Lego - The Building Blocks of Architecture

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:00:00. > :00:11.There are 86 pieces of Lego for every person on the planet. Somehow

:00:12. > :00:17.a tiny plastic brick has become part of all our childhoods. It's the

:00:18. > :00:22.ultimate toy, isn't it? Because it doesn't have any rules. What Lego

:00:23. > :00:26.allows you to do is dip into a big bucket of mess and pull out these

:00:27. > :00:32.bricks and slowly make something which is uniquely yours. Made a

:00:33. > :00:38.police station. It's a house on wheels. It's good! With wings. We

:00:39. > :00:44.spend nearly ?3 billion a year on Lego and now it's expanding its

:00:45. > :00:48.empire into Hollywood. Good morning apartment, ready to start the day...

:00:49. > :00:55.Always be sure to keep the soap out of your... Lego might be an enormous

:00:56. > :00:58.brand, but it has a strong relationship with the real buildings

:00:59. > :01:03.around us. It is, after all, a brick. What actually goes on when

:01:04. > :01:07.you play with Lego? You take a spatial unit and you add it to

:01:08. > :01:13.another and there's a bigger space being built. You remember how you

:01:14. > :01:19.did it. And you remember how that brick felt on your finger. Toys like

:01:20. > :01:23.Lego help us play at being architects. Most of us lose that

:01:24. > :01:27.ability. But some people keep it and they haven't stopped building. I

:01:28. > :01:31.wouldn't be able to imagine my childhood without Lego. The toys

:01:32. > :01:34.they played with as children have helped inspire some of the most

:01:35. > :01:38.important buildings of our time. Lego is not just a kids' toy.

:01:39. > :01:43.There's a direct connection between Lego and the real world, the

:01:44. > :01:44.buildings we create all around us. I think that Lego has changed the way

:01:45. > :02:04.we think about architecture. Lego can transport you anywhere your

:02:05. > :02:10.imagination can take you. So, I've come to Billund in Denmark,

:02:11. > :02:15.population 6,000, it's home to Legoland, Denmark's largest tourist

:02:16. > :02:21.attraction outside Copenhagen. The only problem is, it's closed in

:02:22. > :02:33.winter. But I'm here to see something much more exciting.

:02:34. > :02:39.I have played with Lego since I was two or three years old. It's a

:02:40. > :02:45.complete dream come true to come to a Lego factory. In 2019 there will

:02:46. > :02:50.be more mini figures in the world than there actually are people.

:02:51. > :02:59.You're joking? No, I'm not. It's like a maternity ward. Yeah! Lego

:03:00. > :03:06.produces 45 billion pieces a year, that's 1450 every second. I might

:03:07. > :03:11.stick to architecture. Through Lego, we realise robots and Star Wars,

:03:12. > :03:17.spaceships and helicopters. At the root of all these creations is a

:03:18. > :03:24.simple brick. That's no accident. Lego's beginnings are steeped in

:03:25. > :03:35.building. The story of Lego begins here at this house in Billund, built

:03:36. > :03:38.in 1924. It was the creation a local carpenter called Ole Kirk

:03:39. > :03:42.Christiansen, who from humble beginnings would establish the

:03:43. > :03:46.mighty lowingo empire. -- Lego empire. He loved to play. You could

:03:47. > :03:51.walk by outside and you would probably get a bucket of water on

:03:52. > :03:55.your head. That was how he was. He was really, really a great man. He

:03:56. > :04:00.loved children. In England we say we have a big character, a really big

:04:01. > :04:05.character. Yeah. A few years later. He's plumper. Yeah u, he is. --

:04:06. > :04:12.Yeah, he is. Married, three kids, wife, doing well for himself. Yes.

