8 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/0f8979fa04acfa1687883d5ab709a796.jpg b13b342306dc63487ca2489490de75ee 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 Tracey Description An account of the resource In comparing my map of Harvard square and campus, I found some striking differences, but also many similarities. The most striking difference was that I drew my map on a straight grid based on the roads in the square, but in reality the roads actually have many twists and turns. I belive my map is an accurate representation of Harvard square, I think the river houses and the yard are particularly accurate because that is where I’ve spent most of my time on campus. I believe that my map is accurate because I think a lot about where I walk everyday, and which routes might be fastest. The quad is not central to my map because it is outside of my sphere of influence. I would say most of my time is spent between the river houses and the athletic facilities. The most difficult of this assignment for me was figuring out how to scale the map so as to include detail but also to ensure that I included the entire square. What I thought was most interesting about this assignment was how this map made me think about the square differently, for example I began the map by drawing out the houses, and based the scale around tat, but I think the most important/entertaining part of the square is the retail. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/7684af68d198af32200c67598312b0e9.JPG d5706d2928e8bcf7ff71382587b60744 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 Edward Vasquez Description An account of the resource In my drawings, I tended to focus on areas of Harvard’s campus at which I have spent significant amounts of time, places that I tend to pass through somewhat carelessly or with haste. In some sense, that is how I interact with the campus and with my environment: I focus on the bigger picture, and I infrequently take the time to appreciate smaller details which are designed with as much detail and care as the large ones. I had an easier time imagining the larger elements from which Harvard’s campus is composed, such as buildings and main arteries, rather than smaller details like trees and benches. I could easily locate, say, the different arenas on Soldiers Field (the athletic complex), or most of the buildings in the Yard. But I couldn’t connect the main paths and sidewalks—probably because I am a bad pedestrian and walk through lawns and streets more often than advised. I also tended to remember the different areas of importance to the Harvard Band (of which I am a member) and where we would normally travel—that is another way in which I frequently interact with the environment. I was also limited in my medium: I purchased a square notebook, and rather than drawing dozens of drawings trying to encapsulate all of the campus meticulously, I only focused on a vignette of the spaces assigned. This, too, made it difficult to consider where things began and ended, a problem we rarely encounter when we navigate with our favorite contemporary cartographer, Google. We rarely need to try and create our own mental images of the spaces we inhabit anymore, save for when a tourist or parent asks for directions (moments I relish because I like the mental challenge of envisioning routes and paths to a place). Thus it’s difficult to express our ideas well in written form, much less in a drawing. I enjoy the challenge, but it is difficult to settle for imperfection and incompleteness in the age of perfection and computers. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/fd3ac271f77acc7be893b6815a85736c.jpeg 96aa690d37739d5c5a6d303049cd1d65 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 Joy Wang Description An account of the resource In making my sketch, I started with the Quad, which, while far from the mind’s eye of many, is central to my understanding of Harvard as it is my home, and drew everything in relation to it. Something interesting I found while making my drawing is that even though the assignment called for personal impressions of the city, I tried my hardest throughout the process to envision it as accurately as possible, and spent hours trying to imagine the space in my mind and how exactly different parts of it fits together. This likely comes from the fact that I am well aware that I have a bad sense of direction, so a large part of my experience of the city is learning how to find my way (poorly, with the aid of Google Maps). Because of this, I realized that my understanding of the urban space occurs not as a well-developed mental map, but something more like a collection of discrete snapshots and impressions of specific places that I can picture individually in my mind, and then have to fit together consciously in space like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Therefore, one of the things that struck me most when I pulled up a map of Harvard, is how my buildings were all roughly squares rather than the shape of the actual buildings, since I retain the shape of the building in its entirety as little more than a concept composed of the experiences I have had there. Accordingly, my last step in the sketch, after trying to represent the space as accurately as possible, was to add the symbols that represent my daily life around Harvard. In a way, the sketch explained my poor sense of direction, and really revealed to me how my understanding consists of these impressions and snapshots of individual places imbued with personal memory. