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Organising a large-scale collaborative modelling day in Luanti

At the end of the second year of Urbanités Numériques En Jeux, we brought together at the Archives nationales, in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, a hundred 12- and 13-year-old pupils from five schools in Seine-Saint-Denis. They had one day to imagine together a water village on the Seine, on a Luanti server we had prepared to host all the teams at the same time.

In the workshops, this work takes several months. Here, each class built its part while watching the others take shape. The resulting village is presented in the exhibition devoted to the project.

An architect and a pupil, seen from behind, watch a large screen showing the water village being built

The event

An urban planner specialised in water and a local councillor from L'Île-Saint-Denis, herself a boatwoman, opened the morning on life along the Seine. The river and its banks had been divided into five basins, one per class. Each team worked with its teachers and an architect from LAO SCOP or O'zone Architectures. After a midday review, the teams finished their buildings and presented them to a jury. All day long, a large screen showed the village being built.

Pupils queue in front of a table with the blue T-shirts of the day
About a hundred pupils in blue T-shirts work on computers in a large room
An architect leans towards two pupils to help them model on their computer
A pupil raises her hand while an architect presents a plan on a flipchart
A facilitator in a blue T-shirt hands out instructions in front of two screens showing the village
A pupil's hand sketches a proposal in her notebook
Pupils in blue T-shirts, booklet in hand, wait to go on stage
A team presents its part of the village on the auditorium stage, its basin projected on the big screen
A team's spokespeople read their presentation, booklet in hand, in front of the jury
The other teams watch the presentations from the auditorium seats

A modelling booklet

So that a hundred pupils could build in the same place, each team received a booklet. It gives everyone a role, ecologist, hydrologist, resident, fisher, boater or athlete, with what they stand for. A proposal had to take all the roles of the team into account. The booklet also lists the materials, from permeable ground to eco-friendly buildings, with the matching block in the game, and describes the constraints of each basin.

Three pages of the booklet (in French). The resident and fisher profiles, with what each stands for. The materials for eco-friendly buildings, timber frames, straw, raw earth and reused brick, with their blocks in the game. The sheet for basin no. 1, designing natural and inhabited banks.
The Water Village modelling booklet (in French) The programme of the day, the player profiles, the materials and the game basins.