:04:13. > :04:17.He was the carpenter of choice here, crafting barns and furniture for the

:04:18. > :04:21.farming community. His lofty ambition didn't stop at wood. It

:04:22. > :04:25.included the brick. These are some of the buildings he make. This is a

:04:26. > :04:30.farm. This is from 1921. We're talking real buildings. Real

:04:31. > :04:35.buildings, yeah. That's amazing to see them. That's where it all began.

:04:36. > :04:39.Everything was looking great, probably have ended up being a

:04:40. > :04:49.carpenter for the rest of life, but then things started going not so

:04:50. > :04:55.well. In 1932, tragedy struck. Ole's wife died in child birth, leaving

:04:56. > :04:59.him as a widower with four children. When the Great Depression spread

:05:00. > :05:05.across Europe, Ole and his neighbours faced ruin. 1932 there

:05:06. > :05:08.was a crisis, there was no income. He couldn't get the money the

:05:09. > :05:14.farmers owed him because they had none. The farmers no longer wanted

:05:15. > :05:20.barns or houses, so he decided to make goods he could afford. These

:05:21. > :05:25.are the kind of toys he was making. They're quite... Robust. Es! I like

:05:26. > :05:28.the eyes at the front. These are some of the first ones. He was

:05:29. > :05:39.pretty much experimenting at that time, trying something new. In 1934,

:05:40. > :05:48.Ole named his business Lego after the Danish loget -- legot, to play

:05:49. > :05:51.well. His brother didn't like it. They didn't think it was a serious

:05:52. > :06:03.business with a future, but they were wrong! You could say.

:06:04. > :06:08.From the 1930s, toys were becoming serious business. Prewar a lot of

:06:09. > :06:11.the most influential philosophers and early years educators had come

:06:12. > :06:15.to the conclusion that children learn through play, they learn

:06:16. > :06:22.through their hands and the hand is an extension of the brain. The idea

:06:23. > :06:27.of play and developing toys, which encouraged a certain kind of good

:06:28. > :06:28.play,if you like, learning through play, became very much the currency

:06:29. > :06:45.of the age. During the Nazi occupation of

:06:46. > :06:50.Denmark, anxious parents bought the wooden toys to cheer up their

:06:51. > :06:59.children. Wood was needed for fuel, when Denmark was running out. So in

:07:00. > :07:03.1946, Ole bought a new bit of kit, a plastic moulding machine. You push

:07:04. > :07:08.that, really hard. You just keep it there. This would have been

:07:09. > :07:12.cutting-edge technology in 1946. Yeah, it was. He started off making

:07:13. > :07:17.toy teddy bears, but he knew the machine could do more.

:07:18. > :07:25.# Little boxes on the hillside... # Ole and his team spent a decade

:07:26. > :07:28.researching, developing and developing plastic toys. The brick

:07:29. > :07:39.they created chimed powerfully with the new mood of the age. In the

:07:40. > :07:41.aftermath of World War II, the thinkers of Europe were on a quest

:07:42. > :07:50.to rebuild their shattered communities. The figure of the child

:07:51. > :07:54.was key. So many toys are about destruction and Lego is about

:07:55. > :08:00.construction. It seems to be about learning how to be a good person by

:08:01. > :08:06.building, by creating a better world. I love that idea. The 1950s

:08:07. > :08:09.when cities all over Europe were rebuilding themselves and town

:08:10. > :08:11.planning was a big subject, I love the fact that Lego, the first thing

:08:12. > :08:25.it does is a town plan. We needed engineers. We needed

:08:26. > :08:29.architects. How do you get engineers and architects? Well you show them

:08:30. > :08:34.buildings and you encourage them to construct those buildings with

:08:35. > :08:40.building blocks. There's a long tradition of architects seeking out

:08:41. > :08:46.construction toys as children. In the 1870s a young boy called Francis

:08:47. > :08:51.played with these blocks. This early play sparks a passion for structure,

:08:52. > :08:58.space and form and was a powerful outlet for creative exploration.

