SECOND EDITION OF MI.MOMO.FARO: Project that brought Minecraft to classrooms now reaches more students

After the success of the first edition, Faro's candidacy for European Capital of Culture will take MI.MOMO.FARO to more schools and more students, in the Algarve region and abroad.
In addition to Faro, around a thousand students from Olhão, Loulé and Albufeira are participating in the second edition of this heritage education project. Mozambique and Lithuania also join MI.MOMO.FARO, marking the internationalization of an initiative whose merit has been widely recognized and which has been present at major events, such as Built with Bits: Designing Virtual Spaces for the Future (organized by Europeana Pro , within the scope of the New European Bauhaus), Challenges 2021 and “Digital Challenges”: XII International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education.

​Developed with the support of Microsoft, the National Arts Plan and the Algarve Regional Directorate of Culture, Europeana Educação, Museo Zer0 and the Ria Formosa Training Center, MI.MOMO.FARO is a project aimed at 3rd cycle students who want to to disseminate the built cultural heritage through the reproduction of modernist architecture buildings on the Minecraft Education digital platform, in the context of the classroom. Applying the potential of new digital tools to teaching and learning, this project has the participation of dozens of professionals, including teachers, architects and municipal technicians.

Além da componente educativa, o MI.MOMO.FARO tem a ambição de chegar a toda a comunidade, com a discussão pública das grandes temáticas da candidatura de Faro a Capital Europeia da Cultura 2027, designadamente, a cidade na era digital, a requalificação urbana e o património cultural edificado enquanto legado para as gerações futuras.

Review the work developed in the first edition HERE