Ivaana Rungta is a music researcher, lyrical storyteller, and sound artist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the Founder and Director of CCL. She obtained a degree in English Literature, Theatre, and Music. She had been instructing secondary and tertiary level pupils for 12 years until she decided to concentrate exclusively on educating her son at home. Following her son's acceptance into MIT at age 15, she rediscovered her enthusiasm for writing on many topics that fascinated her, such as dreams, feelings, memories, challenges, disorder and organization, art, and culture. She explored new worlds of experience beyond the ordinary by incorporating genuine discoveries and scientific research.
The completion of her project, titled "A Square and a Half-The Colors are Sounding," took her a span of 5 years. This project serves as a tribute to scientific research and aims to establish a sense of place and an open process. It also seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the concealed aspects of creation by exploring architectural spaces, the interplay between art and mathematical concepts, and the systematic examination and integration of poetic and aesthetic intuition.

Her primary objective was to promote a fresh outlook on narrative, music, and creative writing by fostering a spontaneous interaction between technology, mythology, art, design, literature, science, and music. The project was first introduced in a private setting at the MIT Museum on October 12th, 2018, attended by academics, professors, artists, and researchers without being made available to the general public. This marked the initial phase in establishing the educational values and objectives of her longstanding aspiration of an internet-based institution - Cambridge Creation Lab (CCL) - which would foster and mold the creativity of its participants by prioritizing cutting-edge research endeavors that integrate imaginative visions, interdisciplinary discussions, and highly original concepts. CCL is being constructed based on the principles of an intangible realm where discrepancies are resolved and connections between different fields, subjects, methods, media, and settings are established beyond exact categorizations and constantly evolving.

Ivaana has always been fascinated by the correlation between the substance of human communication and its inherent musicality, as shown in pace, rhythm, melody, repetition, and lyrics. She has been investigating the 'human voice as an instrument' concept and how words might be used to create musical scores and atmospheres that create accidental connections between lyrical and visual elements. She has collaborated with several artists, historians, poets, musicians, and scientists, focusing on empathy and transformation. She firmly thinks that by combining creative cooperation and interweaving diverse sensitivities, one might achieve an optimal condition of existence.

Through her work in dance and performance, she has delved into investigating and perceiving space. She refers to this exploration as creating visible and invisible calligraphic movements, which may or may not be expressed through words, design, or other narrative forms. The only purpose is to expand colors over the glistening surfaces of the imagination to astonish, innovate, and produce something remarkable. In addition, she believes that the perception of color-sound correspondences is most effectively achieved through synesthetic metaphors that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, she asserts that visual thinking does not require a brain specifically attuned to perceiving color but a mindset receptive to experiences beyond rational processes and cognitive theories. She believes that when we can understand the interconnectedness of the fragmented experiences of the physical world and our subconscious reactions to it, we can combine sensory perception with abstract ideas.

Engaging in profound observation, attentive listening, and thorough assimilation of the spaces, divisions, seeming disintegration, and subtle blending of disciplines is one of her preferred methods for delving into herself. In addition, she enjoys singing to her compositions based on chance, creating visual illustrations, exploring the concept of space-bodying through silent choreographies that involve symbolic dance movements, and discussing baseball with her son. Her son recently graduated from MIT with a mathematics major and is currently employed as a data analyst at the MIT Office of Open Learning.

Ivaana is currently writing her book, "The Shape of Memories." The book delves into how we depict experiences and memories as geometric shapes. Utilizing the methodologies offered by the field of mathematics, it aims to investigate how we recall our experiences and evaluate hypotheses regarding our cognitive processes, learning abilities, memory retention, and communication methods.

Contact Ivaana at ivaana@cambridgecreationlab.com