Patterns (DC1 blog entry#4)

As a kid, my sister used to bring me to Limketkai mall and ride the bump cars, Ferris wheel, skate in the skating rink, buy tokens and play in the arcade. Until one day, I got lost. I looked up, and the only thing I saw was the sky. I looked down, and the only thing I saw was cement. I looked sideways, I looked forward and backward, I looked around. No signs, no directions. Or if there were, I wouldn't be able to read it anyway coz I couldn't read back then. Anyway, that was the old Limketkai. Somehow I found my way to the customer's service and waited until my sister came for me. I got a little confused: why would people build such a big mall for such a small kid with no directions or pictures on where to go? How can the adults manage to stay on track and never get lost? In the same manner, community mapping is a visual representation of data by location or geography. For the past two activities of mapping, I understood that mapping is all about sketching a certain area detail by detail or with accuracy. Otherwise, the audience might still get lost even with a map (it defeats the purpose). I realized that a map can help not only those who are lost or unfamiliar of certain places, but to others who are used to the area already. This is because it makes patterns based on places much easier to identify or analyze. It also creates somewhat a communication to between the map creators to the audience quickly and effectively.

I think this can be applied to my community by simply making a map with 100% accuracy so that we are able to support social and economic change in our community and create a progress/development eventually.