Crip technoscience

A framework from disability studies, articulated by Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch, that positions disabled people as expert knowledge-makers and innovative technologists rather than passive recipients of assistive solutions designed by non-disabled professionals. Crip technoscience draws on the political reclamation of the word "crip" from disability culture and examines how disabled people generate technical knowledge through their everyday practices of navigating, adapting, and hacking inaccessible systems. The framework critiques mainstream technology design for treating disability as a problem to be fixed and instead highlights the creative, embodied expertise that emerges from living with disability. In accessibility research, crip technoscience challenges the assumption that innovation flows from designers to disabled users, arguing that disabled people are already innovating and that design processes should recognise and build on this expertise.