(re)Mapping Neighborhood through sense of touch

I chose to map my neighborhood through the sense of touch. Istanbul is the most crowded city I have ever been in and the one thing that stands out most for me is the sense of touch. It is seemingly impossible to walk anywhere in the city without being bumped or jostled by the many people making their way through the city. I chose three of the my most frequented spots in Istanbul, my flat, school, and Taksim square, and mapped the streets I must take to get there and their relative level of crowdedness. Once arriving in these spots I chose to describe more of an emotion sense of touch listing the sensory and feeling words I experience in each on these spaces.

-William Trakas