Our research uses Minecraft as a thinkertoy: “a computer display system that helps you envision complex alternatives” (Ted Nelson)
What’s New?
SunBlock One
SunBlock is a solar powered modded Minecraft server with custom mods that give access to real time data about the energy production and consumption of the system as a condition of possibility for playing the game. Rather than just playing a game with a message around energy transition, we are endeavoring to provide a direct, tangible and playable experience of the energy infrastructures which make that experience possible.
LEARN MOREThe Fun Palace SMP
On October 13th, 2023, the Minecraft Bloc research group at the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) lab brought the avant-garde 1964 “Fun Palace” by Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and contributors into the world of MINECRAFT!
Latest Musings
Ecogaming – By Daniella Odubayo
Week 1-2: Eco Ego & Early Childhood Education The initial angle I considered with video games and their intersection with eco consciousness was early childhood exposure to both. Using my[…]
Read more‘Atlantis Transcends’, My Educational Minecraft Experience – by Laura Stusel
Originally published April 20, 2014 The summer is coming and I am drinking in the sweet success of having finished my undergraduate. After four years of attending lecture after lecture,[…]
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Smithed Summit 2024 (by Quinn Saggio)
What is the Smithed Summit? Last week from November 2nd to November 9th, I attended the Smithed Summit with very little knowledge of what it was about, and I was[…]
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