Micah Rutenberg is an assistant professor and co-founder of StudioMars, a speculative design-research practice based in Knoxville, Tennessee. His scholarship and creative work investigate how architecture situates the dynamics of logistics, infrastructure, and capital in the 21st century. Micah is the author of The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley (Applied Research + Design, 2026), a thematic atlas that assembles a geospatial history of the TVA’s profound social and physical impact on the region. He is also lead organizer of Regional Globalism in the Tennessee Valley, a sustained design-research effort that includes symposia, publications, and exhibitions exploring key questions and provocations about the region’s future and its global implications. Micah has lectured and presented nationally and internationally, with writing appearing in publications such as JAE, Scenario Journal, and Log 39. A former Tennessee Architecture Fellow, he has previously held positions at Woodbury University and Arizona State University.