Minecraft To Aid UN Regeneration Projects
Minecraft to aid UN regeneration projects
Minecraft is being used to create development plans for 300 locations around the world. Residents can then decide how the locations will change.
Block by Block is a collaboration between Minecraft-maker Mojang, UN Habitat and the Block by Block program.
Minecraft will be used to recreate urban areas, allowing residents to take a virtual trip.
They will also be able change the model and to decide how regeneration money should be spent.
One of the first places in Minecraft to be built as part of a pilot project for Block by Block is Undugu playground. It is located in the Kibera slum area on the outskirts Nairobi.
"We''ll be putting this into the game to allow people to walk around and feel it''s as real-life as possible," Lydia Winters from Mojang, community liaison manager, told BBC.
Fyre UK, a Minecraft modeling firm, has recreated Undugu on the computer. Residents living around the playground will soon be able to visit it to view the UN''s plans to revive it.
Virtual visits
Minecraft is set in a world made of cubes. Each cube can be made of a different material such as dirt or stone, iron oxide, diamond, and so on. Books and stuff To play the game, you can stack the cubes or break them into their raw materials to create objects.
UN Habitat approached Mojang because of the ease in which Minecraft can be used to model the real world, according to Ms Winters.
UN Habitat plans on redeveloping 300 areas by 2016, and Minecraft will be used to recreate them. This will allow residents to take part in the changes that will occur.
Ms Winters stated that "it''s bringing decision-makers together with the young to all decide on the common ground for public space around the world."
Details of the project were disclosed at the Minecon conference that took place in Paris between 24-25 Nov.
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