kevin m. rowe
Geographer, educator, systems thinker, artist, poet
km. rowe is a geographer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist based in Xalapa, Mexico. Embracing the principle of festina lente (make haste slowly), km. integrates diligence, balance, and tranquility into his work. He identifies as an anarchist, eschewing hierarchical structures in favor of collaborative and decentralized approaches to life and work.
- Geography & Mapping GIS, spatial analysis, Leaflet.js, PostGIS
- Education & Leadership Curriculum design, team coordination, inclusive + radical pedagogy
- Creative Technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Letterpress, Mimeography, Paper, Scissors
- Workflow Optimization Slack, VScode, Neovim, CLI
- Leaflet-WP WordPress plugin for interactive mapping and storytelling
- minmem Minimalist journaling app with mood tagging and privacy-first design
- Digital Chapbooks Poetry meets HTML + interface design with ASCII covers and scrolling stanzas
- invisible city press Printing and distribution of poetic material
- Taller Cero Lo-fi print studio utilising letterpress and mimeography
- antigallery Pop-up arts events + errant wayfaring gallery imagining an artistic ecology without capitalists
- Workshops Collaborative learning, radical pedagogy, and community building
- the anarchive Carefully curated anarchist starter pack + link hive
- The 404 Commons A BBS-inspired, decentrailised web architecture for drift-based publishing, where pages are seeds, and discovery replaces the feed
- The Solarpunk Almanac A digital almanac taking inspirations from the solarpunk movement
- Huewave A language-free blog and moodboard based on colour and sound
- squiddd A playful, interpretive blog exploring water-based themes in envioronmentalism
- BSc in Geography Focus on human-environment interactions and spatial justice
- MEd in Education Focus on self-directed learning, unschooling, and deschooling
- Ongoing Learning Anarchist pedagogy, open-source tools, experimental artistic practices
- Poetry, Essays, and Writing Themes of place, identity, community, and resistance
- Photography Urban landscape and everyday moments
- Art Experimental liberation through collage and letterpress
- Digital Interactive tools, publishing systems, and poetic software artifacts
- kmrowe.me ✍🏽📚
- kmnada.mmm.page 📷+🖼️ [old]
- kmnada.page 📷+🖼️ [new]
- robotameri.ca 🤖📓
- kmnada.site 📸
- unexpected.quest 🎒
- the 404 commons grove 🌳
- anarchive.surge.sh 🏴
- spalmanac.surge.sh 🌞
- huewave 🌈
- squiddd 🦑
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I move fluidly between roles: poet-technologist, workflow artist, and digital cartographer. These aren’t really job titles, they’re ways i work: poetic, precise, and always grounded in systems of care.
I create simple tools that empower. I believe in flexibility over rigidity, tools as multi-use instruments, and design as a form of care. My current influences include poets like bpNichol and Gertrude Stein, coders like Fred George, and thinkers like Félix Guattari and bell hooks.