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    Train toilets

    A sign inviting passengers not to use the toilet when the train is stationary
  • Gedrag
  • train toilet
  • sewage management
  • piss

  • Up in the air, down to the earth

    The destiny of travellers' pee

    Imagine the situation: you are on a train, on a boat or on a plane and you feel the urge to go to the toilet. You relieve yourself and flush. Wuuush! Your pee is gone. But where, exactly, is it gone?

  • 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...

  • From pee to whisky

    Aged to the right point

    You might have heard of the whisky that was aged in space . Well, it is not the weirdest hard liquor you could get. James Gilpin specialised in the production of a very special whisky, whose main...

  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Eten Marie-Claire Springham

    Making Scents

    Let's change the way we look at body odour.

    Love poet Pablo Neruda described how “better than any word, is the pulse of your scent.” When polishing and perfuming ourselves for a first date, are we missing a trick?

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Rembrandt

    and the pissing farmer's wife

    Many an artist throughout time has touched upon the subject of piss within their works. One of the most notable of these is perhaps Rembrandt van Rijn.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Brigette Bloom

    Pee, soak, dry and use

    A project that started as an accident and ended up being a new way of making pictures personal.

  • 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...

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

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

  • 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...
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pissing in Perfect Cursive

    Lou Buche's Pee-Project

    What may have started as a “seriously drunk” act on a snowy Amsterdam night turned into something much more rousing. For artist Lou Buche, a quick piss stop on the trek home from a drunken night led...

  • 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.

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