Tyler Lott Description An account of the resource My first impression was that after looking at a map, the scale of my drawing was a bit off. Some buildings were a bit larger in the sketch than they actually are (Harvard Coop). I think this reflects what locations I've been to most in the Square. While I do not frequent the various stores (shown by my inaccurate drawing of the places behind Curious George), I spend quite a bit of time at the Coop. So in the sketch the size of the Coop was overestimated. I think the areas we use more often are overrepresented in terms of scale. I drew Straus Hall and Mathews Hall nearly the same size, where in reality Mathews is much larger. I live in Straus Hall, so perhaps that accounts for my size discrepancy. While I would have originally thought that the places people frequent more would be represented more accurately in a sketch, this is not the case for me. I, instead, draw the areas that I visit most frequently larger than than their actual size. Perhaps this oversize of buildings shows the significance of a building in my life. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/265b68931ac3fbdfee66218d2e67188e.pdf 32bfb18f2d8ee4a77f43a1cb29fa3679 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/af50f834959f388d1c133e32010487e3.pdf fb35da97f00961249aff0a55992c9e38 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/c03c72c5addf7775dfe768127b79af58.pdf 064e95369eed1c33b8fcf4bfac0bbc1f 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 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 Maxwell Lent Description An account of the resource In my sketch I realized the huge magnitude of the yard. The ins and outs that I normally walk through sorta paying attention. I remembered where things are that i usually never notice. The crowds of tourists and hungry patrons and where no one goes. The buildings whose shapes are just rectangles in my mind or abstract shapes. This assignment made me realize just how much of this campus I don't know. Some of my buildings just fade away into a cut off rectangle as i'm unsure of what's next. Or the missing spots, wrong angles, or totally off proportions. It made me realize the difference between day to day living and how a city can be so meticulously planned. One can live here all their life and not notice half the stuff until they take a step back and look at the city from a different perspective. While drawing this I made sure to focus on the green space. As it is the places I recognize the most, from walking across them to avoid crowds, to enjoying time there during the warmer seasons. They always stand out to me as places to attract people and help out the environment, visual and actual. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/eee4593d7a4bd499e5f6d1d11ebda94f.pdf 1bea1a59a15d116cfe00f470eeaa50aa 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 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 Tuongvan Le Description An account of the resource This drawing was heavily dependent on my personal exposure and time spent in each part of the Harvard campus. I realized that drawing the relative positions and paths connecting the buildings were the most difficult component. I generally know the direction of the places but sometimes it was hard to remember all the buildings on the same streets and where the building is located relative to the entire map in progress. I was more confident on the areas where I have had classes (SEAS) and spent lots of time walking around (the Yard, the river houses). I also had a hard time drawing the relative sizes of the building accurately but rather just drew a generic block to represent each building. This is because I usually just walk inside one part of the building but not the entire building so I can’t grasp the entire size of each building in my memory. There were also some buildings I remember exist but can’t quite remember the names. I remember them because of specific landmarks or activities associated with it such as this is the building where there’s a coffee shop or where a lot of my friends go to for labs. 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.