Landmark DDP looks to future with planned NFT release

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The iconic spaceship-like landmark Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Jung District, central Seoul, is covered with 45,133 silver panels. I

The iconic spaceship-like landmark Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Jung District, central Seoul, is covered with 45,133 silver panels. In the near future, Seoul Design Foundation plans to add value to that number when it issues 45,133 nonfungible tokens (NFTs) — one for each panel — and provides token owners with a variety of benefits. It’s one of the foundation’s latest projects to integrate the latest digital trends into major public spaces. The project is still in its early stages, and little has been decided, including the platform on which the NFTs will be sold. “To The Future” is an exhibition at the DDP’s NFT Gallery on the third floor of the Design Hall, in which each of the NFTs tells a story about Web 3.0, video art, global warming or personal media. The blank square in the name represents the “potential of what the future holds,” the foundation said. In Wang’s “P.P (Possessory Public),” the artist imagined all 45,133 panels as separate television screens with different photographs of the DDP on them. Kim00’s “Flying through Time” took a more futuristic approach and devised a dystopian space version of the DDP. Some referenced the DDP building in their NFTs, like Wang Da-yeon, Kim00 (pronounced “Kim-ddaeng-ddaeng”) and Mo Jun-seok.