This project began with the question:
How can a toy grow with a child’s ability to understand it?
To answer that question I combined a design process from Victor Papenak with research from developmental psychologists Arnold Gesell and Jean Piaget.
Originally CanU was prototyped out of maple wood, now they are made out of cross-linked polyethylene foam. In addition to being modular, balancing, building blocks, black and white CanU are soft, and buoyant.
This toy challenges kids and adults a like in to being creative and develops spatial and visual thinking in everyone.
The new CanU can be a "pool puzzle" and is at home in a toy store or a classroom. In fact it can be played anywhere!
The prototypes of CanU have been sold to day-cares and families and currently the concept is in the process of being licensed.
