Posts
All blog posts and articles
Poems
A small collection of poems and reflections
How to do counter-UI/UX design
Interfaces help manipulate your sense of reality. As a designer/developer who is part of the plural "user" being …
Speculation & Futures
Imagining alternatives through fiction, games, and critical practice- who gets to design the future, and from where?
Archives & Memory
Who holds memory, how should archives work, and what does annotation enable? From institutional platforms to community …
How to simply set up IIIF images for your small archive
A practical guide to setting up IIIF image hosting for small archives using self-hostable tools, making collections …
Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History
This was a project to create print-ready maps of the cinema halls that existed in Hyderabad from 1936 to 2018.
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Community Infrastructure
From mesh networks in rural Karnataka to community audio archives- building technology that communities own and …
Situated Practice
Research rooted in specific places and accountable to the people it concerns- from Bidar and Wayanad to rural Bihar and …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
The Case for a Webinar Pi
Advocacy for developing Webinar Pi, a platform built on Raspberry Pi technology to foster digital literacy and …
Art that I make
A collection of posters, paintings, and visual work created across different projects and personal explorations.
Establishing a community network
A speculative framework for imagining a long-term sustainable community-owned wifi mesh network, mapping the roles of …
How I use speculative design
An overview of how I use speculative design methods to question dominant systems and envision alternative futures, …
Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives
Papad is a tool for community-based practitioners to store and access oral knowledge bases, deployed over decentralised …
Portfolio - Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications
A portfolio of workshops, classes, panels, and publications that I have organized, spoken at, and written for.
Seeing, Being, Doing: design
I co-taught a four-month course on responding as a creative practitioner to places where humans and non-humans gather, …
Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad
The output of a 5-week course in Wayanad, Kerala, in the aftermath of the 2018 floods. We designed a speculative …
Teaching & Making Together
Workshops, studios, and experiments in collaborative learning- what does it mean to teach design as a situated, …
The Lived Experience Project
Explore the journey of creating a robust knowledge infrastructure to enhance the livelihoods of persons with …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Milli Platform at International Archives Week
Presented the designs for the Milli platform at International Archives Week, demonstrating its capabilities for …
Mapping Migratory Routes of Pastoralists across India
Documentation of a project to collect, visualize, and integrate data about seasonal migratory routes of pastoralist …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Pune Covid Relief
A rapid-response website and app built during the Covid-19 crisis to aggregate and disseminate essential resources- …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala
A poetic reflection on the hidden rhythms and overlooked details of daily life in Koramangala, Bangalore.
Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives
Milli was an open-source platform designed to make archives more democratic in the described and annotated ways. The …
Selecting tools for Indian Collectives
A practical checklist for selecting digital tools for collectives in India, shaped by the unique context of limited …
Learning from COWs: Community Owned Wifi-Mesh
A reflection on facilitating community network spaces and developing principles for open climate networks through …
The Imposter Among Us
A curated reading list and presentation from a discussion on how platforms compel and enable the manufacturing of …
Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices
I explore the intricate relationship between care, collaboration, and networks within various collectives, delving into …
Community Networks Stories: Experiences from Co-creating a Local Knowledge Network
Insights on co-creating local knowledge networks to support communities in establishing and maintaining their digital …
Antarsam: Speculative Fiction about a different Internet
The Antarsam project is a speculative exploration into alternate histories and potential futures, inspired by ecological …
Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar
A transdisciplinary research project in collaboration with Project Potential Trust, Kishanganj, delving into the impact …
The Disenfranchisement of Paniyas in Kerala
By studying the literature around the Paniya tribe, I cover topics such as population, caste names and structures in …
Website Development - IIHS
Developed a WordPress web experience for the Tamil Nadu Government Sustainable Habitats program, incorporating …
Carpooling Unalone - Karwaan
A classroom project investigating carpooling culture in India through user research, leading to the design of Karwaan- a …
Habba
Redesigning the website for Habba, an artisanal e-commerce platform dedicated to supporting craftspeople and promoting …
Designers Ace
A set of 101 cards aimed at fostering design thinking among budding designers.
Glitch Art
A collection of glitch art pieces exploring digital aesthetics and visual protest through pixel manipulation and data …
Graphics work
A collection of posters, logos, explainers, and graphics created for various projects and organizations.
About
Art
Visual work spanning glitch art, graphics, posters, and paintings.
body of Work
A list of almost Everything
Résumé
Resume of Micah Alex - Designer, researcher, and facilitator interested in community technology, archives, novel …
Social
Activity across platforms