Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 has the privatization of bathrooms affected the culture around peeing/pooping, a thing everyone does?
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 differences between the recent pipe system and the ancient Roman system mentioned in the video?
- 4. Is there any exact programs or constructions that achieved the “biological organism” idea of Bill Stumpf’s “Metabolic House”?
- 5. The recent architectures are mainly inspired by the Ancient Greek and Roman architectures, but why the requirements of the privacy of bathroom raised dramatically?
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 change technologically that says about how they will change in the future?
- How has privacy influenced the evolution of the bathroom?
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 image.
- COVID and the restroom steps in the future/ public restrooms a thing of the past. Basic need not met
- The system of the toilet and how it works.
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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
Topics – When did the toilet become an intimate space
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 in 19th century England?
- With respect to water shortages, what new toilet and sanitation technologies are modern plumbing and sanitation engineers along with urban planners looking at to resolve the problem?
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 white people and POC in bathrooms? How did this begin?
- The gray area of Western and Eastern/Oriental bathroom cultures. In what instances/trends did the other’s bathroom culture (and the learning of other sanitation/disease theories) begin to be introduced to areas unfamiliar to it? Was there backlash to that?
- Separation of men and women in public bathrooms. Old civilizations used to not care about these social norms in public bathroom spaces, so when and why did this begin?
- Inclusion/activism for gender-neutral bathrooms. When was the first call for gender-neutral bathrooms for non-binary/transgendered/etc, and what pushed that to occur?
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
- 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 was a social or private place?
- When were children expected to be trained into using toilets? What toilets or mechanisms were used to help?
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 system we chose and popularized.
- Class/caste and bathrooms in societies with differing social structures (Ancient Rome, Imperial India, modern US). How did bathrooms express or reinforce class/caste divisions?
- Gender and the bathroom as a social space (“potty parity,” gender norms/stereotypes)
- Toilet training and socialization in modern Western culture. Investigation of the implicit cues children absorb from bathroom design and etiquette that teach them how to behave in bathrooms and society at large.
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
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 Pipe Systems
- Comparison between public restroom design and residential bathroom design
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
Potential Topics
- the toilet and segregation based on race
- the idea of the “ladies room,” in public restrooms, gathering of women to be in secret, safety for women in public restrooms
- how can the toilet evolve into something different and better for the earth and culture of equality we want to shape
- privacy/the unspeakable about toilet behavior and how that shapes the way we feel about our bodies and their functions
- the influence of gendering toilets for LGBTQ+, and women and how it related to privilege
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
Potential Topics:
- What is the difference between public and private in modern day than in other times?
- When was the shift of cleaning added to the bathroom and the toilet.
- Was there always a separation of bathrooms by sex, or when did it originate? / Are there cultures that don’t?
- What made the push for modern day’s belief of “flush and forget?”
- How does comfort change in the bathroom over time? In some bathrooms there are even televisions.
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
Five Potential Topics:
- The history of race and restrooms in America: from slavery to Jim Crow
- Are gendered restrooms a thing of the past? How bathrooms might respond to a non-binary inclusive society
- Bathrooms around the world, what our restrooms say about our culture
- The fight for Disability rights in America’s restrooms
- How science has changed the interior architecture of modern bathrooms over time
Jan 11, 2021 | Questions |
Potential Topics
- Transition from public to private bathing culture.
- The ways in which bathroom designs have highlighted the infrastructure.
- The ways in which bathroom designs have hidden the infrastructure.
- Toilets as a display of social status.
- The evolution of size in toilet rooms.
Jan 10, 2021 | Questions |
Potential Topics
- How can we improve the water efficiency of toilets?
- The evolution of how the bathroom became an elegant space?
- How does the bathroom interact with the outside world?
- How did the general public react to the first public restrooms?
- What were the defining design moments leading up to the modern bathroom?