Jose Sanchez
CREATOR, BLOCK’HOOD
Innovation:
Created a sustainable city video game.
Vision:
Chilean architect Jose Sanchez created Block’hood to help users think about the resources and services needed to create sustainable cities. The Minecraft-esque game applies ecological and sustainable principals to urban planning in a virtual world with finite ecological resources.
Economics:
Sanchez is also the director of the Plethora Project, a research project investing in the future of online open-source knowledge. Block’hood is available on Sanchez’s web site.