Pee-Pee
Michał Drożdż

The Project, which allowed design students to work closely with the ceramic giant Duravit, brought forward a few very interesting designs. The task was code-named 'Pee-Pee', referring to the act of urinating in a very childish way. This approach allowed the students to investigate the otherwise overlooked 'act' with an open-mind.

One of the notable designs is the 'unipi'. Here, Yvonne Fehling and Anna Schreier have focused on the basic urinal, which they gave a very elegant (for such an object) and smooth form. Although the 'Pee-tree' is most interesting, a design by Joa Herrenknecht. The general idea of urinating under a tree isn't anything new, but putting a tree in a public toilet makes us smile. A simmilar idea, which places a seemingly incompatible object in this space is Vincent Boureau's 'Pissohr' Translation? The 'piss-ear'.

The only idea which I don't quite comprehend is the 'Heimscheisser'. Why did Kilian Schindler and Nikoletta Ververidou call this redesigned turkish toilet - 'domestic'? Personally, I don't find the descriptions on the author's project website convincing.

Of course all these designs have great functional aspects, apart from a strange name and form. Also, the graphics that accompany the project resemble the ones left on the walls of public toilets. Overall, it's really worth a look at how young Germans perceive and interpret today's toilets.