Around the Toilet

Title: Around the Toilet

Authors: Yuntong Mu, MingPong Yuen, Kah Kiat Sham, Xiaoyan Huang, Ruiting Liu, Maria Henshall, Yoko Tajima, Nicola Sole, Sukhi Sembi, Robyn Kent and Llinos Glyn

Coordination: Jo Lintonbon

Year: 2015

Location: Nomadic

Client: Around The Toilet

Abstract: The SSoA ‘Around The Toilet’ Live Project group is a multi-disciplinary team of students from Sheffield School of Architecture.

The client, ‘Around the Toilet’, is a cross-disciplinary, arts-based research group that has been exploring the toilet as a place of exclusion and belonging. Researchers on the project are based across three Universities. The research has explored the challenges and politics of access to public toilets for groups such as trans, genderqueer, non-binary people and disabled members of the public through participatory workshops.

The team worked with ‘Around the Toilet’ to spatialise and formalise their research findings into tools that can be used for engaging the public, as well as decision makers, in the future.