Walkovitz_Mapping the Local: In Class

The first project, D.I.Y. New York City, is focused around a festival that occurred in New York City. In this project, the group talked about all of the events that occurred within and around this festival. The events of the festival varied from the Hillstock concerts to art, crafts, and other things that are based around activism.

Modern Gomorrah focused on the religious aspects of New York City. One of the pins on the map was a punk music concert that one of the members went to. This group member talked about the people he saw, what the people there were like, and just the overall atmosphere and feeling of the area. This group also went to visit a church, a painter, and a restaurant to help bring together their theme.

The final project group did not make it as clear as to what their theme was in comparison to the other two groups mentioned above. They did contain descriptions of their landmarks, but I’m not sure if they were focusing on architecture or what.

Lastly, Come Together NYC seemed to look at New York City as a whole and not really select a specific theme to base their landmarks on. It seemed as though they just went to a few different places, wrote their observations, and did not make any connections between those places that they visited.

Overall, I think this project should be a fun one since we get to go out and look at different places and just write about our observations. I like how we can include pictures or video to our project as well because it makes it seem more interesting than just writing. I feel like this project could be tough just in getting started and picking a theme. Although this project seems confusing, the example projects did help clear things up quite a bit though.