Block by Block funds a piece of the process, or all of it: the public consultation with Minecraft, further discussions to rank priorities, architects’ drawings, permits and, finally, construction. So far, it’s finished nearly 100 projects, in 35 countries. The foundation chooses 10 to 20 projects to fund each year. Refugees from Sudan in Kalobeyei, Kenya used Minecraft to design part of their settlement: a place for refugees and local residents to mix, with shade structures, a playground and a motorcycle taxi stand.īlock by Block accepts applications from community groups who can show they have support from the local government. In Mdantsane, a town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, students made Minecraft improvements to their school for boys with physical disabilities. In Mitrovica, Kosovo, a city divided by a river into Albanian and Serb zones, people from both ethnicities came together to use Minecraft to improve the riverbank and market neighborhood at the bridge - the only place used by both communities. In Hanoi, for example, 45 schoolgirls used Minecraft to redesign pedestrian areas to create a safer walk to school. The point is to make more than a pleasant gathering place. Students showing designs for pedestrian safety at a workshop in Hanoi. It’s a tool that gives ordinary people a way to think like an architect.” We see positive engagement in these workshops. “But the most surprising thing is that it actually works. “When we first started, it felt like a crazy idea,” said Pontus Westerberg, the program management officer. The branch of the United Nations that works to improve cities, U.N.-Habitat, brought Minecraft to Kibera. In February 2013, residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi used it to redesign a sports field. Hallstrom called Mojang the next day, and with their cooperation he set up a few trial projects around Stockholm. Today, it’s the most-downloaded video game ever, according to a spokesman for Microsoft, which bought Mojang in 2014. Sumter said, using the acronym for computer-aided design.įorty million? More like 112 million active players every month.
“He’s tricked 40 million people into learning to use a CAD program,” Mr. Media Lab said in 2012 that Minecraft’s inventor hadn’t just built a game. Using Minecraft’s building blocks, players create castles, villages, entire worlds. It’s not a typical video game: In classic Minecraft, there’s no enemy, you don’t kill anyone or anything, and there’s nothing to win. The boy was playing Minecraft, a game invented two years before by the Swedish company Mojang.
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