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/9d74d3ba129c14b25c85116769165a72.jpg f18952c6e9096be07e6860c6172ea7d3 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 Oriana Wang Description An account of the resource In my sketch, I aimed to draw an accurate representation of the heart of Harvard square, slightly off center from the main T stop, so that I could include the Yard in greater proportion. Overlaid on top of the physical layout of the buildings, shuttle stops, and pathways, I drew a time-signifying color coded map. In the morning, orange highlights my commute from the Quad to the Square and Yard area for classes and meetings. Afternoons perhaps have the widest range, with paths to the bank and other stops for errands, lunch spots, and sometimes the Harvard Book Store. Evenings in purple display the habit of my life after 5pm, which is either heading to the shuttle stops to go home, or to various spots such as JP Licks for ice cream with friends, Dumpling House off the map for dinner, or to the River and back, depending on my schedule for the day. I had the most difficulty with trying to accurately portray the relationships between different spots I knew well. The actual geometry of the Square, which I walk through multiple times a day, was embarrassingly difficult to draw, and I needed to piece together a quick rough draft after many erasures. Other details have been blatantly omitted, such as the many streets that are perpendicular to Mass Ave, since they all seem to blend together with their similar brick cobblestones and shops lining the sidewalk, although the assortment may vary. My sketch was generally accurate, but featured more heavily seemed to be places to study and to eat, since that symbolizes two of my priorities at Harvard. Both locations of classrooms, and food establishments where I meet friends and catch up and reflect on this period of our lives spent studying highlight the beginning and ends of the arrows I drew for my movements throughout different times of day. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/ebe90a41a82e2200b47838c8c589f410.pdf fe6dc3688816be704f77370c4adbc7ec 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 Jarrod Wetzel-Brown Description An account of the resource For this sketch exercise I mapped out a very small part of campus that is mostly centered around the portion of Cambridge where I find myself walking often when not in class. This is the region where JFK Street meets Memorial Drive near the Charles River. I am a resident of Winthrop House (one of the twelve upperclassmen houses), and this building is my home away from home. I am originally from Michigan, and water has always been a very important part of my life, so I am extremely fortunate to be so close to the Charles River. The river itself and the surrounding bits of green/ makeshift gardens are reminiscent of the lush landscape of my farming village, and they comfort me when I am missing my family. Along with Winthrop House, I have also highlighted six other locations on the map with a star icon because those places are locations where I have had precious experiences or made some sort of memory. I have highlighted one of my favorite study spots in the John F. Kennedy Park, the bar where I spent a stupendous evening for my twenty-first birthday, and even the Office of International Education where I have been developing my upcoming study abroad experience! There are obviously many more places that mean something to me on Harvard’s campus, but a few special locations have been noted on this first exercise! I hope you enjoy observing it! https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/6f9e1eca511bad50e3ba6e0375a7e32f.pdf 8878f6fa3002cc8d0cfc9222fea26b89 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 Veronica Wickline Description An account of the resource Sitting in the Starbucks at the corner of Mass Ave. and JFK feels like being in the center of the world. You are the axis around which activity turns. I chose this view as the vantage point for my map because it captures the buzz I associate with Harvard Square. Furthermore, this view resonates with me for its accessibility: anyone can walk up to the second floor of Starbucks and get a top-down view of the Square. So often, aerial view maps are a mark of power, often military power. To see a space from the top down is to comprehend it, even to posses it in a way. Even now you must have money or clout to access an aerial view. For example, you must have permission from Harvard to see Cambridge from the top of William James Hall or the Science Center. You must have the money for a plane ticket to see Boston from the air. At Starbucks, one finds an inexpensive union of individual pleasure and commercial power. If Starbucks weren't such a successful business, it would not be able to afford this central location and its patrons could not enjoy a top-down view of the Square. At the same time, any individual with three or four dollars to his name can purchase a coffee along with a day's access to Wifi, shelter, restrooms, and an aerial view of his environs. Even though I have a vague (and not at all justified) distaste for commercial coffee chains instead of independently-owned coffee shops, I appreciate the ways in which this champion of Capitalism empowers its patrons for a very affordable rate. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/5cc1939ca236b130e58cdc3cd5421d49.pdf f8d9a21ac5023b5046aeaf0dded3ca9e 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 Dylan Wong Description An account of the resource Although I initially sought out to draw the most accurate map of Harvard I could by memory, my sketch turned out to be a map of what is important to me in my daily life at Harvard. Most evidently, Harvard Yard is the most accurate part of the map and is displayed larger than scale in comparison to other parts of campus. I live in Harvard Yard and walk through it every time I go somewhere, so I knew the location of all the buildings and even had a reasonably accurate representation of the walking paths within the yard. Besides the yard, my map is filled based on places I go frequently. For example, the entire Harvard Square map was built using my knowledge of where restaurants are. I didn’t know exactly how the streets lined up, but I was able to recreate the city blocks after plotting the various restaurants that I knew. I did not know how to draw any of the upperclassmen houses. I drew the houses in the right order, but I had no idea of the shape of the houses and did not line them up with the city streets whatsoever. In the end, I think my map was exactly what I should have expected when I started drawing. It’s representative of what’s important to me: where I live and where I eat. