Process:
Find a map of one of your town, city or neighborhood and see how much you can remove from it (such as secondary streets) and how much you can abstract features such as parks, rivers, roads, and train tracks by using simple geometric forms: squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and simple lines. Can you accomplish this without your map losing its recognition and function for navigation? What does the result look like? You may be surprised at how beautiful the neighborhood looks in a simplified graphic form.
Reflection: What did you learn from this talk?
The first thing I noticed with this assignment was that trying to show the elevation of the ground was going to be a problem. My route was a path a usually took in the mornings in Peru. All of the areas are unbalanced since my urbanization is built on large sandhills. After I mapped the exact route I wanted to showcase the same feeling one gets by looking at the satellite map: cozy and natural. It was very interesting to see how looking at my new map and trying to make sense of the volumetric lines mad eme remember the cold breeze, the grey sky and the green smell wet grass gives in the mornings.
Can colors hinder our way of reading maps and our navigation?
