Bjarke Ingels: Architecture should be more like Minecraft

today people flock towards immersive

worlds in the virtual realm

more than 100 million people populate

minecraft where they can build their own

worlds and inhabit them through play

the real world predecessor for minecraft

lego has become the greatest toy company

in the world with a population of

mini-figs of 3.7 billion the largest

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More people, increasingly dissatisfied by these corporate offerings, are compelled into creating their own virtual worlds. The future of the internet, as some have theorized, might consist of micro-communities, enclosed worlds with fewer but more engaged members. Through video games like Minecraft and collaborative worldbuilding projects, which are... See more

Building something new would be “a worldmaking project, aimed at building and rebuilding actual structures of social connection and movement, rather than the mere critique of ones we already have.” In other words, we can’t just rearrange the furniture inside rooms we don’t like the shape of; we have to build entirely new rooms in better shapes.