Intimacy exposed : toilet, bathroom, restroom / scientific committee editors: Dr Javier Fernández Contreras, Dr Roberto Zancan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fernández Contreras, Javier, 1982- editor.

Zancan, Roberto, editor.

Haute école d'art et de design (Geneva, Switzerland)

Conference Name:

Intimacy Exposed: Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom (2018 : Geneva, Switzerland)

Series:

Column ; Issue 1 (2023)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toilets--Design and construction--Catalogs.

Toilets.

Bathrooms--Design and construction--Catalogs.

Bathrooms.

Bathrooms--Design and construction.

Toilets--Design and construction.

Genre:

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

109 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 30 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Toilet, bathroom, restroom

Place of Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2023]

Summary:

The analysis of sanitary spaces and places dedicated to personal care, as in a privacy observatory, helps with the in-depth assessment of social changes, allowing us to determine how the lives of users can be improved, how conflicts of use in public places can be resolved between populations of different sexes and ages, and how the quality of public and private health can be enhanced. Observing these issues pushes us to explore the forms and meanings of bathrooms and private spaces in relation to their different functions, including those of transgressive and informal meeting places and spaces of inevitable and forced social coexistence. This book constitutes a new step in this field of research, presenting a series of scientific and artistic interventions that proves the diverse range of uses to which 'wet rooms' can be put in social life, the evolution of the use of furniture, and the new meanings of details and objects in domestic bathrooms and public toilets. The texts, largely written for the 2018 symposium Intimacy Exposed: Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom (organised by the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD - Genève) present a practice-based study of the recent past of modernist technologies and a vision of the future of personal and collective practices regarding the realm of the toilet.

Contents:

Intimacy exposed : an introduction to the study of toilets, bathrooms, and restroom / Javier Fernández Contreras and Roberto Zancan

Modern plumbing / Alexandra Midal

On displacement : toilets are very special places / Michael Jakob

A bathroom for a dancer / Catherine Ince

Popular hygiene (nothing fancy) / Mariana Siracusa

From stud to stalled! Social equity and public restrooms / Joel Sanders

Gradual intimacy / Philippe Rahm

Undressing methodologies / Louise Lemoine and Ila Bêka

Down the hall to the right? A glimpse into Le Corbusier's bathrooms / Andrés García Pruñonosa

Spot on / Josiane Imhasly

Stone in the bathroom : an attempt to control the blue / Jérôme Nager

Rotor : seven tales about toilets / Renaud Haerlingen

Devices, spaces, actions and places for body care : elii's works through toilets / Eva Gil Lopesino

(Verifica incerta)... Into the hole / Roberto Zancan.

Notes:

"This publication is the result of the international conference Intimacy Exposed: Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom which was held at HEAD - Genève in December 2018."--Back flap.

Statement of responsibility from back flap.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783959055833

3959055838

OCLC:

1370622426