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Mastering the class

Christian Pagh explaining the notions of space branding and culture design

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Public pee'ers and park lovers, heads-up!

One effective Masterclass to make a difference: Pissing in the Park

8 engaged participants, one top designer, one case study and one unique challenge: these were the ingredients of last Friday's Masterclass with Christian Pagh. Here at Mediamatic we are working to...
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.
Intimate Currency

Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
Architecture of Crisis

Mr.Takeshita and Dr. Oike on water purification technologies and biomimicry

Can we change the paradigm in which the toilet is ‘wet’ and the cleaning is ‘dry’? In many areas on Earth people cannot reach drinkable water. At the same time the Western World is still using the...
DIY Female Urination Device

Mediamatic's Own Version of the FUD

A DIY template for those unequipped to pee standing up.
About the Pis’ Project

2014-2016

The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...
26 Bathrooms and 6 Apartments

Cinematography notes on the Toilet

''It was an affectionate, ironical, critical look at bathroom design - it is not only what people put in their bathrooms, but also what people do in their bathrooms, which is the secret room of the...
How about human hair for mass production?

British designer Ellie Birkhead uses local human hair to make region-specific bricks.

What if we could use human hair to replace finite materials used in building houses? Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ellie Birkhead decided to experiment with this idea. Birkhead is the developer...
It's Electric!

Electric pee in Rio de Janeiro

Every year the city of Rio de Janeiro has to deal with the same reoccurring problem. The many people at the Carnival pee in the streets. With this in mind, AfroReggae and JWT came up with a way to...
The Big Blue

Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation

Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...
Urinal melodies with Guitar Pee

Playing guitar had never been that easy

If you have ever dreamt of playing guitar without using your hands or if your most secret desire is to create melodies with unconventional tools, you can hope your chance will come again: in 2012
Prope(e)r

Portable urinals for women.

Shout out to all the ladies out there! Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you've really had "to go" and there as not been a convenient bathroom within reach? Maybe you were on a road...
When can we start to objectify our hair?

Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...
Potty Parity: what does it mean?

And why are there always queues in front of women's restrooms?

The lack of equal access to toilets is considered by some a subtle form of discrimination against women. It may be culturally embedded rather than consciously pursued, yet it is still there. Here is...
The Chair That Bleeds

The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim

We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...
Getting Drunk From Saliva

Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer

Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.
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.
Julia's washable protective underwear

Don't let incontinence stop you

Adults' incontinence is a common problem which challenges one's emotional and physical well-being, and disposable diapers aren't a comfortable solution. In order to enable incontinent people to...
Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out

Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina

What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...
Male urination in trains

Findings from “Hygienic Train Toilet”

Why are train toilets used only in case of emergency? Why are they perceived as unpleasant, unhygienic places? What does this have to do with male urination? And how can design be used to improve the...
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...
Peter Trimble

Furniture made out of sand, urine and bacteria.

Did you ever wonder about the power of your pee? Peter Trimble did. For his thesis project he investigated the possibilities of bacteria and the urea found in urine. What he found was a way to...
This is lady p

The female urinal created by Marian Loth

Designing a female urinal is not a simple mission, establishing its use is even more complicated. During her Master's Marian Loth took up the challenge and offered a viable solution which was...
Disruptive nightlights

A fluorescent stand against public urination

Putting a rather lustrous spotlight on a seemingly unnoticed problem in Madrid, Luzinterruptus took it upon themselves to draw attention to some people's use of the public spaces as personal...

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