7 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/30134207e8ac2fe3a7a5efd8c3b1aae6.jpg bd5b45144963907cddb22994b8f32df4 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 Timothy Shea Description An account of the resource In my sketch, I drew Harvard Yard and its surrounding areas with symbols and colors representing student housing, class or study spaces, tourist gathering areas, student gathering areas, and paths that students use to go from place to place. My map is fairly accurate in the roads from the Charles River to the Yard, but I was inaccurate west of JFK St. and north of the Yard. I also decided that my symbols would suffice for dorm and class buildings, which makes my map distinct from others. I have been to the Radcliffe Quad and the Law School campus only a few times, and this lack of familiarity showed in my sketch. These observations suggest that I am aware only of the areas of Harvard Square where I walk, and that there are individuals with independent perspectives that would likely draw a sketch reflecting different communal and physical characteristics of this area. Therefor one must be well researched in order to sketch an image of Harvard Square that gives the viewer an accurate visual and social understanding of the surrounding area. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/67d1e43f091d9cbbf46a6a7e7b47cdb7.jpg 8f5888cbdc5550a22a5d932e4cf95709 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 Linda Song Description An account of the resource My sketch tends to heavily focus on the riverside of Harvard Square. Unlike the actual map, I found that in my sketch I disproportionately scaled the buildings to a bigger size, making the other buildings along the northern end of Harvard difficult to fit. In part, this is due to my natural lack of understanding/experience/exposure to the northern part of the square -- I spend the most time along the river in my house (Leverett), and travel mostly up and down DeWolfe St. to get to and from my classes. The lack of detail I have in between the Quad and the yard is indicative of my lack of understanding of the space between the two either -- my perception is that the Quad exists and is there, but is in a way distanced from the rest of Harvard, as suggested by the abyss of blankness that separates it from the rest of the map. Overall, my map is relatively accurate along the riverside, but anything beyond that falls quickly out of proportion and detail. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/14b58555d24192ea6f0a9438f7db5c15.JPG 21fbf3565fb273d2f4e2ab885ef05d90 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 Liana Spiro Description An account of the resource I am a freshman. I barely live here. I’ve seen the Charles River probably five times in my entire life. I couldn’t get to Mather House even if you gave me a compass and directions printed off Google Maps. So this was a difficult exercise for me. My map is not very accurate. There are huge areas of the square that I had trouble transcribing accurately, or remembering at all. Obviously, the blurry areas are those which I occupy infrequently, usually because they house neither food nor friends. I think if I were given a blank layout of the streets of Cambridge, I could fill it in pretty easily. A lot of my confusion arose simply from the bending & diagonals of streets like Bow & Brattle. If Harvard were located in midtown Manhattan, this would have been a piece of cake. I am, however, very sure of the location of CVS. And I know where Thayer is. I live in Thayer. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/b5541eebf38c0ccb8b20208912f3cc17.JPG bfb4824afdb1949975acca4d8dbd9f11 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 Jacob Steinberg-Otter Description An account of the resource Although I’m biased, after comparing my map to a Google Maps image of the area, I would say my illustration was decently accurate. I have accounted relatively well for the positions of Harvard Yard relative to the law school, as well as the undergraduate houses on the river and Cambridge Common. My map’s scale is a bit off in certain areas, particularly Garden Street leading up to the Harvard Quad, and I did not accurately portray the edge of land to water by the Charles River. I don’t quite know why that’s true, but I imagine that the fact I drew Harvard Yard first and felt constrained by the edge of the paper played a role. In general, it appears as though my memory was much more accurate regarding placement of streets than other things like placement of buildings, etc. I’ve found this true in other parts of my life as well – I’ve always had a bad sense of direction, and that may be because I have a hard time remembering “landmarks” and their placement in space. At the same time, I’ve always been good with a map – If I have one, I can navigate my way around quite well. Indeed, I could picture a map in my brain relatively well once I’ve seen it a few times. The fact that my depiction of streets was more accurate than other objects may be a reflection of these. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/cc69fcbef04c3cd4e8161f60eb7419b8.jpg 6c64cad2af35dab8a312c279cc17858d 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 Lauren Stone Description An account of the resource The most significant insight that arises from my map is that the image of one’s world can be collapsed into the places he or she frequents. It is imminently clear that my overall directional and spatial knowledge of Harvard’s campus is relatively complete. Buildings are generally placed in the correct orientations with respect to one another. However, despite this latent perception, the disproportionate percentages of space taken up by certain areas, and the absence of some buildings altogether, represent my weaknesses. It seems that I have structured my map surrounding my daily activity. For example, the road from the Quad, where I live, to the Science Center holds a central location in the image, and is perhaps too isolated and large compared with reality. Conversely, I know nothing about some buildings and streets (not even locations), such as at the Law School. These unknowns therefore do not even appear on the map. Although I did attempt to depict certain buildings I know little about, like University Hall, I was unable to recall any details of their structure. Viewers will note that I provide icons superimposed on several buildings. These represent the emotions I usually experience at those locations. Those daily sensations — like hunger, stress (racing against the clock in the Science Center), or happiness when I am home in Currier House — shape my depiction of the campus. These locations (in addition to the Quad) serve as my center of campus and stand more prominently in my mind than all of Harvard Square, any part of the athletic area, or any River House. Finally, the places that I frequent, daily, can be said to provide a temporal dimension to the map by uniting past, present, and future. Notably, I excluded the T Station, which symbolizes that the daily walk that I have described is my commute. