Transitioning to adulthood for young disabled people: imagining new futurities while walking-with

From a disability studies perspective, we want to understand how to support young disabled adults to belong in their local community once the postsecondary transition has arrived. The force of imagination in the search for possibilities other than the often-fixed normalised pathways is investigated by looking at some important life events of Wout, a young man with Down Syndrome. The researchers experiment with the method of intuition of Bergson ([1946] Citation1992) by becoming part of the events shared through 'walking-with' Wout. Hereto a tracing-mapping (Lenz Taguchi Citation2016) exercise is followed to explore the open possibilities in Wout's future, particularly in connection to employment. A speculative approach offers a conceptual and practical way to build concrete utopias (Bloch Citation1986) for the inclusive future Wout and his network are shaping.