Welcome to the present:
A participatory worldbuilding platform to help us imagine a more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable lived experience in a complex world that contains people of diverse needs and abilities.
A brief introduction.
This project was launched during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that affected each and every person on our planet.
This platform contains testimonies, stories, and art sourced from interviews and workshops conducted starting in 2020.
Coming soon, the platform will also include a free-to-play game for anyone to use to host their own workshops and generate their own stories and art that may be added to this website.
Through these practices we can continually co-create a growing archive of better futures for disabled and crip individuals.
(Rehab)futures.design is a future home to similar projects.
The future begins now.
Worldbuilding Narratives.
Letters were written from the future to the year 2021, bearing witness to what was to come. These works provoke us to break beyond our present world and consider how we can build better futures.
Expert Testimonies.
We interviewed dozens of experts from different sectors and disciplines on their lived experience and their projections for a more livable and equitable future.
Scientists, futurists, artists, therapists, researchers, patient navigators, and more contributed their opinions on current rehab problems, research priorities, and made future predictions.
You can use these design research interviews as inspiration and provocation in your workplace, home, and classroom. The interviews are also here to inform your ideas about what our future world might be like.
Please enjoy learning from the shared lives and thoughts of others.
“...[S]ocial work also highlights the process of empowerment, the process that motivates people to voice and take actions for themselves.”
— Dr. Shinyi Wu, Engineering Scientist & Faculty at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work