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  • Image: Xiang Yu Yeung

    A "public urinal"

    Identifying possible areas in Dijkspark for public peeing facilities
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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Weewee-fighting-prince

    When pee caused scandal and inspired a game

    Have you ever heard of “Pipi-Prügel-Prinz”? Or now that you have read the name are you wondering what that is and are you willing to find out? Spoiler: it's an online game, but it's inspired by a...

  • P-TREE

    The tree hugging urinal

    With public urination becoming an increasing problem, designer Sam van Veluw of AANDEBOOM has created a mobile solution for festivals and the likes.

  • 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...

  • What makes urine a turn on?

    Talking about golden showers with Mistress Kalyss Mercury

    Water sports are still a taboo. You don't find many people who are willing to discuss the subject. Kalyss Mercury is an exception. Professional dominatrix for years and kink research pioneer, she has...

  • Obsessed with urination

    Two men who turned pee into a subject of art

    Urination as both a bodily function and a social practice may prove fascinating for some people. At least, it was for the artists Charles Demuth and Boris O'Klein. The former treated the act of...

  • Pee lust

    Speaking of water sports – but not the summery ones

    On this blog we want to go beyond social taboos and question fixed categories, besides, of course, discussing any possible aspects regarding pee. Thus, little by little, we got there too: sexual...

  • Gilbert & George's bodily pictures

    Spunk, blood, piss, shit, spit

    A piece about two artists who challenged taboos and social “diktats” by magnifying the sometimes disgusting materiality of the body

  • Painting in pee

    Warhol's Oxidations

    Made up of soft coppery yellows, oranges, blacks and greens, the pools and drips of Andy Warhol's oxidized works represent quite a different take on the artist, than his (in)famous pop-art. The...

  • Kegel and Elvie: what do these names mean?

    You can now train you pelvic floor muscles in a technologically proofed way

    In an age when exotic sports become more and more common and everyone tries out pilates, yoga and tai chi, a new frontier has been set. It goes under the label Kegel exercise (or pelvic floor...

  • Pee, where do you come from?

    All you need to know if you have ever wondered about the etymology of such a common word

    We have been talking about pee and urine, but we haven't looked at the origin of these words yet. It's now time to fill the gap with some etymological insights.

  • Pis’

    In art history

    From ancient to contemporary art, urine in art depicts both the micro-narratives of personal stories and the meta-narratives of the ever evolving world. The depiction and relation to urine and...

  • The curious case of peeing Calvin decals

    A controversial image that has run through the decades

    You have probably seen it in the shape of a sticker or printed on a t-shirt, but maybe you don't know its history. Did Watterson draw it? Where did the meme start? Are the “spin-offs” illegal? And...

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