11/8/2022 0 Comments Privatus latin meaning![]() Young women, particularly in areas of India, are exposed to sexual violence at nighttime due to lack of private spaces for daytime excretion. By composting waste onsite, the collection process is much safer and the end product usable sooner. Port-O-Potty toilets widely used for public events, parks, and construction sites rely on toxic chemicals and regular removal of the waste which requires sanitizing processes at a facility. Human waste or “night soil”, once valued and collected for use as fertilizer, is still removed by hand from toilet pits in poorer areas of the world. Thus, while we reimagine the mouldering privy, we also illustrate the object of the mouldering privy to help those who misunderstand it or who need to visualize it is a place of beauty and safety. By situating it within biogeochemical, ,geographical, historical, psychological and social context, we imagine it as agent of change. ![]() Privy comes from Latin, privatus, meaning “private.”īy composting waste with carbon bulking agents such as fine wood chips or dried leaves, mouldering privies overcome multiple challenges, yet they are still relatively unknown or distasteful to most. Our case study is a mouldering privy in Hubbard Park, Montpelier, Vermont designed by faculty Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and Bill Bialosky, and their students at the Yestermorrow Design School in Waitsfield, Vermont. We are liberating the conventional perception of the back-country toilet, through literal and imaginative documentary design, exploring how the object is related to its environment and how it is experienced. ![]()
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