NonA Weekly: FUTURE TOILET 🚽
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Dear readers and friends,
Toilets 🚽 are a fundamental part of modern sanitation, and their design ✍️ has remained relatively unchanged for decades ⌛. However, with the rise 📈 of new technologies 🤖 and the increasing focus on sustainability ♻️ and hygiene, the future of toilet design is set to be a lot more innovative 🧪 and sophisticated. The future of toilet design 🔮 is about improving functionality ⚙️, enhancing user experience 🧍, and making toilets more aesthetically pleasing ✨. As such, we can expect to see more innovative designs 🤯 and creative solutions that meet the needs and expectations of the modern user.
1. TEN INVENTIVE TOILET DESIGNS THAT RETHINK 🧠 THE CONVENTIONAL LOO
In recent years, DESIGNERS have come up with numerous ideas 💡 for toilets as part of the global effort 🌍 to provide safe, hygienic and effective sanitation in regions from India to Mars.
2. THIS FUTURISTIC PUBLIC TOILET IN SHIBUYA IS COMPLETELY HANDS-FREE 👋
This new, dome-shaped restroom is part of the Tokyo Toilet project, a line-up of stylish restrooms designed ✍️ by some of Japan’s best ARCHITECTS and creative minds 🤯. This one is the brainchild of Kazoo Sato, chief creative officer at advertising agency TBWA/Hakuhodo.
3. TOILETS OF THE FUTURE COULD PROTECT YOUR HEALTH 🩺
Smart TOILETS 🤖 present challenges for those trying to develop and market them, including making them reliable and easy to use — and finding a way to connect with consumers 🧍 who might find such a product intrusive.
4. A BRIEF HISTORY 📜 OF TOILETS
Explore the history of the toilet 🔎 and how waste management has evolved from ancient Mesopotamia to the modern day. 📣 A TED-Ed by Francis de los Reyes, directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio.
5. TOILET ARCHITECTURE 🚽
Toilet is technology. More precisely, it is a pipe that has been shaped into a piece of FURNITURE 🛋️ so it can be occupied. It is the space where the hidden interior of the body comes into intimate contact with the hidden interior of the building, two plumbing systems 🔧 temporarily connected.
6. TOILET MADE FROM WOOD CHIPS 🪓
Finnish design company Woodio has created a TOILET, where everything from the seat to the bowl is formed ⚒️ from wood composite that reportedly generates 99% fewer emissions in its production 🏭 than ceramics.
7. CAN ARCHITECTS DESIGN A SOLUTION TO THE RESTROOM 🤔
Innovative public washrooms from the Tokyo TOILET Project 🧻 demonstrate how design-based solutions can make these spaces safer and more sanitary 🧼.
Stay creative and see you all next week! 👋
Daniela