:08:59. > :09:02.That boy grew up to build buildings like these, the great American ark

:09:03. > :09:07.tech Frank Lloyd Wright blew away Victorian, stuffy conventional

:09:08. > :09:13.architecture with his asymmetric compositions, which he said were

:09:14. > :09:18.heavily influenced by Frobels blocks, he continued to use the

:09:19. > :09:23.blocks when a grown-up architect. Alone, the blocks inspired Le

:09:24. > :09:33.Corbusier and Walter Gropius, the founders of modernism. The

:09:34. > :09:38.architecture they pioneered in the 1920s was stripped down and

:09:39. > :09:43.unadorned but full of idealistic intention. They believed in an equal

:09:44. > :09:47.and humane society with affordable, well-designed housing for all. And

:09:48. > :09:52.the post-war years gave them and their followers the chance to

:09:53. > :09:59.realise their dream through a radical innovation. The prefab.

:10:00. > :10:04.Flat-pack or system-built housing, produced a factory, and assembled on

:10:05. > :10:10.site was a low-cost vision of utopia. By the 1970s, these

:10:11. > :10:14.ubiquitous, often austere towers were proving unpopular. People were

:10:15. > :10:19.desperate for fresh ideas. You could see in the centre of every city,

:10:20. > :10:26.there were glass blocks, the boring box was a phrase. It failed in terms

:10:27. > :10:31.of taste because it didn't have enough variety. Two schools of

:10:32. > :10:34.architecture emerged that challenged the post-war earnest, modernist

:10:35. > :10:38.blocks, one was embodied by Lego, the other by the other great

:10:39. > :10:43.construction toy of the Twentieth Century, Meccano.

:10:44. > :10:49.Mechanics made easy, Meccano in the 60s was Britain's most popular

:10:50. > :10:53.construction toy. Lego's popularity was growing, but it couldn't yet

:10:54. > :11:00.match Meccano's might. Children everywhere saved up their pocket

:11:01. > :11:04.money to buy it. I fell to it like a duck to water. One of the reasons I

:11:05. > :11:07.became an architect, I'm sure, because I had spent a lot of time

:11:08. > :11:10.playing with something which you could physically create things with.

:11:11. > :11:14.My partner, Richard Rogers played Meccano as a child. The processes

:11:15. > :11:22.which Meccano illustrated at the time are still endemic in our

:11:23. > :11:28.building. Through the spirit of Meccano, ark tech -- architects

:11:29. > :11:33.brought something everyone else wanted buried a prefab. Like the

:11:34. > :11:42.modernist blocks of the 50s, these buildings were made in a factory.

:11:43. > :11:46.Pop p due -- Pompey due is the classic -- Pompidou is the classic

:11:47. > :11:50.example. It's essentially a giant Meccano. Quick to build and

:11:51. > :11:54.assemble, like Pompidou, the Lloyds building was produced in a factory

:11:55. > :11:58.and brought to site on the back of a lorry. When I was a kid, this was

:11:59. > :12:02.the building that really turned me on to architecture. I'd never seen

:12:03. > :12:07.anything like it. Britain had never seen anything like it. Just look at

:12:08. > :12:10.it. This is architecture made through science and engineering and

:12:11. > :12:19.rather than hide that away, Richard Rogers celebrated it, putting the

:12:20. > :12:24.surfaces on the outside. The result is a building that's in the high

:12:25. > :12:29.pressure heart of the City, but doesn't feel that way. Inside, you

:12:30. > :12:33.get this incredible sense of space. These vast open floors, which in the

:12:34. > :12:39.mid-80s were incredibly modern, radical in a stuffy old world of the

:12:40. > :12:44.City. They call this architecture hi-tech, engineering embodied in the

:12:45. > :12:49.architecture and infused with the spirit of Meccano. Meccano is a

:12:50. > :12:52.technological toy. In that sense, the thing that's interesting about

