And it seems to be working: the library gets regular visitors from countries where information is less than free, including Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam. “The criteria for inclusion is handled by Reporters Without Borders, which ensures the library’s content is accurate, truthful, and sensitive,” reports Cian Mahar.
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Yes, we’re using this formalistic, authoritarian style, but instead it’s filled with free information.” “That was deliberate, because this architectural style is usually used by governments to reinforce their own positions of authority.” The design team “wanted to take that and turn it on its head. “The style is Classical and formal, the kind of architecture you’d see in the British Museum and New York Public Library,” says project lead James Delaney of Blockworks. In the Uncensored Library, the spatial design makes finding material easier, and allows for other forms of creation and interaction as well, such as a memorial to murdered journalists housed within the library’s walls. The non-profit Reporters Without Borders has experience on this front with projects like the audio-centric Uncensored Playlist, which evaded censors by operating through music streaming services. The idea, in part, is to work around normally filtered channels. The books are then put in “chests” and organized in the virtual space for accessibility. Creators can transcribe text into these “books,” rendering them legible and downloadable. But there are “items” within the game that effectively work like books with a theoretically infinite number of pages. On the surface, Minecraft is a game of collaborative construction and its low-res look may not appear conducive to elements like: reading articles or even entire books in-game. Their Uncensored Library project brings together architecture and journalism in an unlikely virtual reality space: the interactive gaming world of Minecraft. Similarly, when governments censor the media, groups like Reporters Without Borders spearhead efforts to make such censored material extra visible. When schools ban books, the strategy often backfires on would-be censors, resulting in greater interest around illicit literature.
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