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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

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👊🏾💥 critical technologist // design researcher // 📨 writes First & Fifteenth // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // 🔗 https://linktr.ee/uxmichaelco // 🌐 uxmichael.co

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 8d

Human Decentred Design (2025 edition): A trilogy in four parts, presented at @contentrising.bsky.social earlier this year at @rbgkew.bsky.social in Wakehurst. 🍃 💚

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlz...

#FirstAndFifteenth #ContentRising #uxmichaelco

Human decentred design | Michael Kibedi

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 13h

@webdevconf.com forgot to tag you in the original post! 🤦🏾

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 15h

This Friday. Bristol. There still a few tickets left 🏃🏾💨

My talk? “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality”

webdevconf.com

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK

WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 7d

Thank you Rowenna! Oh and this paper… 👌🏾 I feel like I’m going to disappear into a research rabbit hole 🙌🏾

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 8d

Human decentred design | Michael Kibedi

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 9d

nouvelle arrivée dans ma bibliothèque: APOCALYPSE NERDS écrite par @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social et @oliviertesquet.bsky.social publié par @divergences.bsky.social

#FirstAndFifteenth #PremierEtQuinzième #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI

Top-down photo of a critical technology non-fiction book published in French by éditions divergences, on plain white table, called APOCALYPSE NERDS by Nastasia Hadjadji and Olivier Tesquet. The book has plain bright yellow cover with both the title and authors in large text and the rest of the cover taken up with a blurb in French.

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 21d

Throwback and reminiscing The Conference, Malmö in 2024: Human Decentred Design, 15 minutes.

#HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI

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Michael Kibedi, a tall Black man wearing a rather fetching yellow black and white striped sleeveless knitted top, onstage at The Conference 2024, delivering a talk in the cavernous Slaghuset venue space in Malmö. It was a two day conference and, I've got to be honest, a career highlight. It was such a vibe!

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 24d

Thank you @klingebeil.bsky.social for introducing me to HYPE: A Critical Field Guide. 🙌🏾

This will be a very useful pocket-sized reference as I begin to navigate @hypestudies.bsky.social

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A POV shot showing a hand holding a small passport sized self-published booklet called HYPE: A critical field guide by the German design researcher Johannes Klingebiel.

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 24d

@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾‍💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco

Hype Studies party in the Sants neighbourhood of Barcelona, a small club lit with red light and lots of hypers having after hours getting down!

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 28d

Pulling up to @hypestudies.bsky.social at UOC Barcelona #uxmichaelco #TomorrowsEssaysBeingWrittenToday

Photo of a redbrick building that has been newly renovated so that it contains a glass front and modern interior, which is one of the buildings of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona.

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Sep 7

Friday 10 October, I will be speaking at @webdevconf.com in Bristol.

Tickets and lineup: webdevconf.com

My talk “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” explores digital existence, archival capture, and the fragility of our technological infrastructures.

#WebDevConf #WDC2025 #uxmichaelco

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK

WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

webdevconf.com

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Aug 25

I'm doing work in an adjacent are of interest, so I have added quite a few bits. 👌🏾 Many other great papers and resources in here too. Will keep an eye on this!

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Aug 24

Omg I remember this!!!

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Aug 2

Immerse yourself in “Meshwork” by Merve Mepa: a conceptual art installation exhibited at SALT Galata. The piece untangles the connections between ancient weaving practices and complex technological infrastructures. Exclusively on First & Fifteenth. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

A dimly lit gallery space with spare interior fittings with a fluorescent light tube leaning against the two side walls that lights the room with an eerie blue-grey light. In the middle of the gallery, is a raised platform with a series of steel pipes, running in fixed track formation with occasional bends, that range from the ceiling to the floor in the middle of which are a number of small flat screens with graphical displays. White text is overlaid stating “Meshwork by Merve Mepa. Connecting the structural logics of weaving to the complex digital infrastructures of today.”

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Jul 24

@hypervisible.bsky.social super! thank you! 🙌🏾

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Jul 24

@hypervisible.bsky.social was anything published or shared from this workshop? Refusal as a way of turning away from expansive and extractive digital ecosystems is a research thread I've been exploring for some time... (among other things!)

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Jul 1

New essay. First & Fifteenth. 1 August 2025.

In which I discuss Meshwork by Merve Mepa, an installation at Salt Galata, untangling the connections between ancient weaving practices and complex technological infrastructures.

#DefyCategorisation #EthnoMathematicsMadeMeDoIt #uxmichaelco

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Apr 22

One week to go until Future Days!

✅ Notebook
✅ Pen
✅ Mind open
✅ Laptop closed

futuredays.io

A rainbow hued poster promoting a conference in Lisbon called Future Days with the giant slogan in black serif text “I’m co-creating a brighter future”. The conference takes place at Estufa Fria from 30 April to 2 May 2025

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Apr 1

Today's newsletter from First & Fifteenth takes a swerve, thanks to April Cools' Club! www.aprilcools.club

Dries van Noten! Fashion! Read it now!

Thanks to @hillelwayne.com

uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/dries-van-...

Dries van Noten in Five Looks

Elegance and embroidery, peonies and prints

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WDC @webdevconf.com · Mar 31

It most certainly is a challenge building an entire OS for a conference but we're working on it!

WDC OS 1.0 has launched, along with out early bird tickets for #WDC2025

webdevconf.com

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK

WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

webdevconf.com

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Mar 31

🎟️ Tickets are available now: www.tickettailor.com/events/conte...

😉 Use my discount code for 10% off: MICHAEL10

Buy tickets – Content Rising

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Mar 31

🌱 Content Rising is a one-day conference for environment and climate creatives @contentrising.bsky.social

📍 It will be on Thursday, 12 June at the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Wakehurst.

🎤 I will be one of the speakers. My talk is called Human Decentred Design.

www.contentrising.co.uk

A mid-green promotional poster for a conference called Content Rising taking place on Thursday, 12 June at Kew Wakehurst in Sussex, England. One of the speakers is a design researcher called Michael Kibedi, who is a Black man with glasses wearing a white shirt, who will be giving a talk called Human Decentred Design.

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Mar 23

💥 Newsflash for environment and climate creatives! I’ll be speaking at Content Rising on Thursday 12 June.

contentrising.co.uk

Follow their account as more details will follow! @contentrising.bsky.social

Communications for the climate emergency | Content Rising

In-person gathering aimed at environmental creatives and content-producers, with inspiring talks, hands-on sessions and memorable storytelling from inspirational people. Our gathering takes place on 1...

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Mar 15

“The Spirit of Bartleby: In defence of refusal”, presented at Research by the Sea, 27 February 2025

drive.google.com/file/d/1xjzr...

RBTS2025_ The Spirit of Bartleby_ In defence of refusal.pdf

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Mar 15

Drawing together many threads… starting with the art of Gaia Ozwyn; “I would prefer not to” says Bartleby; so we go to the Technoskepticism of @disconetwork.bsky.social to Nope of Glitch Feminism
@legacyrussell.bsky.social to #WeRefuse of @kcarterjackson.bsky.social to

Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · Mar 15

Fifteenth #15: On refusal
It’s out now.

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Fifteenth #15: On refusal

Nope* as a method

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