Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2023]
©2023

Description:

109 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 30 cm.

Series:

Column ; Issue 1 (2023)

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.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9783959055833 (paperback)
3959055838 (paperback)

Subject:

Toilets Design and construction Congresses.
Bathrooms Design and construction Congresses.
Bathrooms Design and construction.
Toilets Design and construction.

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Fernández Contreras, Javier, 1982- editor.
Zancan, Roberto, editor.
Haute école d'art et de design (Geneva, Switzerland), host institution.
Intimacy Exposed: Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom (2018 : Geneva, Switzerland),

Toilet, bathroom, restroom

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317694
Call No.: 317694
Copy: 1
Status: Available