In a community center in Glasgow, Scotland, a young person on a makeshift stage faces a group of city council staff. He has just performed a scene in which he cannot enter a park near his home because the surrounding sidewalks don’t have accessible curb cuts; he is a wheelchair user.

In a school gym in New York City in 2014, a group of LGBTQ youth performed a play they had devised based on their daily realities. In the opening scene, a transgender woman experienced a domestic dispute; neighbours overheard and called the police.

How do we, as citizens, begin to participate in designing and changing policy, before we are able to articulate the relationship between what we experience in our daily lives, and the laws, rules and designs that impact those experiences?