Doing Disability Futures: a new collaborative research programme

The Love Tank is recruiting to two sets of creative art-centred workshops as part of a new collaborative research programme, Doing Disability Futures.

Doing Disability Futures is funded by the British Academy, using arts and story-telling to imagine alternative futures.

Kylo Thomas, programme coordinator at The Love Tank says: "The workshops are geared towards queer disabled people of colour and migrants. Together we will ask how we might build a world centred around abolition and crip justice - a world that isn't just liveable for some but irresistible for all."

Dr Ingrid Young, co-lead of the project from The University of Edinburgh says: "These workshops are the first phase in producing knowledge and art throughcollaboration and experimentation.  From these workshops, we will develop not only academic writing, but also create an exhibition with workshop participants, work with our project artist to produce original illustrations informed by these workshops and contribute to a project-wide anthology focused on disability futures".

The workshops will run both online and in person (in Greenwich, London) in February and March 2025, culminating in an online exhibition. Participants in the workshops will receive £280 for their time and experience.

More information, and the sign-up form is available at www.disabilityfutures.uk/workshops

Doing Disability Futures is a collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Stavanger, and Stockholm University. More information is available at www.disabilityfutures.uk