Local authorities have been ‘amazed to see that young women from slums could design as architects or urban planners’, according to the co-ordinator of a United Nations initiative using the video game Minecraft to get communities designing their own public spaces. The Block by Block project is the work of UN-Habitat – the United Nations agency for sustainable urban development – together with the makers of the hugely popular world-building computer game Minecraft, Mojang. Since 2012,
Video game used to design public space in more than 25 developing countries
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