About — thejaymo

JAY SPRINGETT IS A WRITER, THEORIST AND STRATEGIST FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS.
HIS CONCERNS ARE WITH CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

HE IS CURRENTLY WRITING HIS FIRST PUBLIC BOOK:
“LAND AS PLATFORM”

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JAY WRITES ONLINE UNDER THE HANDLE @THEJAYMO

Jay currently hosts the weekly personal podcast Permanently Moved. A podcast 301 seconds in length. Written, recorded and edited in one hour. He also hosts the ‘gentle webshow’ Come Internet With Me.

Jay is a long time admin on Solarpunks.net a website dedicated to the emerging sub-genre. Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilisation look like, and how can we get there?”. Solarpunk explores what free energy sources and decentralised energy infrastructure could mean for future society.

He was selected as one of WeAreEurope’s 64 Faces of Europe in 2019 and speaks regularly at arts and cultural events. Previously: Unsound Festival, Sonar+D, Fiber Festival and Transmediale. Reach out if you’d like him to speak at your event.

Jay is a founding member of the decentralised creative exchange Guild.is; a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and is affiliated to the Institute for Atemporal Studies. He also concept curates the ‘theory object’ #stacktivism – ‘A term that attempts to give form to a critical conversation & line of enquiry around infrastructure & the relationship we have to it’.

Jay was also the co-designer of SCIM (Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps) Icon Set and co-founded The Thought Menu, a nomadic talks series in 2012.

Jay worked professionally worked in the HR tech and Talent Strategy consulting sectors for nearly a decade. Various roles have included: Business Operations, Product Management, Project Management and Tech Implementation. He is now a freelance consultant.

He is available for strategy work across domains assisting organisations navigate complex high growth environments. With a focus on: building and scaling regenerative business cultures; executing healthy narrative strategies; and coaching founders and CxO level management. He prioritises work that values employee agency, prefigurative futures and innovative company forms.
He currently sits on several organisation’s advisory groups, and has ongoing coaching calls with several CxO’s. He has also worked extensively in blockchain and the world of the distributed web.

Jay has been meditating seriously since 2012 and has written a popular chapbook on the subject under a pseudonym. He sometimes thinks it has ruined his life. He is also a wizard.

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