TROXES - Origami Building Blocks

Troxes are triangular, interlocking building bricks. Designed at the MIT Media Lab as a medium for geometric play, Troxes exercise and deepen spatial thinking, and allow for the construction of objects as beautiful as they are unusual.

What inspired you to make this project?:
Our toys shape how we think. If rectangular building blocks dominate our play, we reinforce arbitrary limits on spatial thinking. That’s unfortunate, because unlike our toys, the world isn’t governed by right angles, and the ability to think deeply about space is profoundly valuable. Spatial thinking is critical to building any physical object, playing any sport, moving safely through the world, all visual art, and has been known, now and then, to alter human history.