Technologies and (in)visibility in disability futures

This panel will showcase the work of the 5-year ‘Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures’ research project, based at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, Exeter and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. It will explore issues that surround the visibility of disability technologies through a set of multi-disciplinary approaches and formats that reflect the project team’s expertise. We will focus on the following: questions of technological absence/presence (surveillance, biotechnologies and waste, Robots and ectogenesis) in the imagining of alternative forms of embodiment in contemporary speculative fictions; exploring alternatives to the assumed ‘disappearance’ of future Augmentative and Alternative Communication, for example through brain-to-speech implants, in the context of co-constructed conversational interaction, the legibility of disability and disabled identity; and developing technologies of child health [more…].We will present these across three interwoven 30-minute sections and will use video, provocations and presented papers.