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Lee Rooney Creative Director

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Polkadot Web 3 Summit

THE BRIEF
Bring together the world's most influential Web3 pioneers, individual creators, developers, corporations and investors under one roof. A gathering of like-minded minds united by a shared ambition to challenge convention and build the next evolution of the internet.

The brief was to create something bold, maverick and disruptive. Not another corporate technology conference, but an underground movement. An exclusive world for those shaping what comes next, where the future of the web could be imagined, challenged and built.

THE PROCESS
We took an abandoned industrial building, a symbol of the old world of Web2, and brought it back to life as a physical manifestation of the emerging Web3 movement.

Raw, unfinished and deliberately unconventional, the environment was designed to feel like stepping inside a living, breathing technology network. A world in constant development, where structures, experiences and ideas connected, evolved and transformed.

Every element was conceived to immerse guests in this underground ecosystem, blurring the boundaries between physical and digital and making them feel less like spectators and more like active participants in a technological revolution.

THE RESULTS
An event unlike anything our audience had experienced before. A clandestine gathering that brought together a global community of builders, thinkers, creators and investors, creating the feeling of being part of something bigger.

Guests stepped into a world that felt like a living matrix of technology, innovation and possibility. Not simply there to hear about the future of Web3, but to become part of the conversation, contribute to its evolution and help shape what came next.

The outside world might not have known what was happening inside. That was rather the point.

AGENCY: Lively
IDEATION/ART DIRECTION: Lee Rooney
VIDEO: Lively Studio
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lee Rooney
VISUALISATION: Ade Cruft

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