Projects
Minestory
académie de Dijon – Julien Crémoux
School – Heritage Sites
Since 2019, more than 600 primary school students from 30 classes in 3 different countries have replicated heritage sites (like Notre-Dame de Paris, the medieval Louvre castle or the Besançon citadel), placed them on an interactive timeline and gave tours and presentations in the virtual world.
Minetest Classroom
University of British Columbia – Paul Pickell
University – Digital Twin
A project funded by the University of British Columbia around the use of Minetest as a learning tool and for the production of digital twins of natural and human built environments. It has been used to organize virtual field trips in the context of Covid 19.
Permis de déconstruire
Praticable
School – Artistic Residency
Between November 2021 and June 2022, secondary school students from Aulney-sous-Bois in France have reinvented their neighborhood with Minetest. This project, coordinated by the IRI foundation and the teachers, allowed the students to explore the digital practice of cooperative and contributive construction. The projects created emphasized well-being and the neighborhood’s conviviality.
UNEJ
Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation
School – Urban Planning
The UNEJ project (Urbanités Numériques En Jeux) is a 4 years project where teachers and students discover about urban planning while building concrete proposals for their neighborhood’s development with the help of professionals from the sector. It is done in connection with the urban transformations carried out for the 2024 Olympics.
Maubeuge en Cubes
Thomate & Lemente
Citizen Participation
A Workshop for the city of Maubeuge in France where groups of young citizens between 10 and 16 years old shared ideas to improve their neighborhood. They then built them in an in-game map of their city, allowing urban planners to see what young people wanted for their local area and discuss current issues with them.
Pirate Cove
Monique Franzsen
School – ICT – Research
A 9 week project with two classes of Grade 3 students. Aside from learning how to play the game together and various ICT skills (screenshots, image manipulation and importing), I wanted my students to research, plan and design their building project and reflect on the process.