:12:53. > :12:55.Meccano and about a lot of the architecture of what's called

:12:56. > :13:00.hi-tech is it's actually understandable. You can understand

:13:01. > :13:07.how it's made. There's no mystery. That's the aesthetic of the

:13:08. > :13:11.building. By 1978, the year the Lloyds building was commissioned,

:13:12. > :13:18.Meccano was no longer the world's most popular construction toy. Lego

:13:19. > :13:21.was simpler, safer and appealed to much younger children and those who

:13:22. > :13:27.weren't very good with a spanner, like me. That very same year, a new

:13:28. > :13:32.school of architecture began to emerge. It had a strong sense of the

:13:33. > :13:38.building block, but not the bare concrete slabs of the 60s. These new

:13:39. > :13:45.buildings were fun. People were looking for a more playable --

:13:46. > :13:50.playful, accessible architecture. Post modernist brought back colour

:13:51. > :13:54.and metaphor. They may not have intentionally made their buildings

:13:55. > :13:57.look like Lego, but they were doing the same thing, reducing buildings

:13:58. > :14:02.to a language that everyone can understand, circles, cylinders,

:14:03. > :14:08.squares and triangles and creating great architecture from it. Number 1

:14:09. > :14:12.Poultry was created by one of the key figures in post modern

:14:13. > :14:15.architecture, James Stirling. Jim was always, he wanted to be

:14:16. > :14:18.different. If the world had caught up to him, he would go on somewhere

:14:19. > :14:24.else. He must have thought about Lego, when he was building, because

:14:25. > :14:32.they're put together like toy blocks. They're very volume-metric.

:14:33. > :14:38.He was a classicist and a Legocist if you like. By the time Stirling's

:14:39. > :14:45.Number 1 Poultry was completed in 1997, post modernism was a dirty

:14:46. > :14:48.word. Too many bad post modern buildings were run up quickly. It

:14:49. > :14:55.suffered because things are copied to death and ripped off and

:14:56. > :15:02.prostituted and watered down. Post modernism went down. Although post

:15:03. > :15:05.modernism fell from favour, Lego's influence on architecture remained.

:15:06. > :15:11.In the 70s, as plastic bricks dominated the world's playrooms and

:15:12. > :15:21.toy shops, a new breed of architects was born. Its Rising Star has

:15:22. > :15:27.started to build. Isn't that great, that sound. Fantastic. A pile of

:15:28. > :15:33.potential. Exactly! At 39 years old, Bjarke Ingels is the leading

:15:34. > :15:38.architect of his generation and a huge lowingo fan. -- Lego fan. I

:15:39. > :15:42.wouldn't be able to imagine my childhood without Lego. What would

:15:43. > :15:49.you build, when you were a kid? It was very much these James Bond

:15:50. > :15:55.villain's lairs. Secret revolving doors or sliding walls. I was into

:15:56. > :15:58.the idea that the architecture could contain unseen possibilities, things

:15:59. > :16:05.seem to be a certain way, but then they could actually do so much more.

:16:06. > :16:11.Bjork's childhood vision has influenced his architecture today.

:16:12. > :16:16.Where others see problems, he sees potential. He's won prestigious

:16:17. > :16:26.commissions all over the world. He's construct being a waste incinerator

:16:27. > :16:29.that powers a ski slope. Designed in entirely carbon neutral island in

:16:30. > :16:34.the Caspian Sea and he will soon turn a pile of bricks into the Lego

:16:35. > :16:39.House, the corporations new museum and HQ in Billund. It's his dream

:16:40. > :16:47.commission and it might inspire generations of children to see Lego

:16:48. > :16:54.as more than a toy. Lego is really like the most blatant way to turn an

:16:55. > :16:58.idea into action. You don't need tools or knives, even glue. It's a

:16:59. > :17:03.bit like grabbing a pencil and just drawing away on paper. Immediate,

:17:04. > :17:07.you've got it. It's a three dimensional sketch tool. He used

:17:08. > :17:12.this tool to find a modern solution to a familiar problem. How to make

