{"id":310,"date":"2026-02-05T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/?p=310"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:44:16","slug":"publication-engaging-youth-in-urban-planning-discussions-using-minecraft-challenges-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/project\/publication-engaging-youth-in-urban-planning-discussions-using-minecraft-challenges-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication: Engaging Youth in Urban Planning Discussions Using Minecraft: Challenges and Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Petri Lankoski, Sofia Lundmark and Romina Rodela<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full text availalable at <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17083\/v673dj03\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17083\/v673dj03<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This study explores the potential of <em>Minecraft <\/em>as a game-based platform to engage youth, and particularly NEET youth, in urban planning discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methodology: An exploratory qualitative case study was done in collaboration with a Swedish municipality, using observations of modded Minecraft play sessions, interviews, and ethnographic data from an internship program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Findings: Our data collection led us to identify four themes: (i) <em>Minecraft Enables<\/em>, the game supports visualization of planning ideas; (Ii) <em>Minecraft Skills Enable<\/em>, familiarity with the game facilitates participation; (iii) <em>Preferences and Norms<\/em>, personal ideals shape design choices; and (iv) <em>Understanding Needs<\/em>, limited awareness of urban functions constrains meaningful engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originality: Unlike prior studies focusing on children or general youth, this research examines NEET youth as a hard-to-reach group and positions <em>Minecraft <\/em>as a boundary object for participatory planning rather than a formal planning tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contribution: This study contributes insight into the use of <em>Minecraft <\/em>in participatory planning with NEET youth, a rarely studied group in serious games literature and game-based approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petri Lankoski, Sofia Lundmark and Romina Rodela Full text availalable at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17083\/v673dj03 Abstract This study explores the potential of Minecraft as a game-based platform to engage youth, and particularly NEET youth, in urban planning discussions. Methodology: An exploratory qualitative case study was done in collaboration with a Swedish municipality, using observations of modded Minecraft play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,7],"tags":[23,25,27,26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogg.sh.se\/game_research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}