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Practical exercise

Map your gali abstracted down to five important things

Abstraction is the move that lets a Google map of Lahore be readable on a phone screen: throw away ninety percent of the detail and keep only what matters for the question you are asking. You will pick a question about your own gali and draw a map that answers only that question.

20 min·starter
Mimi the mascot, encouraging you

Now try it

Map your gali abstracted down to five important things

Stretch

Make three different abstractions of the same gali for three different questions: where is it loud, where is it shaded in summer, where do kids play after Asr. Same gali, three completely different maps.

Goes into your portfolio

The photo gali-map-NN of the five symbol map plus a written caption stating the question, the five symbols, and what each represents.