:17:13. > :17:19.imaginative buildings from prefab blocks. Our labour wages are so high

:17:20. > :17:22.and our weather is so wet, you actually want to minimise the time

:17:23. > :17:27.spent on the construction site. You want to arrive with a lot of

:17:28. > :17:31.preassembled elements and put them together quickly. In effect, over

:17:32. > :17:39.the last 60 years Denmark has become a cub trip entirely -- country

:17:40. > :17:43.entirely built out of Lego, or at least prefabricated MoD udges. If

:17:44. > :17:47.people are -- modules, if people are all different, why do suddenly all

:17:48. > :17:53.buildings look the same? Den marks towers of today provoke boredom. But

:17:54. > :18:00.the towers from the past inspire wonder. He was determined to create

:18:01. > :18:05.a tower block every bit as fantastical, creative and fun. Could

:18:06. > :18:09.he build with the restrictions of Danish construction, using prefab

:18:10. > :18:16.blocks that all look the same? He turned to the bricks of his

:18:17. > :18:21.childhood to propose an idea of the modern high rise that is as

:18:22. > :18:25.inventive as radical. These are conceived as individual Lego blocks.

:18:26. > :18:29.You preassemble everything at home and put the blocks together when you

:18:30. > :18:33.arrive at the site. From a factory-made kit of identical moth

:18:34. > :18:38.you'ds he has created not -- modules, he has created a lush,

:18:39. > :18:43.man-made landscape of valleys and mountains. It's a crazy project. A

:18:44. > :18:48.lot of architects can be serious and that's why they build serious boxes.

:18:49. > :18:54.Did it inspire people? It really made people look at architecture in

:18:55. > :18:59.a completely different way. In architecture, when you have a chance

:19:00. > :19:03.to intervene, you should try to realise the city you dream about

:19:04. > :19:07.living in. It doesn't have to be like it is. Our cities are only the

:19:08. > :19:10.way they are because that's how far we've gotten. That's what Lego

:19:11. > :19:15.enables anyone to do, just to put together, in a very simple way, a

:19:16. > :19:25.lot of almost identical bricks to create what a city can be and what a

:19:26. > :19:30.city should be. Your own city might not be that great, but on the living

:19:31. > :19:33.room floor, you can re-arrange things and make the world as it

:19:34. > :19:37.should be. I think the important thing behind Lego is that it's a

:19:38. > :19:44.better world, that it's a chance to improve on the world as it is now.

:19:45. > :19:47.So it's a chance to be idealistic. Utopian ideals, child-like dreams of

:19:48. > :19:52.the future, through the innocence of play, we tap into our visions of

:19:53. > :19:58.remaking the world anew. For the artist, Olafur Eliasson, play is

:19:59. > :20:03.full of powerful possibility. What actually goes on when you play with

:20:04. > :20:10.Lego? It's a very interesting thing. You take a spatial unit and then you

:20:11. > :20:15.compose it, almost like a score, you compose it together and you add it

:20:16. > :20:24.to another and there's a bigger space being built. You're not a

:20:25. > :20:29.consumer, you're a producer. Olafur Eliasson turns a public into

:20:30. > :20:34.protagonist of a collective work of art. At the Weather Project at

:20:35. > :20:42.Tate's Turbine Hall onlookers became part of his giant insulation. --

:20:43. > :20:45.installation. In 2005, he travelled to Albania and used play to bring

:20:46. > :20:51.people together as they built a new city from scratch. After 50 years of

:20:52. > :20:58.Communism, the transition from dictatorship to democracy looked

:20:59. > :21:02.uncertain. For the collectivity project, Eliasson took three tons of

:21:03. > :21:10.white Lego and dumped them in the town square of Tirana, Albania's

:21:11. > :21:14.capital city. I thought of this table experiment as a way of

:21:15. > :21:19.creating a little Parliament, where people on the street would negotiate

