MELBOURNE CITY DESIGN CHALLENGES
THREE NEW STUDENT DESIGN CHALLENGES FROM DATTA VIC FOR DESIGN & TECHNOLOGIES WEEK 2023
Welcome to Melbourne Minecraft City Challenges. The purpose of these resources is to provide an immersive and engaging design experience for your students that links directly to the requirements of the Design and Technologies learning area, as well as providing everything you need to facilitate a student-centred approach.
Through these resources, your students can engage - individually or collaboratively - in tackling some of the biggest issues of our time: food and energy security, sustainability and health & wellbeing. These all link to the current United Nations: Sustainable Development Goals and also introduce the concept of Solarpunk, which can help to facilitate their approaches to designing and building preferred futures for the city of Melbourne.
Click on the links below to download each resource, and get designing with your students!
| TEACHER NOTES Download the Teacher Notes for information on how to get started with these challenges. |
| ENERGISE MELBOURNE As cities rapidly increase in population we need to plan for new and more sustainable ways of living. One key issue that we need to solve is sustainable energy production due to issues around the continued use of fossil fuels. You can design Melbourne for a more sustainable future by creating new systems, structures and technologies that will help to achieve this goal. |
| GROW MELBOURNE As cities rapidly increase in population we need to plan for new and more sustainable ways of living. One key issue that we need to solve is food security, by reducing factors like food miles and other environmental threats. Design Melbourne for a more sustainable future by creating new systems, structures and technologies that will help to achieve this goal. |
| HEALTHY MELBOURNE As cities rapidly increase in population, we need to plan for new ways to ensure healthier and happier lives for the people who live in them. One key issue that we need to solve is reducing mental and psychical health issues associated with modern life and work. Design Melbourne for a more sustainable future by creating new spaces, structures and technologies that will help to achieve this goal. |
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If this gets you inspired to use Minecraft as a design tool, check out the STATION IDEATION challenge from 2022. The competition might be over, but all the resources are still available for you to use with your classes.
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