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kevin m. rowe

km. rowe is a geographer, educator, sytems thinker, multidisciplinary artist, and poet based in Xalapa, Mexico. Embracing the principle of festina lente (make haste slowly), km. integrates diligence, balance, and tranquility into all of his work. He is an anarchist, eschewing hierarchical structures in favor of collaborative and decentralised approaches to life and labour.

  • 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 Optimisation Slack, VScode, Neovim, CLI
  • 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
  • minmem A minimalist journaling app with mood tagging and privacy-first design
  • invisible city press Printing and distribution of poetic material
  • Taller Cero Low-tech print studio utilising letterpress and mimeography
  • antigallery Pop-up arts events + errant wayfaring gallery imagining an artistic ecology without capitalists
  • unexpectED Collaborative learning, radical pedagogy, and community building
  • the anarchive A carefully curated anarchist starter pack + digital garden
  • 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
  • Leaflet-WP A Wordpress plugin for interactive mapping and geographic storytelling
  • 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, digital heutagogy, digital ecology, FOSS history, and experimental artistic + photographic practices

I move fluidly between roles: poet-technologist, digital cartographer, radical pedagogue, ecologist, geographer, poet, photographer, and artist. These aren’t really job titles, they describe the ways i work: poetic yet precise, and always grounded in systems of care.

I enjoy creating 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.

My philosophy is simple and grounded in an understanding of care as a process of creating ethical, therapeutic, and liberatory spaces. Care sits at the confluence of ethics, attention, and action: I see, I act. I celebrate warmth, affection, radical hospitality, and community. These are the founding pillars of my philosophy.

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