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kevin m. rowe

km. rowe is a geographer, field operations specialist, and multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico. Currently working as Geographer & Field Ops Specialist Team Lead at Exactus Engineering. His work moves across team coordination, radical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and creative practice. This work is tended by the principle of festina lente (make haste slowly), building on diligence, balance, and care.

He favours collaborative, decentralised approaches to life and work, building with and alongside people rather than over them. He writes and publishes poetry, prints letterpress and mimeograph works, engages in documentary photography, offers educational consulting, trains and leads a solar field operations team, builds small cartographic and digital tools, and maintains a growing network of web projects at km.garden.

  • Geography & Mapping GIS, spatial analysis, field operations, Leaflet.js, PostGIS, area delineation, buffer analysis
  • Field Operations & Leadership Team coordination, logistics, runbooks, ZenOps methodology, calm + observable systems
  • Education & Pedagogy Curriculum design, inclusive + radical pedagogy, self-directed learning, workshop facilitation
  • Creative Technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, letterpress, mimeography, paper, scissors
  • Toolchain VS Code, Neovim, CLI (zsh/bash), Git, Node.js, Python, bare hands
  • Systems & Ecology Soft Stack Ecology, regenerative design, solarpunk infrastructure, small-scale networked systems
  • Design & Publishing Typography, layout systems, print-to-web/web-to-print translation, digital chapbooks, minimalist editorial design
  • Photography & Fieldwork Working-class documentation, urban + rural exploration, film + digital
  • km.garden Digital garden — gravitational centre for all web presences. Pure HTML+CSS, no JS, GitHub Pages.
  • Huewave Colour-coded music blog. Each post is a hex colour that plays a generative melody via Tone.js.
  • Digital Chapbooks Poetry meets HTML + interface design — ASCII covers, scrolling stanzas, CRT/VT100 aesthetic.
  • The Solarpunk Almanac A digital almanac drawing from solarpunk philosophy. JSON-backed, filterable, paginated.
  • The 404 Commons BBS-inspired, decentralised web architecture for drift-based publishing — pages as seeds, discovery replaces the feed.
  • the anarchive Curated anarchist starter pack + link hive. D3 force graph, breathing SVG nodes, solarpunk aesthetic.
  • 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 — an artistic ecology without capitalists.
  • Workshops Collaborative learning, radical pedagogy, and community building.
  • squiddd Playful, interpretive blog exploring water-based themes in environmentalism.
  • Exactus Leaflet Mapping AI-assisted Leaflet.js map generation — buffers, area delineation, vector points. JSON-fed, no plugin required.
  • minmem Minimalist journaling app with mood tagging and privacy-first design.
  • BSc in Geography Focus on human-environment interactions and spatial justice
  • MEd in Education Focus on self-directed learning, unschooling, and deschooling
  • Ongoing Learning Radical pedagogy, open-source tools, experimental artistic practices

I move fluidly between roles: poet-technologist, workflow artist, radical pedagogue, and digital cartographer. These aren't job titles, they're ways I think and work: poetic, but precise, and always grounded in systems of care.

I create simple moments and tools that empower. I believe in flexibility over rigidity, tools as multi-use instruments, and design as a form of care. My practice is shaped by what I call the Soft Stack Ecology and Soft Circuit framework, which treats systems as living things to tend, not optimise. Calm, human reliability. Boring + observable. Deliberately paced.

My field operations practice is informed by what I have called ZenOps 🧘🏽, a pragmatic, care-driven way to run a modern operations team without turning the team into a machine. It treats “ops” (systems, tooling, coordination, incidents, documentation, on-call support) as an ecology 🌱. again, something to tend to, not merely optimise. The goal is stable, humane reliability with clear expectations, with small reversible changes, built-in skill redundancy, low-drama incident response, and workflows that protect attention and reduce hidden labor.

Current influences: poets like bpNichol and Gertrude Stein; coders like Fred George; thinkers like Félix Guattari and bell hooks.

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