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  • Image: Julia Veldhuijzen van Zanten

    Washable textile protective underwear

    Julia Veldhuijzen van Zanten designed textile protective underwear to tackle the problem of incontinence in the case of elderly people. Her solution addresses the emotional side of this bodily...
  • material experimentation
  • washable protective underwear
  • incontinence
  • elderly
  • stigma
  • social research
  • Design

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...
  • Project: Anna Pedersen

    GoGirl

    Don't take life sitting down

    Life's greatest adventure shouldn't be finding a bathroom. GoGirl is the feminine urination device that lets you go anywhere. Simply put, a GoGirl is a way to stand up to crowded, disgusting, distant...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • DIY Female Urination Device

    Mediamatic's Own Version of the FUD

    A DIY template for those unequipped to pee standing up.

  • Take the piss and make some art

    The multifarious presence of urine in artworks

    Most people think of art as a refined practice that has nothing to do with humble elements. Yet, sometimes artists can be very down-to-earth. Or, rather, they are able to turn base material such as...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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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