A group of 20 school children were invited to blow Stockholm to the ground and recreate it using Micrsoft’s popular Minecraft.
AMF Fastightener and Microsoft have partnered to launch the construction for its 130,000sqm Urban Escape Stockholm regeneration using PC game Minecraft for a building tool.
The ten year old students used virtual TNT to bring the city block to the ground and build it back up from scratch. It is the first time a property development project has been launched simultaneously in reality and a virtual world together.
The school children were from Loviselund School in Hasselby, Stockholm. They were given the challenge to build a city block in the Stockholm city centre using their own interpretations on how it should look.
You will be able to find tower blocks, offices, aquariums and even a shopping centre in the finished piece.
AMF Fastightener will be using the children’s designs to gain inspiration for Stockholm’s first public rooftop garden as well as other final delivery sections.
Karolin Forsling, Chief Development Officer at AMF Fastigheter said: “We believe in collaboration in the creative process, and as developers of urban spaces we want to engage with Stockholm’s ‘future talents’, the people who will live, work and play in this city. By partnering with Minecraft, we are giving young people a chance to shape one of Europe’s fastest growing cities and we’re inspired by how they have challenged convention and sparked new ideas.”
The new idea of using children to design real life projects in construction games like Minecraft to give the students opportunities to develop new skills such as being creative while problem solving.
Joke Palmkvist comments; “Minecraft is a natural bridge to working with coding in the classroom, which is a prerequisite for students to understand the digital world. Any of these students could be one of the creators of the next Minecraft, Snapchat or Spotify.”
