Throwback and reminiscing The Conference, Malmö in 2024: Human Decentred Design, 15 minutes. #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRdW...

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 johannesklingebiel.de/portfolio/a-...

@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

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

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

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...

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

One week to go until Future Days! ✅ Notebook ✅ Pen ✅ Mind open ✅ Laptop closed futuredays.io

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-...

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

🌱 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

💥 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

Fifteenth #15: On refusal It’s out now. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Monday 17 March, I’m in an online panel on Future(s) of Masculinity, convened by Malmö’s When!When! Agency www.eventbrite.com/x/round-tabl...

What a day. My head is spinning from the ideas, insights and visions shared at #ResearchByTheSea (on and off-stage) — @clearleft.com and @benjamin.parry.is thank you for having me!

Watch my talk “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” from @ffconf.org where I address my growing concerns about digital existence, archival capture, exploitation of Black digital imagery and the fragility of our technological infrastructures. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKs...

My most recent essay on the 15th saw me take a walk around Hard Graft at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social - if you are in or around London between now and April, go and see it! uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/fifteenth-...

Drawing from Black, Latinx, and queer histories; international feminisms, and artists who won't be bound by disciplinary orthodoxy, my talk at Research by the Sea explores refusal as design practice. Art: “Incantations to a Vague Borderland” by Gaia Ozwyn.

New review of Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia! uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/first-14-c...

My latest essay is … On FESTAC ‘77 open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Next week on First & Fifteenth… FESTAC

"What are the words and the forms with which to do and say and make what we need to live in, now?" Read Christina Sharpe’s “The Shapes of Grief,” one of our most-read pieces of the year.

New review of Imagination: A Manifesto by @ruha9.bsky.social Start the new year with hope! open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

My next book review is of Imagination: A Manifesto by @ruha9.bsky.social — arriving January 1st uxmichaelco.substack.com

New! ✉️ open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

15.XII.2024: undersea internet cables open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Ever think about death, digital existence, or the fragility of the internet? Vote for my talk and I can tell you some things at SXSW London sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/l...

In December, my thinking turns to internet infrastructures and the contentious question of their control. On 1st December, read my review of Eaten by the Internet, edited by @ccs.bsky.social Link in bio to subscribe! 🔗 #BlackSky #Sociotechnical #uxmichaelco

Pondering ephemera as I read BlueSky deletions: deletions.bsky.bad-example.com via #WebCurios

Thursday 27 Feb. Brighton. That’s me, on digital refusal. Be there! researchbythesea.com/michael-kibedi Thank you @uxlondon.bsky.social

On First & Fifteenth next month, I am thinking and writing about… cables 🔌 — link to subscribe in my bio 🔗

I’m using this current moment to articulate my vision for technological futures. Fifteenth #11: On reclaiming futures, out today open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

My next essay is experimental, as it addresses my theoretical, poetic and speculative influences to articulate what alternative technological futures can mean. Subscribe to get Fifteenth no. 11: On reclaiming futures. It arrives Friday 15th November. uxmichaelco.substack.com #uxmichaelco

Hello to my new followers 🙋🏾 I am a design researcher writing about human-computer interaction, conceptual art, Black Geographies, and data justice at First & Fifteenth (so called, because these are the dates they get sent out) Next essay arrives Friday 15th November: uxmichaelco.substack.com

Back home and the first cup of tea from my #ffconf mug 👌🏾 Thank you for everything @ffconf.org — you convinced me in the first 5 mins to sign up for BlueSky 🦋