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  • Vespasian and universal bleach

    Where does the expression “Money doesn't stink” come from?

    While urine-diverting toilets are hitting the headlines as a wonder of innovative technology, collecting urine from public lavatories was a common thing in ancient Rome. Demand for the product was so...

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  • Urine-tricity

    Your pee can power a lightbulb!

    A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.

  • "Urinetown": piss in anti-utopia

    What if in the future we have to pay for peeing?

    In the world where they already trade drinking water and fresh air, such a perspective does not seem at all impossible. Impressed by the system of paid toilets in Europe, American playwright Greg...

  • The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods

    A cultural landmark

    The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...

  • Shoppen met Mirjam

    Online verkiezing van de mooiste nieuwe aanwinst

    Winnaar pitch tijdens KJO1 - Web 2.0 Het Tropenmuseum wil zijn bezoekers mee laten beslissen over welke nieuwe aankoop de collectie gaat verrijken. Via een internetverkiezing, gekoppeld aan een...

  • P for protest

    When a cup of patience overflows, all that remains is to pee.

    The act of peeing on something contains a well-documented symbolic value, which makes it a useful tool for provocation. Urine and feces, hurled at policemen and politicians, is a common thing during...

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...

  • The Dutch Time/Bank Network

    A network of cultural institutions in the Netherlands

    Parallel micro economy based on trust and solidarity as a response to the current distrust of existing financial and economic systems and the radical cuts in art funding

  • The Buddha of the Bathroom, the Baroness and…

    The Dada Queen on liquid creativity

    Tempest Suck / Lip / Quaff / Breath / Squallashed / Skin's / Taste / Let / Me.

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • Inside the curiosity-cabinet of toilets

    A visit to Europe's first toilet museum

    Prague – a flourishing cultural city with a wide range of galleries, museums and art. Since 2014, the city is hosting another attraction: The first European museum of historical toilets and pisspots.

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.

  • Pliny's panacea

    The ancients and pee

    From time immemorial, urine fascinated mankind. People ascribed to it's magic powers, using it to bleach hair, boost crops, perform curses, seduce, and whatnot. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"...

  • Installation

    Miss F. looking for Friends

    Dear Ladys and Gentelman, I would like to initiate a new project called "Miss Francfort", and I´m looking out for suggestions and partners to realize it....

  • Pissing and the public

    Most animals have excretory systems for elimination of soluble wastes. Humans are no different. While we may regard ourselves as much more evolved, in many ways we still resemble all the other...

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...

  • Let's all go Dutch

    Eat bacon pancakes with sugar syrup, talk politics at parties and always start your conversations with a question. What does it mean to be Dutch, exactly? Is it possible to become, or stop being...

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

  • Planet needs your pee!

    urine can save the future of agriculture

    We do not just take a leak. We ruthlessly flush king Solomon’s mines into a toilet bowl. Besides water and urea, human pee contains about 10 precious elements - a few of these being calcium

  • SAVE THE WORLD

    Door TINKEBELL. i.s.m. Mediamatic

    TINKEBELL. geeft met twaalf wereldverspreide interventies inzicht in situaties die kunnen ontstaan wanneer ons wereldbeeld in andere culturen wordt geplaatst. Hiermee stelt zij onze (hulp)norm ter...

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

  • A web native with a sense for the audience

    Frankie Roberto opens ‘Kom je ook?’ 2

    We are proud to present our first keynote speaker at the second edition of Kom je ook? on the 8th of September 2009! Frankie Roberto will present his insights on how museums can interact with their...

  • WatSpinoza? op het Damrak

    Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?

    Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf...

  • On bees and piss

    riddle answer

    Why is a honey bee like a men's urinal? Have you guessed the riddle yet?

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