:21:20. > :21:26.with each other. In Albania the idea of open political debate was new and

:21:27. > :21:30.so was Lego. Lego had not had a life in Albania. For a lot of people it

:21:31. > :21:35.was like, wow, look at this. Isn't this plastic interesting. What is it

:21:36. > :21:40.called? And what does it do? People were invited to rebuild Tirana with

:21:41. > :21:44.Lego. What does it mean to share space? What does it mean to

:21:45. > :21:48.coproduce space? Suddenly you're next to somebody you might not know,

:21:49. > :21:53.then you see that person is building something and can I add something to

:21:54. > :22:01.that? Or can I put something next to it? Are we building a city together.

:22:02. > :22:04.To Olafur this city had radical potential. I think it added elements

:22:05. > :22:08.to a discussion which was already going on. And trying to develop a

:22:09. > :22:15.set of values, which would reflect where the country was going. The

:22:16. > :22:20.fact that you can look upon your own city, in which you are, as a model,

:22:21. > :22:26.if you start to look at reality as a model, it is much more likely to be

:22:27. > :22:31.negotiable. If it's negotiable, it can change. To Olafur, Lego is a

:22:32. > :22:35.blank canvas of simple, white bricks. For most of us, there's a

:22:36. > :22:39.lot more on offer, even a controversial pink-coloured range,

:22:40. > :22:45.especially for girls. The Lego of today is available in 9,000

:22:46. > :22:49.different colours, shapes and sizes. It's quite incredible. Look at that,

:22:50. > :22:55.bags within bags, with these incredibly, complicated little rings

:22:56. > :23:00.and God only knows what that is, a little whip on something. It started

:23:01. > :23:04.as simple bricks and you can still get these simple bricks, but it's

:23:05. > :23:10.become less like this creative freedom and more like a jigsaw

:23:11. > :23:15.puzzle. Do you know what fills my heart with fear? That! Look at that.

:23:16. > :23:18.When I was a kid you had a limited range of options, you had to use

:23:19. > :23:23.your imagination and think outside the box. Now it's all so complicated

:23:24. > :23:28.and branded. It's drifted far from its original ideals. I think that

:23:29. > :23:36.the Lego corporation is deeply divided as to what it's trying to

:23:37. > :23:38.do. It's heavily compromised by its commercial ambitions. In recent

:23:39. > :23:42.years it's become a corporation that's really ripping off the

:23:43. > :23:48.imagination of children by selling them ready-made nonsense from films.

:23:49. > :23:53.Rest in pieces. In fact the new Lego movie, out this week, tackles this

:23:54. > :23:57.very issue of directed versus free, creative play, settling on the idea

:23:58. > :24:03.that it takes all sorts to be a Lego enthusiast. Relax everybody, I'm

:24:04. > :24:08.here. Batman! And of course, once you've watched it, you can buy The

:24:09. > :24:13.Lego Movie kit and recaet it at home. -- re-create it at home. Yet

:24:14. > :24:17.our simple desire to build from only blocks and imagination hasn't gone

:24:18. > :24:24.away. It's the digital world that's picking up where plastic bricks left

:24:25. > :24:31.off. Paving the way of video game Minecraft. This is forwards. So W is

:24:32. > :24:35.forward? W is forward. U to place a box. What are you doing there? I'm

:24:36. > :24:43.making the shelter. Never have I felt more old than I'm feeling now.

:24:44. > :24:48.Minecraft is a virtual world where players build their own creations

:24:49. > :24:54.with 3D blocks. With more than 42 million users, it's a huge, global

:24:55. > :24:58.phenomenon. Minecraft is a digital equivalent of Lego. It's not the

:24:59. > :25:02.re-invention of Lego, it's the spirit of what Lego is. Lego is

:25:03. > :25:07.about building a building. Minecraft is about building a world, building

:25:08. > :25:09.an environment, bimeding an environment -- building an

:25:10. > :25:14.environment that me and my friends can go around. Everything is cuby?

:25:15. > :25:20.Everything is pixellated. Oh, right OK. I'm getting it. As soon as you

:25:21. > :25:23.go into the world and you put down one block, you get it, I can put

:25:24. > :25:28.these blocks down. That's where it takes you on a journey of

:25:29. > :25:32.creativity. It's not like oh, do this, do that. It's do you want to

:25:33. > :25:37.do this, because you can. If you're thinking, I want to make a massive

:25:38. > :25:41.castle, you can. But you just have to have the resources. There are no

:25:42. > :25:45.limits. There are no limits to what you can do. Through the internet,

:25:46. > :25:49.huge groups of players can join forces and build things together.

:25:50. > :25:56.Any number of people can join in. How many of your friends play this?

:25:57. > :26:04.A lot. Basically everyone in the class. Everyone in my class probably

:26:05. > :26:11.as well. It socialises the game. When people come together and create

:26:12. > :26:16.one thing, just some amazing things start happening. The scale of

:26:17. > :26:20.Minecraft is epic, but its worlds aren't limited to fantasy.

:26:21. > :26:24.Architects and town planners are using this building block game to

:26:25. > :26:29.transform our cities into places we actually want to live in. This is my

:26:30. > :26:32.old neighbourhood in East London. There's definitely room for

:26:33. > :26:36.improvement, but how do you make yourself heard? You wouldn't want to

:26:37. > :26:40.walk down there at midnight on your own. Through Minecraft, we'll all be

:26:41. > :26:45.able to make our cities safer, cleaner and smarter. We're going to

:26:46. > :26:50.have a drift through the neighbourhood. Let's set off.

:26:51. > :26:57.My old stomping ground has been transformed into a 3D model. Thanks

:26:58. > :27:01.to Benachir Mebjdoub. Through the model I can make virtual

:27:02. > :27:06.improvements and local City councillors will be able to see

:27:07. > :27:12.them. There's a dark area here. Absolutely yes. You could improve

:27:13. > :27:16.this. The best way is to put some lighting. Let's see that in

:27:17. > :27:22.architecture, proper flames like in the Roman times. Yes. It's feeling

:27:23. > :27:26.maybe a little brighter. If you were down there on your own, you might

:27:27. > :27:29.not be as nervous. You will feel safer with a better lighting. We can

:27:30. > :27:34.see how easy it is to use. It's two see how easy it is to use. It'stwo

:27:35. > :27:41.two clicks. People can interact with this. Absolutely. A child can use

:27:42. > :27:46.blocks to build up a house etc. You can access with the project while

:27:47. > :27:50.seating at home. That will certainly foster participation from the

:27:51. > :27:58.community. That will give much more power to the neighbourhood. Through

:27:59. > :28:02.Minecraft, an entire community can team up online and redesign their

:28:03. > :28:07.neighbourhood en masse. It's been tested in Stockholm with the project

:28:08. > :28:10.Blockholm. The UN have use today with young people in Kenya to

:28:11. > :28:18.regenerate urban areas in desperate need of restructuring. Minecraft

:28:19. > :28:21.enables people to think about the ecosystem of things and that's going

:28:22. > :28:27.to be fascinating how that evolves. I have no doubt that the ack tects

:28:28. > :28:37.of tomorrow will -- architects of tomorrow will have played Minecraft

:28:38. > :28:41.as children, absolutely no doubt. Who knows what kind of architects,

:28:42. > :28:45.what kind of buildings the construction toys of the future will

:28:46. > :28:49.produce. For me, there's something so inspirational about holding a

:28:50. > :28:58.simple block in the palm of your hand. No developer would ever pay

:28:59. > :29:04.for that because there's only room for the elevator. This was supposed

:29:05. > :29:09.to be a camera, like a viewpoint to look into the future. This is Tom at

:29:10. > :29:15.the end of the Lego rainbow.