What if Minecraft was more than just a game?

What if it was present in classrooms and helped us learn about our city?

​More than a game, an educational tool!

Microsoft's Minecraft Education is an educational version of the well-known Minecraft game. It explores new ways of learning, promoting creativity, collaboration and problem solving in an immersive digital environment.

Future Heritage!

If MI is the initials of Minecraft, MOMO stands for MOvimento MOdernista (modernist movement). Faro stands out as a city of modernist architecture in Southern Europe. It has around 500 buildings of a singular style, as it is strongly adapted to the Algarve climate.

Faro, a Minecraft World!

This is the ambition of this project:

- To make Faro an example of new pedagogical approaches in the field of Cultural Heritage;
- Create a digital memory for the younger generations of the Modernist Movement in Faro but also in the Algarve.

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MINECRAFT AND MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE IN FARO

MI.MOMO.FARO is an educational project. It aims to reproduce modernist architecture buildings from the municipality of Faro on the Minecraft Education platform by 3rd cycle school students. 
With this project we want to involve students, teachers, architects and other experts in modernist architecture, as well as the residents of the buildings to be reproduced.

MI.MOMO.FARO is in the spirit of the Faro Convention, the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society.It underlines the importance of cultural heritage as an integral part of Human Rights and Democracy. It promotes a broad, interdisciplinary understanding of this concept and its relationship with society by establishing rights and responsibilities towards it. It focuses on promoting sustainability, access and the use of digital technology in the heritage context.

GOALS
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Contribute to the enhancement of the cultural heritage of the municipality

Enhancing heritage education through the use of digital skills

Empowering students, teachers and schools through contact with new learning dynamics (game based learning)

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Foster collaborative work between teachers and students;

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To raise awareness of the importance of communication skills, creativity, curiosity, and complex problem solving through the pedagogical approach of project based learning

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​Encouraging ownership of a European identity and a sense of belonging to the European area

To provide for integration and participation in communities of
educational communities of practice at the European level