CripShip is a tabletop role-playing game that transforms lived experiences of disability into a space for resistance, collaboration, and new ways of thinking.

The game focuses on questioning and resisting certain kinds of AI. Players roleplay as employees of a fictional government agency called the ‘Ministry of AI Spills’. Each gaming session unfolds as a collective act of storytelling and improvisation. In CripShip’s world, unrestricted AI policies create misinformation, biases, and harmful ideas that spread through society. As ‘Slop Moppers’, players investigate and resist these AI failures. Guided by a storyteller, they pick a real-world-inspired case and collectively decide how best to counter it.

CripShip is rooted in disabled imagination. It creates worlds from lived experiences that challenge ableist systems of time, efficiency, and progress. By embracing the unique perspectives that come from living with disability, players transform these experiences into gameplay hacks and design intelligence that can save the world. The game asks us to rethink how we see disability and what we can learn from it. It also questions the idea that constant technological progress is always good.
By exposing the limitations of AI tools, Joseph shows that they are neither magical nor neutral - they are shaped by the intentions and biases of their creators. CripShip confronts these systems with playfulness, curiosity, and critical thinking.

The work reimagines this part of the gallery as the ‘Ministry of AI Spills’ headquarters. Here you can browse the cases under investigation, hear from the Ministry’s Head of Department, and prepare to join the AI resistance by creating your own ‘Slop Mopper’ character. CripShip turns imagining better worlds into a shared act of creation. In this sense, to play is already to resist: to play is to act.