Designer Miles Pennington – professor of design-led innovation at the University of Tokyo – and DLX Design Lab have developed a multifunctional public bathroom in Tokyo, Japan. A space that lends itself to different uses, becoming a place for exhibitions, a cinema, a pop-up kiosk, an information centre that puts citizenship at the centre and aims to enhance the very idea of a public toilet.

“Public toilets are often underused, lose their value to people and are gradually forgotten. To try to reverse this trend, we created this toilet”.

– Pennington said.

Conceived as part of the Tokyo Toilet initiative promoted by the non-profit Nippon Foundation, the project is one of 17 public toilets around the city, some of them designed by Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando and Fumiko Maki.

 

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Author Francesca Grillo

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