IndieCade 2013 - Loose Parts and Luddites
Channel: IndieCade
Date: 01/12/2014

IndieCade 2013 - "Loose Parts and Luddites"
Featuring Cas Holman

In this talk, Cas Holman delves into the importance of developing non digital toys and playgrounds to help foster creativity and problem solving in children.

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For the past nine years Cas has designed tools for the imagination. Her designs are manipulable parts and pieces which inspire constructive play, imaginative forms, and cooperative interactions between players. Abstract in their identity, these tool/toys inspire children and adults to imagine the origin and story of the toy as well as it's function.   Cas will talk about designing for child-directed, free play.  "What is it?" and "What does it do?" are answered in intuitive details, play prompts, and semiotic clues, making the instructions implicit in the tool/toy. She'll elaborate on her company's motto "Good toys make good people" and the importance of good old fashioned building blocks.

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