Courtesy of RMIT Students

Toilet Stories Past Event

Presented by RMIT Interior Design

Dates

Thu 23 May 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Opening Event
Thu 23 May 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 24 May 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 24 May 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Tickets

Free, No Booking Required

Venue

Testing Ground - Emporium
432 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia

Access

Assistance animals welcome, Seating available, Wheelchair accessible
Toilet Stories is a student-based interior design project and global design pedagogy collaboration between RMIT University, University of the Arts London, and Toronto Metropolitan University.
Toilets are often profoundly intimate spaces. Instrumental in how we present to the world, they are as much facilitators of subjectivity and self-expression as our closets. Yet, their interior planning often expresses heterosexist binary ideologies that conflict with how we may typically understand our subjectivity and its production.
Interior design students from all three universities explored toilet interiors in relation to public space, culture, sexuality, and politics. Students developed tactics in narrative, decoration and subversion to explore ways of queering the interior design of toilets. The project aims to generate an expansive conversation on this interior typology by addressing contemporary issues around gender, sexuality, utility, cleanliness, and class within the discipline of interior design.
This exhibition showcases projects from interior design students from three cities—Melbourne, London, and Toronto—with varying conditions and concerns about public toilets. The collection will travel to the three cities as part of the Design Week festival program in each city throughout 2024.

Participants

Nick Rebstadt

Nick Rebstadt is a designer and researcher interested, desire, time, and contemporary cultures. Current research includes queering chrononormative structures of designing, designer subjectivity, vibes, consumer cultures, design writing and public toilet interiors. He teaches casually in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) at RMIT University.

RMIT Students

Ashleigh Thompson
Daisy Nicholls
Declan Schipper
Em Shoesmith
Francesca Charlwood
Gaea Balano
Gianna Ritch
Harrison McTavish
Joshua Douglas
Linlu He
Malka Yota
Zahra Ahmadi


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