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Related term papersPublic toilets through the lens of Menstrual EquityGendered Privacy Examination of Architectural Divisions in American Public BathroomsArt of the Public Restroom  Divided We Sit How bathrooms are a metaphor for societal standards and...

Ergonomics In The Bathroom

Scroll down to find out more!The Essay CollectionThe Essay Collection: Ergonomics in the BathroomIn this set of two beautiful essays, one will discover how culture has influenced how all people interact with having to go to the restroom. We will specifically analyze...

Bathroom Practices

Bathroom Practices

Public toilets  https://www.history.com/news/toilet-paper-hygiene-ancient-rome-chinaBathroom Practices      The way that people have used the bathroom has changed throughout time. Traces back to the earliest times when castles had drop towers to...

Toilets

Toilets

Why Toilets?Sara Mohamed         The purpose of this study was to explore the different terms/phrases and proverbs for the word “toilet” in cultures around the world. Toilets are a daily necessity that humans rely on to cleanse their bodies from all the waste that has...

The Toilet’s Evolution

The Toilet’s Evolution

The Toilet's EvolutionCamille BrandtToilets are one of the main fixtures that is located within a bathroom, however, it has not always been a common practice to include a toilet in a home. This research focuses on how the bathroom has been transformed after many years...

Ancient Greek & Roman Latrines

Ancient Greek & Roman Latrines

Final Post Final Post#Kelly DeLor  The main focus of the research project was learning how Ancient Romans and Greeks incorporated toilets within their culture and how it was done. I first looked into how water was distributed to the toilets, as we learned how...

Baths, Bathrooms, Bathhouses, OH MY!

Baths, Bathrooms, Bathhouses, OH MY!

Baths, BAthrooms, Bathhouses, OH MY!  The development of ancient toilets although may sound uninteresting is one of the most evolutionary aspects of ancient life. Ancient toilet designs were made for functional reasons rather than aesthetics and privacy much like...

MAPS + TIMELINES

wHAT IS WHERE AND WHEN IS WHAT?SEE WHERE ANCIENT TOILET AND TOILET PRACTICES WERE LOCATED!THE EVOLUTION OF TOILETS AND SANITATION TIMELINEBATHHOUSE GALORE AND MORE!BATHHOUSE TRADITIONS AND EXCPETIONS

The Ancient Toilet vs. Modernity

The Ancient Toilet vs. Modernity

The ancient toilet vs. modernity then and now | nicole jackson Marley's Monsters Eco-Shop Project With consideration of the needs of Marley’s Monsters Eco-Shop, the overall interest in promoting a sustainable lifestyle within the community and to others who are...

Ancient Toilets + Toilet Habits

Ancient Toilets + Toilet Habits

Ancient Toilet + Toilet Habits   Nicole jackson Health in Society Many architects as well as interior architects today use past innovative and traditional ideas as an example of what can be taken or added for a design concept. It comes to question as to how these...

Is It Just Toilet?

Is It Just Toilet?

ProverbsDo we all refer to the same bathroom? Do all cultures have the same perspectives about bathroom?   Bathrooms Have Traditions? Every country has its traditions and cultures that they follow and believe strongly in. these traditions range from food, holidays to...

Evolution of Toilets in the 1800’s

Evolution of Toilets in the 1800’s

The bathroom fixtures have had many forms as well as uses throughout its early development. From the early idea of a faucet to the toilet itself, it has had many social and functional tasks associated with it. Through the 1800’s, the toilet evolved in order to...

The Tale of the Bathroom and the ConsumerYash Akhouri  The bathroom has seen many transitional phases in design, purpose and importance. From being a space that was left to outhouses to a heart-like feature for the home and then a more serviceable space it has...

Art of the Public Restroom

Art of the Public Restroom

Introduction Architecture and art are reflections of cultures on the historical timeline. They reveal a society’s values, attitudes and way of life that are particular to that culture in a specific era. A lens can be more directly focused on a society when looking at...

Latrines and Their Locations on a Roman Map

Latrines and Their Locations on a Roman Map

The Roman latrine was a community space that allowed people to not only relieve themselves while on the go, but also invited people to connect socially and travel the grounds. The latrine was built by local materials, natural water sources and plumbing. Channels of...

Women’s Role in the Bathroom

Women’s Role in the Bathroom

The role of women in the bathroom, while it has progressed over the decades, has not seen significant strides in eliminating their association from domestic chores. Already, until the Victorian era there were few motions to add public bathrooms accommodating both men...

