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- | Toilets have been a source of taboo, embarrassment and humour in many cultures. This project explores the subject of toilets and defecation and aims to bring it out in the open. The intent is to create | + | |
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- | It has three main purposes: | + | |
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- | First is public awareness and education. The focus is to break the taboo associated with toilets and make it a mainstream discussion. | + | |
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- | Second is to create a long term revenue stream for the people/ | + | |
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- | Third is to act like a catalyst and trigger a sustainable sanitation movement for the 2.6 billion people globally who do not have access to proper sanitation. It would also act like an informal backdrop to lobby for a pro-sanitation movement through its franchise outlets globally. | + | |
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- | • //brief summary of the cultural, scientific and social context within which the research took place// | + | |
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- | The research started in New Delhi, India and proceeded through follow up exchanges between the design consultant, Sanjeev Shankar; the producer, FoAM, represented by Maja Kuzmanovic and the client, World Toilet Organisation, | + | |
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- | Singapore is a successful model of rapid growth and transformation in Asia. A dynamic and vibrant city, it is also the home of the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) and the World Toilet College (WTC). WTO is a non-profit organization, | + | |
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- | With its strong economic position, Singapore has often been an attractive place for testing ideas in Asia. Demographically, | + | |
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- | The research has had a global vision. It looks at the taboo associated with sanitation at two levels. First and more importantly, | + | |
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- | On the other hand the research also explores ways and means to make the sanitation system in the developed world more efficient and sustainable. This has become a growing concern globally with depletion of water resources which is a top priority for most governments. | + | |
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- | Though, there have been efforts to address the issue of sanitation, a lot of these are plagued by the nature of this topic and the hesitation to discuss it in the open. This has been observed and discussed with the director of WTO who has witnessed this attitude in varying degrees across different sections of societies in different cultures. The thrust of this research and thereby this project is to use a different approach: an informal, unusual method to raise awareness about sanitation in a well planned, refreshing and strategic manner and thereby direct the benefits arising out of this to improve the situation globally. | + | |
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- | This work explores issues of sanitation, food and hygiene, sustainability and social enterprise. In addition to exploring informal ways in which this subject has been tackled in the past, the work also explores innovative methods of funding and hopes to improvise by creating a business model based on bringing people and companies with common interests together. It further holds great potential to create a precedent for businesses globally to become more ecologically sustainable, | + | |
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- | Some of the projects which have dealt with similar fields of inquiry are discussed below: | + | |
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- | (1)**Sulabh Toilet Museum**// | + | |
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- | It has been established with the following objectives: | + | |
- | (a)To provide information to researchers about the design, materials, and technologies adopted in the past and those in use in the contemporary world; | + | |
- | (b)To educate students about the historical trends in the development of toilets; | + | |
- | (c)To help policy makers to understand the efforts made by predecessors in this field throughout the world; | + | |
- | (d)To help the manufacturers of toilet equipment and accessories in improving their products by functioning as a technology storehouse; and | + | |
- | (e)To help sanitation experts learn from the past and solve problems in the sanitation sector. | + | |
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