8 October 2021

What: Several of the families of disabled claimants whose deaths have been closely linked to DWP’s actions meet for the first time after visiting a pioneering digital exhibition. The Museum of Austerity has used the families’ verbal testimony – and “volumetric capture” techniques that produce high-quality holograms – to recreate the circumstances that led to the deaths of eight claimants in the decade of austerity from 2010.

Why significant: The production – backed by the National Theatre and the English Touring Theatre – uses state-of-the-art technology to tell the stories of some of the disabled victims of austerity, and the launch brings together relatives of some of those who died, for the first time.