Exploring Trends within the Digital Landscape
PLP Labs’ early adoption of NFTs and the metaverse shows architecture is no longer confined to physical space. By launching 5,000 architectural NFTs and designing a digital pavilion for the Metaverse Architecture Biennale, we showed how blockchain and virtual worlds can extend design services, ownership, and impact. We believe in engaging early because those who explore these emerging platforms now will help define the rules, opportunities, and cultural relevance in the future.
1. Introduction
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2. NFT'S
Can design services be tokenized or distributed through smart contracts?
PLP Labs collaborated with Metaverse property platform VerseProp to launch 5000 NFTs. We continued to expand the role and visualization of architecture.
The tokens gave buyers the owning rights to a unique digital artwork but also access to exclusive content embedded into the tokens, from webinar tickets and physical artwork through to the chance to work with PLP to design their own building in the Metaverse. As part of this endeavour, we also hosted events, like panel discussions with architectural and real estate leaders, in the metaverse.
The tokens gave buyers the owning rights to a unique digital artwork but also access to exclusive content embedded into the tokens, from webinar tickets and physical artwork through to the chance to work with PLP to design their own building in the Metaverse. As part of this endeavour, we also hosted events, like panel discussions with architectural and real estate leaders, in the metaverse.
PLP Labs collaborated with Metaverse property platform VerseProp to launch 5000 NFTs. We continued to expand the role and visualization of architecture.
3. Metaverse
To what extent is the Metaverse a space for real-world designers?
PLP Labs debuted the “Future Sumbiotecture” at the world’s first Metaverse Architecture Biennale. The event, held in the metaverses Decentraland and W3rlds, calls back to the first architecture biennale with the theme “Presence of the Future”, offering a moment to contemplate the future of digital architecture.
The design explored the notion of ‘scale’ and the potential for digital fungal structures to serve as an educational tool. It is in the metaverse, the future of design and nature may meet beyond the confines of the Anthropocene.
We debuted a first-of-its-kind digital pavilion in Decentraland and W3rlds. It is situated in the new digital and architectural frontier of the metaverse, where people, planet, and technology collide.
4. Innovation
What is the value and risk of early adaptation of NFTs and the Metaverse?
We are curious how architecture studios can engage with emerging digital technologies like the blockchain, NFTs and the metaverse.
"It is encouraging to see that other major studios are leading the way by looking into what is undoubtedly a major new development not only for technology or gaming, but for societal interaction, new design thinking and the digital art community,"
"We certainly are in the first wave of studios that are testing the waters and committing to exploring what our collective role is in this new world,"
Innovation - Richard Woolsgrove, Head of Digital Technology
5. Digital and Physical Worldbuilding
A lot of an architect's work is digital, we always have one foot in the virtual world. So where do these worlds cross and how should we be engaging with them?
We developed the collection to explore the connection between physical architecture and real estate and the virtual world. With blockchain technologies, like NFTs and the Metaverse, now forming a rapidly growing sector, we felt that it was important to explore what our role as architects could be in this new reality and to establish what opportunities might be available for us and our industry --- Woolsgrove
"We aim to bridge the gap between the physcial and ditigal worlds by making both of them more accessible to the other – through design and ease of involvement,"