Metabolic Toilet in a Capsule

Metabolic Toilet in a Capsule

Toilets in Capsules During the Metabolism Movement Elena KatoSummary The phrases “metabolism” and “capsule” was coined during a post-WWII Japanese movement by architect Kisho Kurokawa in the 1960s. Somewhat similar to the Arts and Crafts movement in the late...

Toilets And Bathroom in Medieval England and France

Toilets And Bathroom in Medieval England and France

Du Barry's BathroomThe Delights of Bathing In the Royal Palaces of FranceFrom the 17th century, royal members in France palaces enjoyed the delights of bathing. Royal members and their designers had a huge number of ideas to satisfy the using and feeling experiences....

Toilets in Medieval England

Toilets in Medieval England

Medieval London started like most societies with little technology for sewer systems. This leads to many unique and interesting ways to alleviate waste in day to day life. Many of these ways included Latrines that were over flowing water, cesspools and many other...

Waste Control in Paris

Waste Control in Paris

AbstractThe following essays analyze the different ways in which waste has been controlled in the city of Paris, France from the sewage systems of the Industrial Revolution to the open-air urinals in modern-day Paris. Research from multiple primary sources uncovered a...

W9-UG-Phase-2 Research

W9-UG-Phase-2 Research

The volcano Vesuvius, south of Naples, is one of the most brutal volcanoes in most people's memory, and became famous for the eruption in 79 A.D. that destroyed the three bustling Roman towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia in quick succession. The scenes of life...

The Death of Odor

The Death of Odor

An Analysis of Reducing Stench Through Bathroom Design1. Privy cleaners cleaning out a full cesspool. (Wright)In medieval times, prior to the advent of closed sewer systems and indoor flush toilets, latrines in both the private and public sphere dealt with the issue...

W6- Web-blog post

W6- Web-blog post

Just doing some research and through my own experience, the toilet makes more sense from a privacy, safety, and efficiency stand point as a unisex design, especially when does in a specific way. The best use of a unisex bathroom I could find was the use of individual...

Early Stages of Bathroom Accessibility for Women

Early Stages of Bathroom Accessibility for Women

Line for Women's Bathroom (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/573005/womens-bathroom-lines-dont-need-to-be-so-long)A long history follows bathroom inequality when it comes to serving men versus women. Up until the Victorian era, there was little to no signs of having...

Evolution of the Japanese Bathhouses and Rituals in Japan

There is a lot of interesting History in the role of bathhouses in Japanese culture that dates back to ancient times all the way to modern times. We hope to research and focus on specific historic bathhouses that set the stage for centuries-long rituals.   In this...

Paris and it’s Sewage System

Paris and it’s Sewage System

Paris Waste IssueThroughout history Paris has had a waste issue, and this issue still exists today. For centuries Parisians would relieve themselves directly onto the street whenever necessary. This results in foul odors and unclean streets, an undesirable trait for a...

Le Corbusier: Transforming the Modern Bathroom

Le Corbusier: Transforming the Modern Bathroom

  SUMMARY by sam backen “Transforming the Bathroom : Perriand and Le Corbusier" By Arthur Ruegg Of all the inventions in the modern bathroom, the bidet stood out as Le Corbusier's favorite and most inspired sanitary device. To Corbusier, the bidet was so special...

Bathrooms in 10 Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright

Bathrooms in 10 Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright

10 Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright Yash Akhouri   Through the analysis of the 10 most famous houses designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright(1867- 1959), we are able to see how the bathroom is designed or moved about the house to occupy various spaces and to join...

Water Imperial Laws in Japan

Water Imperial Laws in Japan

Public Goods, Private Claims, and Legal Convergence INTRODUCTIONYojimbo is a concept that describes the way private property and rare resources are not enforced by public authority. Japanese Imperial water laws go from a free-for-all grab of resources and water supply...

How Do YOU Poop?

How Do YOU Poop?

This essay focuses on the ergonomics of toilets, and restroom using. It looks specifically into how the western throne style was developed and who the main influencers in history were for this design. The essay also discusses how these historical influencers may have also been contributors to the taboos that exist today around talking about poop. Next, the essay looks at the implications that have arose because of these taboos that have prevented us from openly discussing sanitation and the work that is being done today by individuals such as Jack Sim (Mr. Toilet Man) to combat those.

