Hannah Jo Duffew

‘Accessing post-growth futures’ emerged in response to the absence of crip studies in post-growth economic theory. Despite post-growth theory often being built upon a rejection of socially and environmentally detrimental systems, discussions of disability, assistive technology and healthcare are rare, in particular, disabled cultures and perspectives.

This research will begin to amend this, using critical design to imagine healthcare systems and assistive technologies in a manner that centres disabled perspectives, knowledge and innovation. Through uncovering crip design practices, this project can start bridging the gap in post-growth literature while also gathering knowledge on how assistive technology and healthcare are created beyond clinical and medicalised fields dominated by non-disabled people. The inclusion of post-growth theory also strengthens the investigation of how assistive technology and healthcare can be designed and produced without extractivism, ecological degradation, and environmental injustice, in keeping with the foundations of crip technoscience.