Cripping digital equity in the Greek cultural sector
Focused on Greece, this project responds to an urgent, ongoing need, as digital equity remains largely unattained for disabled communities. Exclusion persists through unequal access to digital tools, misrepresentation, limited institutional capacity for inclusive design, and fragmented support systems across cultural, educational, and governmental sectors. National digital transformation (Greece 2.0) is not integrating disability-led perspectives, reproducing inequalities rather than addressing them. In this context, community-led and co-designed interventions are essential to ensure that disabled people are active agents shaping inclusive digital futures. This challenge is further compounded by the lack of consolidated knowledge, resources for disability heritage, and clear guidelines – requiring communities to continually reinvent both tools and collective will.
Greece 3.0 builds on the community and methodology developed through previous initiatives in which disabled and non-disabled participants examined digital equity from a holistic perspective. Initially, the team explored digital equity through the lens of disability and identified a persistent gap between disabled communities and the public sphere, as mediated through digital infrastructures. This phase revealed not only the shortcomings of institutional practices, but also the ways in which existing digital systems and governance models systematically exclude disabled individuals. The subsequent project focused on the relationships between communities, public-sector institutions and civic identity. It examined how digital technologies shape lived experiences of disability, accessibility, and inclusion. Participants articulated the forms of change required to achieve genuine digital equity and envisioned a holistic, accessible digital future. In doing so, they assumed institutional roles and proposed structural transformations, while digital tools functioned as enablers of community-led innovation.
Building on community co-produced knowledge, the project advances from articulation to advocacy and civic action for systemic change through a reciprocal co-learning phase, resulting in concrete institutional outcomes, including a practical manual for achieving digital equity through a queer/Crip, community-rooted framework.
Team
Thomas Diafas – Artist, cultural manager and educator
Marilena Koukouli – Programmes Manages, Liminal
Christos Papamichael – Founder/Director, Liminal