The Białowieża Forest in Minecraft

by | Jun 27, 2017 | News

The Bialowieza Forest in Poland is one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe, that covers an area of around 3000 km2 on both sides of the border between Belarus and Poland. To raise awareness of the forest, and to help protect it from excessive logging,...

GeoBoxers on co-creation and urban planning in Minecraft

by | Sep 2, 2016 | News

Nynne has given GeoBoxers’ take on augmented reality and co-creation in urban planning in the September issue of the Danish magazine for geospatial sciences and applications GEOFORUM (page 12-13). The article is in Danish and in a paper-ish format, so it cannot...
Stavanger in Minecraft

Stavanger in Minecraft

by | Aug 30, 2016 | News

The municipality of Stavanger in Norway has just received a hyper detailed model of their city in Minecraft. The model will be used to involve children and young people in the future design of the city. City of Stavanger, Norway – compiled in Minecraft by...

Urban planning in Education using Geodata in Minecraft

by | Nov 28, 2014 | News

Over the last six weeks, the municipality of Albertslund in Denmark has developed a prototype of an educational design in urban planning. This was done in collaboration with The Gameworkshop, using Minecraft with real geodata as a platform. The data used are from the...