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  • Afbeelding: Xiang Yu Yeung

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    Exploring the area around Mediamatic in order to identify site-specific qualities and get started with culture design. Exploring the area around Mediamatic
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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cleantech Playground

    A technical and environmental system for De Ceuvel

    The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a planned sustainable, cleantech utility at De Ceuvel in the North of Amsterdam. The project contains land-based offices and a commercial park, Café De Ceuvel, and a...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • The toilet is the origin of our sexuality

    A Piss Manifest by Mischa Badasyan

    A typology of public toilet visitors? It exists. It is the work of the Berlin-based artist Mischa Badasyan. For two years he observed and classified users of public toilets in different countries.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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