Josh Fairhead

Experience

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  Egg Events London (and others)

  Sept 2005 - Aug 2017

  Audio/Lighting Systems Engineer

  Live sound, lights, music/recording production, post production, location recording, MSP programming, music industry and digital marketing. Built and ran an audio visual company supplying technical management and AV services to Londons better known Jazz clubs and Night Clubs.

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  Pillar

  Aug 2017 - Sept 2018

  Generalist

  At Pillar we were working on an integrated crypto wallet. From my arrival we scaled from about 7-60 people. My role was transdisciplinary nature but from a birds eye view I worked across the domains of product, design, marketing, communications, R&D, events and ecosystem development. More specifically this involved the subjects of distributed identity & key management, distributed storage, encrypted messaging, block explorers, exchanges, KYC, securities, incentive models, game theory, mechanism design, directed acyclic graphs, validating DHT’s, CRDT’s and applying crypto economic primitives. Show less

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  The Commons Stack

  Sept 2018 - Jul 2019

  Ecosystem Development

  Seeding the launch of the Commons Stack while contributing to Giveth.io: narrative stewardship based on Ostroms work, community management, organising and gathering a team of teams (5!) for hackathon attendance and facilitating team communications.

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  Liminal Village

  Apr 2019 - Jun 2021

  Emergent Innovation

  Building a community of practice with stewards and visitors; epistemics, social architecture, facilitation of generative processes, teaching systemic practices, working the grounds, catalysing events and contributing to technological projects.

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  Lunar_punk_labs

  Sept 2019 - Sept 2021

  Co-Founder

  Awarded "Best Multidisciplinary Approach" from Odyssey Momentum's SSI track which was sponsored by the Dutch Blockchain Coalition.

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  Regen Foundation

  Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

  Ledger Governance Coordinator

  Representing the voice of community members within the foundation by convening spaces and facilitating them. Listening for offers/needs and weaving the appropriate connections. Sharing technical knowledge and stewarding digital literacy. Decentralised Science.

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  Sebatical

  Jan 2023 - now

  Researcher

  Learning general systematics as a first principals design framework. This has applicability as a fundemental process that can be used in practically any context, though learnt with a focus on facilitation methods and other processes geared towards creative collaboration. Studied at H3uni.org