Buddha and the Bathwater

Buddha and the Bathwater

The term “Engi” has had multiple different iterations of its meaning across time and space. The Engi of Onsenji and many other temples with healing waters is a translation of religious texts that show the overcoming of human suffering (Moerman, 74). This post will...

Clean Bathroom And Dirty Street

Clean Bathroom And Dirty Street

Have you ever taken an old-style train before?  When I was a child, for some reason, my mom took me to Beijing every week by old-style train. And the bathroom on the train is one of the scariest “nightmares” in my childhood. It’s basically just a toilet with a hole...

“Worms eat my…poop?”

“Worms eat my…poop?”

 Figure 1. Earthworms in compost The Wonder of Vermicomposting (fig. 1) By Jenna WheelerMany years ago, when I was a wide-eyed idealist, I embraced what my parents regarded as an alternative lifestyle.  I was vegetarian, insisted on eating all organic foods, and was...

Cholera in Naples, 19th Century

Cholera in Naples, 19th Century

In Naples, Italy, Cholera first made its appearance on the harbor where people from all over the world would arrive. This bacteria could easily live in passengers guts, on their clothes, in their bed linens, etc. The first cases in Naples appeared in people who had...

Avoidance in the You-Know-Where

Avoidance in the You-Know-Where

Euphemisms: Mentioning the Unmentionable Euphemism is a linguistic tool that allows a speaker to refer indirectly to a culturally taboo, sensitive, or embarrassing subject. Using conventional euphemisms, speakers can make themselves understood while avoiding...

Ladies and Disabled Toilets

Ladies and Disabled Toilets

Ladies and Disabled Toilets The sign says it all. A grouping together that is far from dignifying to people with disabilities and to women. In the Chapter ‘Pissing without Pity: Disability, Gender, and the Public Toilet, David Serlin argues that the gendering of...

Inspecting the past, ignoring the present

We are living in a time in America in which we pride ourselves on striving for equality. Women are fighting to be paid the same as men, a conversation about racial equality took center stage this part year, and non-heterosexual or fluid sexual orientations are widely...

Fountain’s Queer History

Fountain’s Queer History

Fountain’s Queer HistoryMarcel Duchamp not only challenged the art world in 1917 with his “readymade” urinal entitled Fountain, he intended to confront society’s feelings about homosexuality. By signing the inverted urinal with a pseudonym R. Mutt and submitting it to...

Parasites & the Potty

Parasites & the Potty

PARASITES & THE POTTY YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE EXPOSED TO.Ancient toilets and their sanitation issues "[M]odern studies have shown that sharing latrinesmay actually be worse for the spread of disease than alack of latrines." - Marissa L. Ledger     ...

W6-UG-weblog

W6-UG-weblog

Three Tired old MenDuring my research I had so much fun learning about other languages and culture. I’ve always been interested in learning languages and I’m always on the look to learn new words. One of the things that I have learned during my research is the origin...

Toilet Bowl Reflections of Two Cultures

Toilet Bowl Reflections of Two Cultures

No two cultures may have as much in common regarding consumerism as America and Japan, but their similarities stop at the bathroom door. Both societies embrace a 21st century addiction to consumerism and keeping up to date with the latest technology and design in the...

Rest Area Hobbyist

Rest Area Hobbyist

Are you wondering how I came up with this topic to research? It's a long story, but not as long as some of the drives that influenced this idea. My first cross country drive was when I moved to Oregon in the summer of 2018 to start my master's of interior architecture...

Stand Tall

Stand Tall

Stand TallIn The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir discusses the messages that potty training sends young girls. She writes, “To urinate, she is required to crouch, uncover herself, and therefore hide: a shameful and inconvenient procedure” (Beauvoir, 301-4). Seated and...

On pondering female urinals

On pondering female urinals

Figure 1. Placards of a boy and a girl peeing I never really challenged the sitting posture endemic to the western world’s standard mode of urinating for women.  I accepted it as a comfortable way to relieve myself, having been taught this long-standing (or should I...

Public Toilets + Gender Discrimination

Public Toilets + Gender Discrimination

Public Toilets + Gender Discrimination mnt Offensive restroom signs that make a joke of and dehumanize trans and non-binary individuals.Public toilets have a rich and disturbing history of being used as a means of social control, upholding social norms that otherize...

