Habitat III – panel about Minecraft in urban planning

by | Oct 19, 2016 | News

Once every 20 years, United Nations host a Habitat conference. Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 – 20 October 2016. With focus areas like sustainability, safety,...

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...

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...

Vibcraft – Viborg in Minecraft

by | Oct 2, 2014 | News

Vibcraft is now real, live and ready to be used in tourism, urban planning, education and for fun! The whole municipality of Viborg in Denmark has been launched in Minecraft. On a basis of open basic data like terrain models and topography, Vibcraft includes real...