Cas Holman – Designing for Play: Creativity and Collaboration

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Pine Point’s Royce Speaker Series is proud to host Cas Holman, Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, on Thursday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Building.

As the founder and principal designer at her independent toy company Heroes Will Rise, Cas creates products that inspire children to explore in unstructured play environments with an essential sense of imagination. She has designed large-scale play spaces for projects around the globe including New York City’s High Line, and she has also created and marketed the Rigamajig play set which is used in a wide variety of educational settings including Pine Point School. One of her latest endeavors is a collaboration with LEGO Education on a year-long research project involving over 30 graduate and undergraduate students at RISD who will explore the role of “making” in the future of American culture and education.

Please join us to hear Cas Holman’s thoughts on how best to foster creativity in children as we prepare them for a world that will require them to work cooperatively with others.