Progress of Toilet Sewage Systems

Progress of Toilet Sewage Systems

Progress of Toilet Sewage SytemsLeilani Kane  Reflection on Phase One Research This research information was interesting in learning about the different sewage systems in not only the past but other cultures. The systems that they have and use influence the type...

Not Just Men or Women

Not Just Men or Women

Not Just Men or WomenElena KatoGender-neutral toilet signs with multiple icons to signify the variety of people who may use the toilet.Public places should be a safe space; for some, it is their only safe space. Public bathrooms should be even more safer as it is a...

Ancient + Traditional Toilets

Ancient + Traditional Toilets

ANCIENT + TRADITIO-NAL TOILETStoi·let/toilit/nounA fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of alarge bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer or septic tank. an·cient/an(t)Shint/adjectiveBelonging...

20th Century’s Sexualized, Ego-Boosting Male Restrooms

20th Century’s Sexualized, Ego-Boosting Male Restrooms

Within the last couple centuries, male restrooms have taken a new turn. Jude Mariutto draws research from­­ Lachmann, Bernier-Cast, and Rubel discussing this 20th century addition to male restrooms, called Carnivalesque Restrooms. This modern design of male restrooms...

Archaeological Evidence of Toilet System

Archaeological Evidence of Toilet System

Archaeological Evidence of Toilet Systems Toilet practice has a very close correlation to people’s everyday living no matter what time period one is in. Analyzing a bathroom and its characteristics can tell how life, societal norms, religious values, and habits were...

EVOLUTION OF TOILETS THROUGH THE MILLENNIA

EVOLUTION OF TOILETS THROUGH THE MILLENNIA

EVOLUTION OF TOILETS THROUGH THE MILLENNIASomething most people don't realize or think about is that toilets have evolved a lot over the last couple centuries. This article helps summarize some of the most popular and innovative in Ancient Civilizations. After...

Sustainable Toilets of the Future

Sustainable Toilets of the Future

Sustainable Toilets for the FutureBrandon Volpicelli  "Green Toilet" https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/sustainable-toilets/IntroductionThis highly studied entity that follows with human existence is the necessity to defecate. As we know from lectures, it dates...

The Fourth Toilet Revolution

The Fourth Toilet Revolution

I was both shocked and amazed by the means and consciousness of mankind's treatment of sanitation systems from the Roman city of Pompeii up to the time of the Industrial Revolution.In 500 B.C., the first drainage system was built in the city of Rome. These pipes were...

To squat or not? Global perspectives on the toilets

To squat or not? Global perspectives on the toilets

To squat or not? This is such an interesting concept as the squatting techniques not only has effects on the digestive system but also has cultural implications. The throne toilet is a very western and European concept as it was first seen in Roman and English...

Equality in Public Restroom

Public restrooms are meant to be used by the general public. However, at times they may be exclusive to certain groups of the public, whether intentionally or not. After reading classmate’s essays on “Open-air Urinals in Paris” and “How Society’s View on Gender Has...

On Toilet Positions

On Toilet Positions

The various positions to relieve oneself that are popular around the world each have their benefits and theories as to why they are widely used. These positions can be based on sex, health benefits, and even religion. While researching the Paris open-air urinals known...

Ancient Toilets + Toilet Habits

Ancient Toilets + Toilet Habits

Ancient Toilets and Toilet HabitsHealth in Society       Many architects as well as interior architects today use past innovative and traditional ideas as an example of what can be taken or added for a design concept. It comes to question as to how these ideas...

Latrines in Medieval and Pre-Industrial England

Latrines in Medieval and Pre-Industrial England

An account of the accessibility, odor, and sanitation of latrines throughout the 15th-18th c. in primarily London and the surrounding areas.  Plaque advertising fosses mobiles or transportable privies. (Fantelin)IntroductionIn medieval London, prior to the advent...

Equality | Women and the Restroom

Equality | Women and the Restroom

The relationship that women share with the restroom is perhaps a deeper and more personal one than that of men. This notion is especially true when talking about menstruating women, and the unique needs that they have while using the restroom; but equally true for any...

Sustainability in Bathrooms

Sustainability in Bathrooms

We have discussed the evolution of the bathroom and the history behind its major shifts. I’m curious about the direction the bathroom is headed in the future and if there are any sustainable fixes that can benefit our environment. The amount of waste that comes from a...