Minecraft UN Block By Block project to help young people redesign their neighbourhoods

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Mojang is teaming up with UN Habitat to launch Block By Block, a project that creates real-word environments in Minecraft, and then lets the young people who live in those environments step in and show designers what they'd like to see changed.

Block By Block is based on an earlier initiative, Mina Kvarter (My Block), which offered young people "a tool to visualize their ideas of how they want to change their part of town."

"It has proven to be a great way to visualize urban planning ideas without necessarily having architectural training. The ideas presented by the citizens lay as a ground for political decisions."

Tom Senior
Tom Senior

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.