Designing Inclusive Public Toilets
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-34604-8 (ISBN)
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Public toilets are a vital element of public health infrastructure and an area of the built environment that everyone would use, if they could. Drawing from a rich body of research into toilet design, public services, accessibility and social injustice, Jo-Anne Bichard and Gail Ramster explore the complexities around using these facilities and examine a diverse array of design considerations related to age, disability, neurodiversity and gender. The authors look at the development of toilet design in the UK, discussing examples of successful and failed designs, and present an innovative approach for the future that reframes a space associated with unpleasantness and inaccessibility as one that is essential and respected.
This rigorous study takes into consideration the body’s needs and decision making on leaving home, issues of navigating, locating and entering facilities, and issues related to cubicles, fixtures, products and hygiene. The authors present an inclusive design approach that can help designers, planners and managers create these spaces more effectively and understand what every prospective user might need, with a sense of safety, comfort and dignity.
Jo-Anne Bichard is Professor of Accessible Design in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is a design anthropologist and has undertaken two of the UK's largest empirical studies on inclusive design and public toilets, focusing on design's success and/or failure to meet users' needs for physical access as well as safety and dignity. Gail Ramster is Senior Research Associate in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is a design researcher focused on people-centered and co-design approaches addressing social challenges. Her research has encompassed service and urban design, digitial applications and public toilet design.
1. Introduction
- Where Nature Meets Culture
- Everyone Goes
- Choices
- A Triptych of Design
- Inclusive Design
2. The History of Public Toilet Provision in the UK
- Popular Perspectives and their Legacies
- Academic Perspectives and their Legacies
- Practice Perspectives and their Legacies
- Other Uses of Toilets
3. The Journey
- The Body’s Needs
- The Mind’s Needs
- Leaving Home
- Navigating with Design
- Decision Making
4. Finding a Toilet
- Safety and Security
- Is it Clean?
- Can I Access it?
- Not Having a Choice
5. Crossing the Threshold
- Entering the Space
- The Toilet Queue
- Which Cubicle?
- Which Urinal?
- What about the Children?
6. Closing the Door
- Hinges
- Handles
- Hygiene
7. Sit, Stand or Squat
- WC Pans
- Urinals
- Squatting Toilets
8. Badness be Gone
- Toilet Paper
- Water Hygiene
- Flushing
- Bins
9. Health, Hygiene and Happiness
- Leaving the Cubicle
- Washing Hands
- Drying Hands
- Amenities and Products
10. Conclusion
- Future Toilets
- Inclusive Design
- Sustainable Design
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.6.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 141 colour images |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-34604-7 / 1350346047 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-34604-8 / 9781350346048 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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