From the Cubicle By Ivaana
Curiosity Practices
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…
Read MoreUnscroll The Eye-It is a Beautiful Thing
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…
Read MoreThinking About Silence
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…
Read MoreIs Reading a Design?
“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…
Read MoreLearning Through Experience
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…
Read MoreColor Perceptions
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…
Read MoreOptical Consciousness is a reprojection or realignment of the mind to create a multidimensional space
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…
Read MoreDefining Perspectival Spaces
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…
Read MoreForming Habits in Pattern Thinking
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…
Read MoreDesign Consciousness is Personal
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…
Read MoreDesigning The Thought Web
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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