Map(in) UNAM: Site as Text

Assignment 3 has to do with mapping the UNAM campus in order to show the viewer some contidion of this campus. Mapping is all about interpreting what you see. Seeing is all about perspectives. Therefore, mapping is just showing a personal perspective of something. When first introduced to this project, I thought of ancient maps used by Spaniards that came to colonize the Americas, and how they seemed somewhat distorted from the maps we are now used to see. These maps are not necesarilly distorted but just an ancient perspective of the world, according to a group of people.

Following this principles, we now have maps that depict everyhting, from sound, to geography, to population density, etc. Normally, in order to show your point of view of things, or to be able to map somehting you need to be familiar with the place, or at least have gone once. As a contrast, none of our group has ever been to the UNAM. This is why I see this assignment as the perfect opportunity to experiment with the UNAM campus, and to show the perspectives of a place with a magnitude, that has just been explored by us with the use of pictures.