1) The three scales should be chosen so as to reveal different qualities within and around your home environment. For example, you might choose to draw a plan of your house, a detailed map of your street and a less-detailed map of your neighbourhood, and analyze the different social qualities that exist at each of these scales. Please graphically indicate the scale on each drawing.
2) Represent spatial information first, with black line on a white background. You may choose to vary your lineweights to emphasize certain spatial qualities over others, or you may choose to maintain a single lineweight so as to not create a visual hierarchy.
3) Represent analytic information second, with colour line, wash or block. Provide a legend for your this information. Remember, colour can have powerful associative qualities that may override your legend definitions.
4) Upload your three drawings to the blog. Upload the drawing as large as possible (Blogger will downsize all images to 1600 pixels on the largest side). Remember to title and label your blog post correctly, and to curate as necessary.
This exercise is deliberately open to interpretation. The drawings should be reasonably accurate, but need not be measurable or hard-line: scanned free-hand drawings are perfectly acceptable. Your spatial information should include all objects that are spatially affective at the scale in question. Your analytical information should represent the qualities of the social spaces that exist within and around your home environment, again at the scale in question. These qualities could include, but are not limited to: vehicle traffic, pedestrian traffic, pet traffic, weather conditions, light conditions, perceived safety, cleanliness, fun-ness or any other variables of your choosing. It is expected that the spatial information you record will be primarily objective and descriptive, while the analytical information will be primarily subjective and interpretive (though this is not necessarily always the case).
Click here to download the partial example that was shown in class. Note that this example is at one scale only.
Exercise Two is due at 8:30AM on Thursday, September 18.
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