{"id":40655,"date":"2014-06-07T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/building-creativity\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T16:00:16","slug":"building-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/building-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/our.risd.edu\/post\/88082485029\/building-creativity\">ourrisd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/8738329eb637747aaeeb82d06d902161\/tumblr_inline_n6plbiGmAF1riitg8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new and improved <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rigamajig.com\">Rigamajig<\/a><\/em> by Assistant Professor of Industrial Design\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/academics\/industrial-design\/faculty\/Cas-Holman\/\">Cas Holman<\/a><\/strong> \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 a 263-piece building kit for kids \u2013 officially launched at the end of May. Holman designed the kit to bolster creativity, teamwork and engineering skills among elementary school students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/25f51c57bc7b3ee1c0301c9b6f9a46f8\/tumblr_inline_n6pl6syK7B1riitg8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost kids don\u2019t get to build their own tree houses and forts anymore,\u201d Holman says. \u201cI\u2019m motivated to give kids opportunities to make their own realities, to be the boss of their own worlds.\u201d A life-long tinkerer herself, her concept allows kids to imagine and build an infinite number of contraptions with the planks, wheels, nuts, bolts, pulleys and ropes included in the kit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/eb34e4b32387a69f13ed2a5bd7ec203e\/tumblr_inline_n6pl72qpm21riitg8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the kit intentionally includes no instructions, it does provide \u201cplay prompts\u201d such as: \u201cUsing 15 pieces, make a contraption that can hold a 10-pound bag of potatoes\u201d and \u201cUse the <em>Rigamajig<\/em> to make a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/5f22fac80b46fa3fd3ae751844ca042c\/tumblr_inline_n6pl7dPX5g1riitg8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holman first introduced the <em>Rigamajig<\/em> concept in 2011 as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/about\/news\/2013\/the-art-of-play\/\">pop-up playground<\/a>\u201d intended to make NYC\u2019s Highline Trail more fun for families. She is currently partnering with nonprofit Kaboom to bring the modified kits to elementary schools across the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ourrisd: The new and improved Rigamajig by Assistant Professor of Industrial Design\u00a0Cas Holman \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 a 263-piece building kit for kids \u2013 officially launched at the end of May. Holman designed the kit to bolster creativity, teamwork and engineering skills among elementary school students. \u201cMost kids don\u2019t get to build their own tree houses and forts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-40655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-critical-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-azJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}