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Michael Kibedi
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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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Tune. 🎹
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Futurisk - Lonely Streets (1982 Ocean Sound)
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November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Couple of weeks to go before I’ll be doing a guest lecture at the RCA for their Design Ethics class, part of the Design Futures masters MDes. 🤗 #RCADesignFutures #DesignFutures #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco
Royal coat of arms and logo for the Royal College of Arts, one of the top arts universities in the world here in London. The white logo and text is superimposed on a dark purple-grey filtered photo of the Dyson building campus.
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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One week left to submit something!

What's come in already is 🔥
danishanley.bsky.social Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 22d
We're organizing an event on technological refusal in Maastricht, Feb '26 and I'm super excited about it. Details below 👇 Deadline for contributions Oct 31st. Come join us!

www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
‘No & ...’ : A Forum on Technological Refusal - Home
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October 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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New publication!🚨 Fungi As Your Futurist by @sporesight.bsky.social

12 fungi-inspired design principles, with contributions from 18 global voices across multidisciplinary design and research (inc. me!)

sporesight.co/fungi-futures

#FungiAsYourFuturist #RegenerativeDesign #uxmichaelco
Fungi inspired promotional poster "Fungi as Your Futurist: A playbook for symbiotic futures” by sporesight studio. “Fungi as your Futurist” a limited edition print zine about regenerative design, opened to showing the 18 cross-disciplinary contributors. A hand pressing open “Fungi as your Futurist”, a limited edition print zine about regenerative design, to the pages listing “12 fungi principles”.
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Nuh-uh-uh, that’s a chalet.

Duvet is the word that French people use when they want to go somewhere quickly or express encouragement.
sybarite1913.bsky.social Sybarite @sybarite1913.bsky.social · 29d
No beloved, that’s Strangé

Duvet is the fancy French house people go to in the winter to sit on bear rugs and drink wine and ski
bumblebee.myatproto.social BumbleB @bumblebee.myatproto.social · Oct 10
No no no. That’s Boulé.

Duvet is the perfume Grace Jones was promoting in Boomerang.
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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@lurkmoophy.bsky.social will you be posting that amazing @webdevconf.com intro video online somewhere? I really want to show my ma! 🥲 #WDC2025
October 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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@webdevconf.com was so good! Amazing to meet and listen to such talented and lovely humans. Thanks to @lurkmoophy.bsky.social and @alexolder.com for putting such a great event together
All the speakers from WDC 2025 on stage in front of a thank you message Speaker Michael Kibedi talking at a lectern in front of a slide featuring a book cover Speaker Henry Desroches talking at a lectern in front of a slide featuring a photo of traffic with the phrase “but as time wore on”
October 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Unsolicited NIC pic
Photo of a network interface card on a white background.
October 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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What a day @webdevconf.com #WDC2025 #uxmichaelco

A thread 🧵
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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some fairly twisted examples of AI actors in the "grief tech" space

electric talk so far from @uxmichael.co
Michael Kibedi giving a talk on stage. The screen behind him shows examples of companies that use AI to resurrect sick puppets of dead loves ones
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Thank you @lurkmoophy.bsky.social for being a brilliant host, and to @alexolder.com for bringing us all together for this year's @webdevconf.com 💛🖤

Link to my deck in comments below. 👉🏽

📀 DVD extra: video of my talk at @ffconf.org last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKs...

#WDC2025 #ffconf
Luke Murphy, co-organiser of Bristol's Web Dev Conf, introducing Michael Kibedi and his talk "Death, and how tech forgot about mortality"
October 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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This Friday. Bristol. There still a few tickets left 🏃🏾💨

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

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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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October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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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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September 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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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!
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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.
September 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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@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!
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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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.
September 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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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.
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September 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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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.”
August 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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
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.
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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One week to go until Future Days!

✅ Notebook
✅ Pen
✅ Mind open
✅ Laptop closed

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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
April 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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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

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Dries van Noten in Five Looks
Elegance and embroidery, peonies and prints
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April 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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

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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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March 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM