Cas Holman’s Search for the Ideal Playground | The New Yorker
“The reason I design for children is I’m designing for people,” Holman, who is featured in the second season of the Netflix series “Abstract: The Art of Design,” said. “Good toys make good people.”
Save this story Save this story What if the future of early-childhood education didn’t involve an iPad? What if, on the playground, movable blocks and ladders replaced fixed plastic slides and tubes? What if teachers acted more like guides and were less beholden to worksheets? School would be more like the creative process (rather than the counting-the-minutes crucible that many students experience) and the tools would look quite different: wooden play pieces, ropes and pulleys, nuts and bolts. That’s where Cas Holman comes in. Holman is the founder of the toy company Heroes Will Rise, a profe
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