Automating Care, Reimagining Futures: Who Designs Disabled Futures?

What happens when disabled people are not positioned as passive recipients of care, but as the authors and designers of its future? This talk introduces a new theatrical-digital, science-fiction project by multi-award winning, bionic writer-filmmaker and TORCH/RSC IF Fellow Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini (@astrominx). Drawing on lived experience of navigating the UK’s underfunded and under-resourced adult social care system, the work explores a near-future in which governments turn to automated care technologies before robust ethical frameworks are in place. Blending theatre-making with research, the project interrogates what becomes possible when disabled lived experience disrupts efficiency-driven narratives of care?

The session will offer insight into the project’s development process, alongside reflections on creative practice as a critical tool for reimagining technological futures.

Part of the Feminist Thinking Seminar Series.

Intersectional Humanities | IF at the RSC