James Delaney

James Delaney is the Founder and Managing Director of BlockWorks, a games studio which creates educational experiences inside Minecraft. He has directed projects for clients including English Heritage, Disney and Tate which have been downloaded over 100 million times.

He is also the Chair of the Block by Block Foundation, a non-profit partnership between UN-Habitat and Microsoft which uses videogames as a community engagement and participatory design tool. The Foundation has helped to create over 150 public spaces around the world using this approach.

James studied architecture at the University of Cambridge, and has a Masters of Research in interdisciplinary urban design from UCL. He now teaches at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, lecturing on ‘Videogame Urbanism’, where the worlds of videogames and architecture collide.