The following are notes from the “‘Worlding Otherwise: Disability, Access and Collective Futures” session during Untameable Futures (October 21, 2026), with Beáta Pintérné Sosity, Laure Saincotille and Marie Assaf.
What would a future look like if disability were treated as a source of imagination rather than as a problem to fix? That was the question behind this session, which combined a presentation on a Hungarian crip culture magazine with the report from a speculative writing workshop about “universal accessibility” in 2070.
Crip as a way of thinking and making
Beáta Pintérné Sosity, designer, doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, began with the word itself. “Crip” started as a slur and was reclaimed by disability activists as a term of identity and resistance. It can describe a person, a practice that challenges ableist norms, or the act of questioning assumptions about what bodies can do.
She placed the idea in its Hungarian context, where public debate about disability is often led by institutions and by non-disabled experts, and the disability movement has been fragmented after a period of progress in the early 2000s, followed by regression.
CTRL+ALT+CRIP as infrastructure
In response, Beáta co-founded CTRL+ALT+CRIP with disability rights activist Dániel Csángó. Launched in March 2026 with 500 free printed copies and a digital edition, the magazine approaches disability not as a problem to be solved, but as a source of knowledge, creativity, and social transformation. Its first issue, “DIS/ORDER”, challenges normative assumptions about bodies, identities, and social order, asking who gets to define what is considered normal and whose experiences and knowledge are recognised as legitimate. Bringing together disabled artists, writers, activists, and thinkers with diverse lived experiences, the magazine creates a space for critical reflection, creative expression, and the reimagining of established social and cultural narratives.
Beáta described the project as “worlding” infrastructure: a way of building the shared conditions in which different ways of knowing, making, caring and imagining can circulate. The magazine was distributed in cafés and bars, by volunteers who took copies to institutions and raillway stations, and it is now used as a source book in inclusive design teaching. Launch events were designed with sign language interpretation, a quiet room, easy-to-read information and disabled artists involved in shaping the programme and the access itself.
Her practical advice on reaching people was to build community as carefully as the publication itself. The magazine is published in plain language, which matters for readers with intellectual disabilities, and the team looked for allies in schools and advocacy groups.
2070: Universal Accessibility
The second part of the session was presented by Marie Assaf and Laure Saincotille, from the PPR Autonomie research program in France. It reflected on the experience of a workshop called “2070, universal accessibility”, co-directed with u+ during the 2025 “Printemps des humanités” (“Spring of Humanities” Festival).
During the workshop, participants imagined together a world in 2070 where universal accessibility is a reality, then wrote short pieces of fiction in about fifteen minutes. The session opened with an audio excerpt from one of the resulting texts.
The organisers put access measures in place from the start: an accessibility form sent to participants in advance, rest areas for people who needed to step away, materials designed for different visual and motor needs, and simultaneous interpretation between French Sign Language and spoken French. Their candid account of what went wrong matters as much as what went right. As an example, the metro station near the venue was not fully accessible, so some wheelchair users had to take taxis. Good planning did not remove the difficulties.
The stories themselves were revealing. Many contained technologies that compensate for disability, administrative systems that treat disabled people as second-class citizens, and work made harder by disability. Others reframed disability more positively: a distinct experience of time, collective rather than individual action, and forms of perception that work around sensory impairment. One story imagined a broken robot in a garden, repaired by someone whose own life had not turned out as planned.
What we take from it
Three points from the discussion stood out:
- The best experts are disabled people and their organisations. Beáta stressed that Disabled Persons’ Organisations (DPOs) should be involved as equal partners from the outset, and that the terms of participation – including roles, responsibilities, expectations, and decision-making power – should be transparent and mutually agreed upon.
- Accessibility is a process, not a checklist. Accessibility guides and good practice help, and a shared accessibility guide written by the PPR Autonomie team (in French) was offered as a resource. But access also depends on relationships, and on taking the time to ask.
- Disability can be a source of imagination. As Beáta put it, when knowledge from disabled people’s lived experience is shared and recognised, it can reveal the limits of the present and open other futures.