How has the increase in privacy in bathrooms impacted the stigma around nudity? When did bathrooms start to focus on beauty? How have bathrooms been used to set power dynamics? How has the improvement of the toilet created a disconnect to our environmental impact? How...

Potential Topics 1. How could we show the visibility of the pipe system based on the aesthetics? 2. Since we already known that the bathroom connect to the public pipe system, could we say that the bathroom is the most public area indoor? 3. What is the main...

Potential Topics How have evolution of gendered bathrooms into non gendered bathrooms played a role in their design? How does class continue to play a role in bathrooms? How did bathrooms evolve differently in different cultures over time? How did toilets specifically...

Potential Topics The idea of an all-inclusive restroom & will it ever work. How culture is represented in restrooms around the world, smallest room becomes largest room. Privacy & how restrooms became the unspeakable how that reflects on people good/bad. body...

Topics - Why is the bidet not as commonly used in Western society Topics - Is there a culture that doesn’t view the bathroom as an intimate space Topics - Are bathrooms today not a primary focus of interior architecture  Topics - Were bathrooms ever a status symbol...

Potential Topics How does the role of class play into gendered public bathrooms? When did privacy for bathrooms become the norm? How did the industrial revolution impact toilet and bathroom design? Why was there such inequity between public bathrooms for women vs. men...

Potential Topics Evolution of public to private bathrooms. When and why did public bathrooms start to be designed more privately? To accommodate the wealthy/esteemed? The innovation of stalls in public bathrooms to separate people. When was the advent of separating...

Sanitation within bathrooms and plumbing system Evolution of separation within gender, race, class, and use of a bathroom How the toilet was modernized (What were the first steps into aesthetics, functionality?) What was the turning point into deciding if the bathroom...

Potential Topics Relationship between the cleanliness/hygiene revolution and racism - how that relationship influenced bathroom design in the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. Industrialization and its culture of waste and excess - how that influenced the sanitation...

Potential Topics Gender Neutral Communal Restrooms Larger Bathrooms - Relaxation Spaces rather than just intimate space (especially with covid living in mind) Change in restroom technologies with Covid in mind (everything sensor started rather than by touch) Different...