PowerPoint Presentation
As a means to create Smart Citiesgetting the people of the place
involved- youth included-
Paper to be presented at The Science of the CityNapels 20-23
March 2016Henk J. ScholtenSpinlab/Geodan
Inspiration
BLOCK by BLOCKMovie
Goal:How to make our own canvas: based on the real world?
The Geocraft RecipeTM
Grass
Road
Water
+
+=
Actually pretty hard!So
we decided to do it for the whole of NL
Some numbers:286 502 MC Tiles = 1,7 Terabytes143 672 empty142
830 with data
12.18 sec for 1 MC tile on one core (high performance)1 year and
11 months using one core.
Using 240 cores = 2 days and 21 hours
The whole of the Netherlands available in MC!
15
www.GeoCraft.nl since 3 October 2015
Management:
Minecraft King at the GeoFort12 Province Commissaries400 City
Mayors
But
Why?
Citizen Spatial planning
Ideas? How building went? Collaboration?The dreams
translated
Via a planning professionalTHE design
Presenting the professional design back
In the endSocial research!
Next stepsMeeting the neighborsPresent to the Municipality
http://www.buurtcraft.nl/ijburg/
NextEducation projects
Next: Impact analysis and feedback loops
Image Source: NASA
The whole of Naples in Minecraft: Education Spatial thinking
Spatial planning workshops 3D Design
Discussion pointsWhy are 70 million children (around the world)
playing Minecraft?
How can we leverage their motivation and creativity?
Is this the new GIS for the new Generation?
A new way of Teaching: Geography, History, Physics and Spatial
Thinking?
The role of Gamification in Regional Science?
Partners
Thank you!