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4bdb4ba0f406cfa217175e9634b0375a.jpg 7954d606d1978af1c6e8bb04a46e436c 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 Justin Wong Description An account of the resource Upon comparing my sketch with the official campus map, I was pleasantly surprised by its (relative) accuracy - perhaps a sign that, as a senior, I've been around here too long. There are a few things, however, that I noted based on my sketch. One is how the geography of campus (and of Boston in general) is so defined by the curvature of the Charles River. The river skews everything, and since Harvard's campus is located on a bend in the river, certain things are closer than they appear, and some farther. I failed to represent this very well in my map; for instance, some Houses along the river that appear in a straight line are not that way in real life. The fact that the city is laid out in relation to the river also makes it difficult to tell where the cardinal directions are. Normally, when I spend enough time in a place, I know where north, south, east, and west are, but because of the river, I have to re-orient myself, and have never quite been able to get my bearings in Boston. Another thing that was difficult to portray on the map were the streets of Harvard Square. While much of the Square is laid out in a rough grid, the one-way streets, strange intersections, traffic circles (like near the T stop), and other strange features made it difficult to draw an accurate map. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/91ceb7f660eeb8ba96124775c3788720.JPG 74898e9ec9998db2383c9b92b9fc34a0 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 Scarlett Yin Description An account of the resource My sketch focuses on providing functional information to the viewers as I believe the essence of urban design is to serve diverse needs of the population. To highlight this idea, I specifically marked commercial stores and building functions around the yard area so that viewers have a straightforward sense of what we can do in this area. Then, I also provided information on metro/shuttle/bicycle stops, road directions and traffic lights. Transportation not only links the functional architectures, itself is also a "moving space" in which viewers experience architectures from different angles/aspects externally, then in return the experience stimulates viewers' immersion into their own world internally during the commute. I lastly marked the densely populated areas. I hope to ask viewers if Harvard's design of combining residential, leisure and academic buildings make sense. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4b7cd27ede29caa893c407ceed1111ae.JPG 81c767cb95db5c4fd162e0b6bc101e98 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 Kate Yoon Description An account of the resource I started my first draft by drawing the roads first and then trying to fit the buildings in, but soon realized it would be impossible because I couldn’t picture the different roads and their relation to each other. Instead, I decided to draw buildings and green spaces in relation to each other first and then draw the roads around them. In the second step, I thought about the path I would take from one building to another. This was much easier for two reasons: first, because I think of Harvard in relation to the buildings I move between rather than the roads themselves, and second, because the Harvard Square area does not have a neat grid pattern that would be easy to draw out. This made the task considerably easier for me, but I still made many mistakes and omissions; I think one of the biggest reasons is that I don’t use the roads or buildings equally frequently at Harvard. For instance, even though I started with the green spaces, I left out the largest of them all: the Cambridge Common. This is probably because I never walk there (especially not at night) or sit there, unlike Harvard Yard or even the small lawn on JFK Street. I also missed a large part of the graduate school buildings north of the Science Center, even though that part of campus is just as big as the Yard. I am largely unfamiliar with those buildings, and could only remember certain buildings that I have been to before (Northwest Labs, Law School Library, etc.). Another reason for my biggest omissions was that Cambridge’s streets are inherently confusing. For instance, the intersection of Mass Ave, Peabody Street (which I didn’t even know existed) and Cambridge Street is not only confusing but also constantly under construction, so I had trouble visualizing that part and the triangular green space in between. I completely left out Bow and Arrow Streets because they were so confusing – I knew they existed, but couldn’t place them in relation to the other streets. (Bow Street curves around Adams House like a bow, which makes so much sense now). Brattle Street and Mount Auburn Street don’t intersect in my map. Often, walking in Cambridge, I cross two or three streets at once, especially when one of them is curved, without thinking about which street is which. Perhaps mapping out intersections of streets at odd angles would have helped me to draw a better map. This leads me to conclude that I mapped out Harvard based on my experience of Harvard. The best example of this is that I completely failed to account for the bend in the river and imagined it as a straight line, especially because that is how I feel when I walk along the river. The map is also (as I had expected) not even close to scale, particularly because I imagine some spaces to be much larger based on the importance they have in my life.