17 Goals. 1 School. And Minecraft.
is a project by the students of Presentation College Bray. As part of a whole-school initiative they collaboratively built a scaled Minecraft model of their school building. They manipulated this base model to design a more sustainable school, based on the UN Sustainable Development goals.
See video link here:
Achievements:
Winners ‘Most Innovative Award’ ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2018, they have presented their ideas to the Environmental Protection Agency and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and were a finalist in the Global UN SDG Action Awards 2018. Their work is architectural, spatial and visionary with regard to sustainability and the innovative use of Minecraft as a design tool.
Later, a group of transition year students relooked at the original base model of the school and redesigned areas of the building based on group discussions during the Architects in Schools Initiative.
Screening: Two short Minecraft videos (3 min & 9 min), followed by
Q&A / Discussion
