Henry Heligas

Economist · Designer · Educator · Builder

Games and design about how cities work: where schools go, how kids get there, and who decides.

A Catchment board: a hex grid of Chicago streets with schools placed and the kids they reach shown in green.

Daily puzzle · Chicago

Catchment

Each day, a real Chicago neighborhood and a handful of schools. Place them to reach as many kids as you can, around the L, the parks and the expressways.

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The Student Shuffle

A board game about urban school district planning, built for the Chicago Architecture Biennial and installed at the Thompson Center. Every piece was scaled from real conditions in Chicago: one point for every hundred school-age kids, one street for every half-mile walk. Catchment is its first digital game.