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Blue toilet wins 3rd place of the People's Vote - Designs of the Year 2015
2016-04-13 Visitors to Designs of the Year 2015 of the Design Museum London were invited to vote for their favourite project. The 3rd place (1,864 votes) goes to the Blue Diversion Toilet, a sanitation system for those who are off the grid, designed by EOOS, Austria with Eawag, Switzerland. The Blue Diversion toilet was exhibited in the Museum from March 2015 to March 2016. Find more about the current exhibitions of the toilet here. |
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Blue Diversion published on the Impact Journalism Day
2015-06-20 Sparknews invites the world’s leading newspapers to come together and share stories of hope, change and innovation. On the same day, they publish supplements dedicated to creative and concrete solutions to global issues. On the 20th of June 2015, Impact Journalism Day brought together 50 leading newspapers to share 101 stories with 120 million readers. Blue Diversion was featured in 8 newspapers - El Watan (Algeria), Le soir (Belgium), L'Orient le Jour (Lebanon), Le Courrier de Russie (Russia), Straits Times (Singapore), La Regione (Switzerland), La Tribune de Genève (Switzerland) and China Post. |
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London's Design Museum displays the Blue Toilet
2015-05-15 The Blue Toilet is part of the current “Designs of the Year 2015” exhibit at London’s Design Museum. This exhibit highlights the most innovative, interesting and forward-looking design of all kinds, from around the world. In its 8th year, 76 nominees were nominated within over six categories . We are not among the winners but anyway proud to present the toilet in one of the most outstanding design museums in the world. Moreover the toilet is in the 3rd place of the visitors most liked displays. It can be visited in London from March 25th 2015 to March 31th 2016. |
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Blue
Diverson exhibited in Vienna
2015-01-28 Come and visit the Blue Diversion toilet in Vienna, Austria, in the designforum - Design Discourse Austria-South Africa - from the 30.01.-08.03.2015 and in the Design Labor of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) from the 28.01.-17.05.2015. The MAK DESIGN LAB is a recent design project by EOOS, the designers that are responsible for `the look´ of the blue toilet. The lab is both showcase and exhibition and provides the context for this retrospective show laid out in the form of a narrative `parcourse´ of exhibits. |
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Blue Diversion wins prestigious IWA Award
2014-30-09 The International Water Association IWA announced the winners of the IWA 2014 Global Project Innovation Awards. Blue Diversion by Eawag and EOOS, supported by Tribecraft is the recipient of the Global Honour Award in the Applied Research category. Find more in Awards... |
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Presentation of the Blue Diversion Concept at the 3rd UNESCO Tech4Development Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland
2014-06-04 Tove Larsen, the Blue Diversion project leader, will give the conference presentation "Sanitation Innovation for Urban Slums: the Blue Diversion Toilet" at the 3rd UNESCO Tech4Development Conference on the key question "What is Essential?", taking place in Lausanne between June 4th - 6th, 2014. |
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Exhibition: The Blue Diversion Toilet at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2014-05-23 The Blue Diversion Toilet will be exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, entitled Fundamentals, directed by Rem Koolhaas and organized by la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta. Fundamentals consists of three interlocking exhibitions - Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, Elements of Architecture and Monditalia – that together illuminate the past, present and future of architecture. The Blue Diversion Toilet will be showcased in Elements of Architecture. This exhibition, located in the Central Pavilion, will pay close attention to the fundamentals of buildings, used by any architect, anywhere, anytime: the floor, the wall, the ceiling, the roof, the door, the window, the façade, the balcony, the corridor, the fireplace,… and the toilet. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 7 through November 23, 2014, in the Giardini and the Arsenale. Read Christoph Lüthi's blog post about his visit to la Biennale |
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Publication: A Collection of Contemporary Toilet Designs
2014-05-19 We are happy to announce that Loughborough University published parts of EOOS documentation of contemporary toilet designs. To download your free copy of "A Collection of Contemporary Toilet Designs" click here. Alongside the RTTC, EOOS had started to collect information relating to the design of its Blue Diversion Toilet as well as other toilet designs. The information was initially gathered together in a research log, which, although not a project with an encyclopaedic scientific focus, provided insight into new and innovative ways of addressing global sanitation issues. |
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The Blue Diversion Toilet well received at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in India
2014-04-11 „It was a success“, says Christoph Lüthi, Blue Diversion deputy project leader, after returning home from India. “Our convincing presence at the Fair marked an important milestone on our way to further developing and industrializing the Blue Diversion Toilet.” Read more... See also: Facebook photo gallery by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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Reinvent the Toilet Fair: India
2014-03-24 The Blue Diversion Toilet was exhibited at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair: India. It was a great opportunity for Gates Foundation grantees and partners to showcase RTTC prototypes to industry leaders, government officials, members of civil society and other partners from around the world, and to share knowledge in this field and learn from one another. See Eberhard Morgenroth giving a short presentation at the fair |
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Gallery exhibition Empower Shack
2014-02-15 An ETH Zurich & Urban-Think Tank project on South Africa presents the Blue Diversion Toilet in the Gallery Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, Limmatstrasse 270. The exhibition takes place from February 15 to April 19, 2014. For more information please see: Gallery Eva Presenhuber, Empower Shack |
