© klo:lektiv

publication

IncLoo*sive architectures

ARCH+  05/2023
in the context of the German Pavillion “Open for Maintainance - Wegen Umbau geöffnet” of the 18th Architecture Biennale 2023 in Venice

ISBN 9783931435752

author collectiv Rosa Loo*

*  Sabine Bongers-Römer
    Katharina Ciax
    Martine Kayser 
    Sina Kamala Kaufmann
    Stefan Karlowsky
    Ariane Krause
    Johanna Moser
    Michel Riechmann
    Eleftheria Xenikaki

Peeing* is political! Sanitary facilities are an essential infrastructural part of everyday life. They provide the opportunity to fulfill the basic sanitary needs of urinating and defecating, have an influence on the kind, quality, and radius of activities people can undertake, and constitute a precondition for participating in both private and public life. However, they are often taken for granted and their importance is only registered when they are unusable, unavailable or inaccessible. When planning and managing buildings and public spaces, sanitary facilities are rarely considered as core infrastructure to be designed for and by society.

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https://archplus.net/de/archiv/ausgabe/252/

https://archplus.net/de/projekte/

publication

Bathroom readings
 

in the context of the “wash room” in the German Pavillion “Open for Maintainance - Wegen Umbau geöffnet” at the 18th biennale for architecture in Venice 2023

author collective Rosa Loo*

*  Sabine Bongers-Römer
    Katharina Ciax
    Martine Kayser 
    Sina Kamala Kaufmann
    Stefan Karlowsky
    Ariane Krause
    Johanna Moser
    Michel Riechmann
    Eleftheria Xenikaki

Bathroom readings is a digital collection of texts on the interesting topic of inclusive and resource-saving sanitation and the sustainable circular economy. Moreover, it is a digital offer to delve deeper into the topic of the sanitation and nutrient transition.

Scientists, activists, designers, artists and many other stakeholders closely worked together to create the sanitary space in the German Pavilion. In addition to the installations in the pavilion itself and an article in ARCH+, we now present a digital best of innovative ideas, solutions and visionary concepts for the sanitation and nutrient transition.

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https://www.naehrstoffwende.org/klo-lektuere/

https://archplus.net/de/projekte/

© Maria Arndt

editorial

Peeing* is policial: 
feminist and critical-geographic perspecive on sanitary infrastrucutres

Feministische GeoRundmail No. 84
Dezember 2020

Rosa Aue
Sabine Bongers-Römer
Katharina Ciax
Martine Kayser
Lilith Kuhn
Christina Peklo  

 

In this issue of Feministische GeoRundmail, we would like to introduce you to the geographies of necessity. We share the view of Leslie Kern, who writes: "the bathroom-or the lack of a bathroom-generates all kinds of questions about safety, accessibility, gender, sexuality, class, homelessness, race and more" (Kern 2020: 106). This issue aims to provide an impetus to discuss geographies of need from feminist and critical perspectives.

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https://ak-feministische-geographien.org/die-neue-feministische-georundmail-zum-thema-pissen-ist-politisch-ausgabe-nr-84-ist-da/

© Maria Arndt

publication

Necessary Infrastructures: Public Toilets between Neoliberalization and Utopia

Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Würtemberg,  Stuttgart 2022
Bürger & Staat - Heft 1/2 2022
Öffentliche Infrastrukturen. Die politische Gestaltung der vernetzen Gesellschaft.

ISSN 0007–3121

Lilith Kuhn
Martine Kayser
Rosa Aue
Sabine Bongers-Römer

Hardly any other human need is so little discussed in the context of public infrastructures as the need to urinate. A look at urban planning and development shows that the use and provision of public toilets has changed: while they were once considered an important part of municipal services, they are increasingly privatized or closed under tight budgetary constraints today. The scarce provision of public toilets reinforces the discrimination of people who are particularly dependent on sanitary infrastructures in public spaces. With the concept of the "right to infrastructure", the contribution by Lilith Kuhn, Martine Kayser, Rosa Aue and Sabine Bongers-Römer takes up these de_privileging structures and counters them with emancipatory demands. Building on this, the "loo:topies" they present in conclusion provide utopian food for thought for the design not only of socially just but also ecologically sustainable infrastructures.

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https://www.lpb-bw.de/publikation3601

© kon-paper

Publication

>> I want!<< A toilet manifesto

[kon] Paper 
No. 10 2023
RAUM (space)

Rosa Aue
Sabine Bongers-Römer
Katharina Ciax
Martine Kayser 
Lilith Kuhn
   

...I want toilets to be included in architecture and urban planning, I want bright washrooms, I want lights, I want a changing table, I want a nursing couch for adults, I want a working door lock, I want a squat toilet, I want an all-gender urinal and a sit-down toilet...

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https://kon-paper.com/project/ausgabe-raum