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2a5520ba59adf85857184692603feeb0.JPG 26d4716ef9daf77fe9dbb12e528e8f93 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 Rachel Stromberg Description An account of the resource My experience of mapping Harvard Square from memory was a frustrating one. It is one thing to know where two buildings are in relation to one another; it is quite another to know where those two buildings are in relation to a network of streets, landmarks, and thirty-odd other buildings. However, my map ended up being reasonably accurate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I mapped the area of the Square that is my “home turf” (namely, Quincy House and its surroundings) most accurately, and my map gets less specific and less accurate radiating outward from there. While sketching, I chose to differentiate between the places I knew for certain and those whose locations I was less sure of by drawing the former as angular shapes and the latter as formless blobs. I initially just hoped this would be symbolic of my uncertainty surrounding certain sites, but I realized that it is actually deeply reflective of the way I think about space, and the mental navigation system I use in real life. For instance, I do not know exactly where Dunster House is, nor even quite what it looks like, but I know that if I keep walking east along the river for a while, I will run into it fairly soon. Similarly, in my head, Northwest Labs are somewhere nebulously north and east of Annenberg and the Science Center. This level of specificity in my knowledge of location, although low, is perfectly sufficient to allow me to navigate the Square. The map in my head contains more blobs than rectangles, but it gets the job done. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/586e91dfcc2c9b075d842bf4d70ff1ff.jpg 195e3bd74e8b823c4076cb8425849cca 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 Rachel Tandias Description An account of the resource This assignment was very interesting in that it allowed me to assess my ability to concretely depict my mental representation of my surroundings. I began this exercise by visualizing my everyday route across campus from my dorm near the Charles River, through Harvard Square, and across Harvard Yard. I decided to create a “heat map” showing the areas that I most often frequent. Interestingly, although I was able to envision the buildings and streets in my mind nearly perfectly, I found it incredibly difficult to depict these structures on paper. It was particularly difficult to represent the shape and relative size of buildings, and I found that I was only able to sketch the relative orientation of structures by mentally navigating through the streets. After comparing my sketch to a real map, I was surprised by the number of retail and residential structures between the Charles River and Harvard Yard; as a student, I tend to think of the Square as a an academic campus rather than a diverse cityscape. The areas surrounding the science buildings and my own dorm (shown in red) were some of the most accurately depicted parts of my map, in both size and orientation, as much of my daily life is centered in these places. However, large regions of the Square such as side streets and humanities-based buildings (shown in blue) were depicted inaccurately or left off entirely because my interaction with these regions is very limited. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/5ddce8273d101575c7a87f1605180b86.pdf 26b5a94279970b15b7ea5f603d7d3e95 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 Khalid Tawil Description An account of the resource My sketch was done as if I was a cartography making a map of the city. My focus was not on how individual buildings appeared but rather how locations related to each other spatially. After finishing my sketch, I took a look at an actual map to find a glaring error in my sketch staring at me: the size of Harvard Yard. I had completely underestimated the size of the yard, making it about a fourth of its actual size. Another error, although unexpected, was my map’s orientation. I had always thought of Harvard Yard’s square shape to be representative of the cardinal directions, but apparently the Yard’s top right corner points at an angle of 25o from North. It"looks"I"included"all"the"buildings"I"know"about"correctly."On"some"lots"with"tall" structures"I"actually"drew"3d"towers"because"they"were"so"vital"in"my"perception"of"the"place." There"is"also"the"weird"phenomenon"of"lots"getting"larger"and"larger"the"farther"away"from"the" Yard"they"got."This"really"highlights"how"I"make"the"places"I"care"about"larger"than"they"actually." 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Title A name given to the resource Karen Tocatly Description An account of the resource I decided that I wanted to try and depict what is a significant segment of the square to me from the angle that seems most familiar: the start of my journey from home to school. This immediately clarified to me my immense blind spots regarding the route I trudge through every day: I was able to immediately “fill in” the details of important landmarks (e.g., the commercial building facing my home; the psychology building) – and could vaguely imagine the relative geographical relationships amongst these buildings – but had absolutely no sense of the location and aesthetics of the many other objects and streets between them. Thus, my first challenge was finding an approximate way to depict the key locations I had imagined “at large” and from a particular perspective/point in time, but I was thereafter more concerned by the many blank spaces that still remained: My sketch looked sterile and exaggeratedly suburban (conjuring up Celebration, Florida), and so I tried to add grungy details and guess at the location of some narrower roads – therefore sacrificing factual precision for an overall more “accurate” characterization. When I looked at Google Maps, I realized that I had missed numerous major streets and landmarks in my sketch, as well as the complex angles of those that I did include. I think this accentuates the overwhelming and limiting subjectivity of one’s perspective of his or her city: I had emphasized minute details (a menu on a storefront) while missing entire roads and buildings. Perhaps, for laypeople, residing in a city inevitably taints our knowledge of this place – as we succumb to the selective salience of daily living. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2f797b4112c1aed3259b3d7c2679c38b.pdf 66d410b1eafe1cdfe261ee1fa11788ab 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 John Tournas Description An account of the resource With this drawing, I was interested in how students move throughout an urban system of which their university is a part. I tried to depict from personal experience and observation of others, how students tend to interact with public vs. private university-owned space. From what I have seen, most undergraduate students do not make their way very far from university-property. Indeed, even when en-route from dorm to class, the average student will not engage with the environment around them nearly as much as they would were it Harvard property. To put it more simply, I tried to represent the “Harvard Bubble.” As a result, my map looks much different than Google Maps in its scale and what I chose to include or exclude. In the spaces where students actively frequent such as the Science Center Plaza, or Harvard Square, I drew more detailed buildings and streets to show the increased level of interaction. On the route from the Quad to the Square, on the other hand, students do not often veer away from Mass Ave., or walk down side streets. I also attempted to draw attention to this phenomenon by including a “student path,” which goes through different parts of the campus, and so shows the different densities of interaction that most students engage in regularly.