From the Cubicle By Ivaana

Curiosity Practices

By Ivaana | February 5, 2025 |

Curiosity has a peculiar silence. Like a llama crossing its rear legs, it rests with dignity, undisturbed by its environment. Curiosity is pervasive and profound. Elusive, furtive, mute, and wary, Curiosity has a unique persona, like the deer, who possesses…

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Unscroll The Eye-It is a Beautiful Thing

By Ivaana | January 27, 2025 |

Visual reasoning involves applying visual rationale, which encompasses interpreting and understanding visual information to address problems and make informed decisions based on observations. This capacity is crucial across numerous fields, such as science, architecture, and art, where examining visual cues…

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Thinking About Silence

By Ivaana | January 9, 2025 |

The realm of stillness is excessively cryptic and strange for comfort. Silence may be unbearable both in a social setting and for the individual. People often perceive those who are not quite as relatable because their voices fill the void…

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Is Reading a Design?

By Ivaana | December 27, 2024 |

“The moon must be monstrous coy, or some things fall out opportunely, or else almanacs are consulted by nocturnal adventurers; but so it is, that when Cynthia shows a round and chubby disk, few daring deeds are done. Though true…

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Learning Through Experience

By Ivaana | December 18, 2024 |

From the rigid realities of a landscape to the shifting motion of the horizon, a collection of symbolic systems shapes our cognition as we navigate and create existence.However, while confronting issues inside the sometimes-stagnating educational system, we neglect our participatory…

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Color Perceptions

By Ivaana | December 13, 2024 |

The classification of color remains a complex area of inquiry that has concerned philosophers, writers, and scientists throughout history. Is it an inherent characteristic of objects, such as dimensions and form? Is it an illusion, purely subjective and derived from…

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Optical Consciousness is a reprojection or realignment of the mind to create a multidimensional space

By Ivaana | December 6, 2024 |

I spent more than five years completing my project, A Square and a Half-The Colors are Sounding, culminating in its launch at the MIT Museum in the autumn of 2018. The project comprises twenty sung lyrical narratives or songs that…

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virtual spatial network

Defining Perspectival Spaces

By Ivaana | November 25, 2024 |

MIT researchers have discovered a novel method for constructing intricate three- dimensional structures using self-assembling polymer materials, which generate minuscule wires and junctions. They arrange block copolymer layers into orderly perpendicular rows, thus facilitating the creation of smaller chip components…

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cognitive development

Forming Habits in Pattern Thinking

By Ivaana | November 12, 2024 |

Is pattern thinking analogous to a recurrent behavioral coping mechanism? I have often contemplated this possibility and concluded that the identity inherent in notions or representations in pattern thinking cannot elucidate repetition; it requires a more significant ‘positive’ foundation. This…

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design methodology

Design Consciousness is Personal

By Ivaana | November 8, 2024 |

Throughout my childhood, I was unaware that I was a color-word synesthete. I only came to the realization that hearing words evoked vivid pictures much later in life. I was also captivated by the realm of shadows and consistently engaged…

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Complex Calculations

Designing The Thought Web

By Ivaana | November 8, 2024 |

A web emerges when several connections are established. Through experiences that endure over time, we start developing conscious and unconscious creative patterns from infancy. For instance, we may consider neural networks, cell clusters, and social insect colonies among systems that…

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